28 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2010/2027(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. convinced that a humane, sustainable society is necessarily based on the principle of justice and responsible solidarity between the generations,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. convinced that demographic change is properly manageable only in the long term and only if it is properly anticipated and taken seriously by everyone,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Member States possess the main instruments for promoting justice between the generations (in the form of pension systems and, healthcare provision and complex rehabilitation) but the EU can take important initiatives based on monitoring, exchanges of best practice and action programmes,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Defines justice between the generations as an even, reasonable intergenerational sharing of advantages and burdens;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Argues that functional cooperation between the generations depends on the basic values of freedom, solidarity and, justice and selfless support for the next generation and that it must be informed by mutual respect, responsibility and a willingness to care for one another, as well as by individual planning for the future, including increased commitment to behaviour based on health prevention;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it important to make clear that older people, even if they have a disability, are not a burden on the economy and society, but rather – through their experience, their achievements and, their knowledge – and their greater loyalty to their place of work – a dependable asset;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to present the current trends in the rate of dependency, dramatically decreasing fertility and difficulty of access to expensive artificial insemination for the citizens of the Member States (including the relevant labour market regulations) separately, as well as the financial consequences of these procedures, in order to help existing generations plan their life strategy;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is convinced that open and equitable access to educational opportunities and job markets must be a core feature of policy- making for justice between the generations and that it lays the foundations for prosperity and, independence and sustainability;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises that work means more than just paid employment and that older people contribute substantially, through their work at family and community level, to making our society more humane and improving the stability of services and workplaces, and encourages governments to facilitate voluntary work, local community-building and family care and to resolve issues of legal responsibility in that regard without delay;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that unbalanced measures to reduce the age of a workforce will result not in a higher level of innovation but, on the contrary, in a waste of experience, knowledge and skills, particularly where training older people is better compensated by their remaining longer in the same jobs;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Deplores the fact that people’s patterns of employment are becoming increasingly uneven and insecure as a result of temporary work, the growth of short-term contracts, marginal employment and unemployment, and that the majority of jobs are difficult for older people to access;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is convinced that flexisecurity can ease the transitions between the various stages of people’s working lives, provided that it is based on solidarity between the generations and takes the concerndifferent demands and needs of all age groups into account;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that demographic change should not be advanced as a justification for the general dismantling of social entitlements and services, and that these entitlements and services must be balanced with regard to both active and inactive generations;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 17 – point iv a (new)
iva) supporting the (re)integration, based on a new approach of complex rehabilitation that takes equal account of the biological and physical environment, of older people who become disabled, rather than classifying them as ‘disabled’;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Argues that older people’s employability depends on initiatives on the part of employers in the fields of health, further training, work patterns, job satisfaction und management behaviour, as well as a guarantee of reasonable accommodation, consistent with the provisions of Directive 2000/78/EC, in the field of accessibility, and that such initiatives should be devised jointly by the social partners;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for specific initiatives to promote mixed-age teams for work processes and suggests that companies taking such initiatives should be supported and that outstanding projects should receive recognition, highlighting how the varying distribution of generations increases competitiveness and harmonious growth;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Is convinced that it must be up to the workers concerned to decide for how long they wish to remain in work beyond national retirement ages, including deciding whether they would prefer to contribute to solidarity in society and between the generations by bringing up children once their working lives are over;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Council and the Member States to conduct an impartial review of upper age limits and disabilities for certain jobs and posts and for eligibility for funding and concluding insurance policies, no later than 2012, and to do away with such limits;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to conduct a review of activities related to healthy ageing and to present an action plan in 2011 for enhancing older people’s dignity, health and quality of life, highlighting in particular the health risks for people who suddenly cease being active;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Is convinced that one of the main objectives of the Year of Volunteering might be for volunteering to play a much- needed part in supporting child-minding as an aid to younger generations in local communities;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Takes the view that tapping into new markets in the ‘silver economy’ offers a major opportunity for improving competitiveness and innovative potential and, for boosting growth and employment and for increasing volunteering;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Member States to put in place framework conditions, and particularly to take innovative and barrier- free measures, that reflect differing regional conditions in this regard;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Underscores the fact that consolidating public budgets and effective debt reduction are matters of justice between the generations, and that there must be a sense of responsibility towards the interests of future generations;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Underlines that decreasing the expected and continually increasing burden on future generations is a fundamental priority, given the dramatic increase in the proportion of people over 80 (the very elderly);
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Calls on the Commission to draw up a complex study on this issue which includes an examination of the expected dependency rate, productivity, willingness and ability to make savings, the burdens on families in employment deciding to have children, the (deterioration in) fertility among younger people and the budgetary consequences of immigration;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Is convinced that a sense of identification, participation on an equal footing in accordance with democratic traditions and fundamental constitutional values, participation based on equal opportunities and responsibility are prerequisites for successful integration and that integration can work only where immigrants are prepared to adapt and locals are receptive;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls attention to the severe regional imbalances apparent in terms of demographic change, and the fact that it sets in train processes of migration away from rural and peripheral regions, with the result that structural transformations in social and health care must be envisaged, funding must be made available for them and an intensive exchange of best practices and those which support developments and services based on modern information and communications technologies must be undertaken;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Points out that demographic change and the consequences thereof have a different effect on the western and eastern parts of the EU and that a common policy ensuring balanced growth and sustainable regional development is needed;