Activities of Silvia COSTA related to 2017/2279(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union: the 7th report of the European Commission
Amendments (10)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Deplores the fact that, in what is the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the Commission report disregards culture and fails to highlight, by providing a breakdown by sector, the investments made by the Member States and regions in this area;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to include culture and education among the priority and strategic objectives for the next programming period, as both areas of focus and horizontal dimensions of regional development policies;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for steps to be taken, in the next programming period, to identify specific measures concerning and to set aside resources for physical infrastructure, such as incubators, digital infrastructure, such as broad band, and intangible infrastructure, for educational, cultural and research bodies, including in connection with measures to enhance energy efficiency;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to reduce the causes of growing educational and social inequality, with a particular emphasis on early school leavers, ongoing training for adults and apprenticeships and training to foster the social inclusion of migrants, in all areas of education and training, including through the provision of scholarships and support services;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in the light of the significant successes achieved by the network of European regions, which has included culture and the cultural and creative industries in the smart specialisation strands of their operational programmes, to continue and step up these policies;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support knowledge partnerships between universities, educational, professional and research bodies and cultural institutes in an effort to meet the growing need for new skills and for retraining in the cultural and creative sector;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for greater theoretical and practical scope to offered for medium- and long-term projects in the cultural, audiovisual and creative sphere, by making provision for the combined use of the Structural Funds and the EFSI;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for cohesion policy measures to place greater emphasis on investment in the cultural and education sectors, in particular in urban and outlying areas, through the use of retraining and inclusion tools;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Urges the Member States to set aside a share of cohesion policy funding for high-quality cultural and education projects which, although suitable, do not receive EU support owing to a lack of funding;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Calls on the Member States to support these integrated territorial cultural projects, such as cultural itineraries, which foster high-quality territorial development, and public-private partnerships in the area of cultural tourism;