6 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to devise innovative measures to combat poverty aimed at women whose position is vulnerable, in particular immigrant women, women on their own and women with large families;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that European Social Fund support should continue to focus primarily on raising employment levels, including by cofunding individual economic initiatives by people outside the labour market, includingparticularly women over the age of 45;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make provision for specific measures involving existing resources and procedures - for example guarantee funds - to launch micro-financing and micro- credit initiatives geared mainly to women;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the Commission in its reform of the cohesion policy, including by concentrating funding on a smaller number of priorities, with targeted measures and strategic objectives, on condition that gender equality in the labour market remains an ongoing priority;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to urge the Member States to set specific objectives for European mobility, education, training and the development of professional opportunities for women, in the sector devoted to transnational projects under the European Social Fund;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to lay down guidelines for using the European Social Fund in a way which will ensure that young women's specialist skills and abilities are improved in those sectors in which they have less of a presence, in keeping with the strategy for regional development of innovation and quality employment;