6 Amendments of Emma McCLARKIN related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the current education, youth, media and culture funding programmes can generate European added value by pooling resources and enhancing cooperation; notes that they can correspond closely to the needs of the sectors concerned, have high implementation rates and produce noticeable leverage and spill- over effects;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that one of the five goals of Europe 2020 headline targets is to reduce the share of early school leavers to less than 10% and increase the share of the younger generation with a degree or diploma to at least 40%; underlines that education, training and youth mobility are essential for creating and safeguarding jobs and reducing poverty, and are thus crucial for both Europe's short-term recovery and its longer-term growth and productivity; takes the view that EU programmes play an important role in steering national policies in the direction agreed at inter- governmental level, and towards the targetaims of the Europe 2020 strategy; recalls that EU policy initiatives havecan helped to modernise education and training policies and institutions within thsome Member States;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of the cultural, creative and media sectors in achieving the Europe 2020 targets relating to employment, productivity and social cohesion; notes that, beyond their direct contribution to GDP, these industries have a positive spill-over effect on other sectors of the economy such as tourism and digital technologies; takes the view that EU policy initiatives and programmes in these areas have demonstrable ‘European added value’;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that the Europe for Citizens programme supports European civic participation through transnational cooperation projects (such as town- twinning partnerships) and thereby contributes to the development of active European citizenshipa greater understanding of different cultures throughout Europe;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that EU education, youth, media and culture programmes are sometimes successful in that they enjoy high implementation rates and generate clear European added value, and believes that there are good arguments for increasing the resources devoted to them; underlines the importance of linking the allocation of resources more closely to take-uphowever, given the current economic climate, the resources devoted to them should not be increased unless commensurate reductions are made elsewhere in the EU budget; notes that if a programme cannot be achieved at Member State level, if it offers added value, and if it is value for money, it could be envisaged that resources allocated to the programme are taken from the current margins of the EU budget;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that in the current economic climate, with Member States throughout the EU engaging in substantial austerity measures, the overall EU budget should be frozen at its current level for the period of the next Multiannual Financial Framework;