8 Amendments of Thomas HÄNDEL related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission’s fifth report on economic, social and territorial cohesion, which proposes directions that policy in this area might take in the future, in particular, linking it to the Europe 2020 strategy, with a common strategic framework which would translate the Europe 2020 objectives into investment priorities; stresses that cohesion policy is a horizontally-aligned policy which is enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and is not secondary to the Europe 2020 strategy; underlines that an autonomous cohesion policy is essential for reducing discrepancies in regional development and achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Rejects the imposition of conditions on the payment of structural funds – particularly the ESF – for implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy or other EU policies;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Approves the intention of developing new macro-regional strategies for the necessary social and ecological reconstruction of the EU and calls for steps to be taken to identify and combat regional disparities, such as in access to employment and educationpoverty and social exclusion, access to high-quality employment, reducing the average time spent working on a weekly and lifelong basis, education and free access to high- quality services;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the fact that the ESF provides crucial support for employment market and social policies and plays an important part in boosting social inclusion and therefore calls for a significant increase in the funds available to the ESF;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the effectiveness of the ESF to be increased through more results-oriented action and to this end considers that ex ante setting of clear and measurable targets and outcome indicators is neededwhich measure, in particular, success in the fight against poverty and social exclusion and integration in high-quality employment is needed; stresses that result-orientation must not lead to small promoters being disadvantaged or exposed either to new barriers to access or to risks;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to improve the visibility of ESF action and to make the ESF more accessible and capable of providing more support for integration into the job market, particularly by setting up lifelong training to help workers adapt their skills to the needs of the job marketprogrammes which offer workers access to high-quality employment and thus help to eliminate the phenomenon of the ‘working poor’;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for full account to be taken of the experience of the social partners, in particular the trade unions, and social NGOs and for formal steps to draw on that experience to be made compulsory at all stages of the planning, implementation and assessment of the ESF and the other Structural Funds;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to simplify procedures and reduce excessive administrative costs and the number of otherin general to eliminate obstacles to achieving the EU’s objectives for growth and job creation.objectives in the area of social cohesion between the regions of the EU, such as the bias in EU policies towards growth and competition, austerity measures which involve the dismantling of established social rights, increases in the retirement age, longer working weeks and working lives, labour market deregulation and the abolition of social protection and wealth redistribution systems;