38 Amendments of Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL related to 2017/2259(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas education, and intercultural dialogue in particular, have a key role to play in preventing the radicalisation of young people and increasing their resilience;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas young people should be actively involved in the planning, development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of all youth policies impacting young people;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the 2010-18 EU Youth Strategy (EYS) emphasises the need for a structured dialogue between young people and decision makers;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas young people should be helped and empowered to address the serious problems they are currently facing and to tackle the challenges they will face in the future through more relevant, effective and better coordinated youth policies, improved and accessible education and the targeted use of economic, employment and social policies at local, regional, national and EU levels;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas young people are often subject to age based discrimination in accessing the labour market, as many employers are not willing to invest in inexperienced workers, and minimum wages are still a reality for many young Europeans in several Member States;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is a need to mainstream EU action in the field of youth through the inclusion of a youth dimension in current and future planolicies and funding programmes;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas there is a need for a coordination of the implementation of the future EYS across different policy sectors and institutions;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas a gender perspective must be included in decision-making on youth policies which takes into account the specific challenges and circumstances faced by young women and girls in particular; whereas specific gender- sensitive measures should be included in youth policy such as prevention of violence against women and girls, education on gender equality and sex education;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the positive achievements of the EYS though the development of cross-sector work and the implementation of structured dialogue in order to ensure the participation of young people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into account the results of the VI Cycle of the Structured Dialogue that focuses on the future EU Youth Strategy when developing the new strategy;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Commission to establish a cross-sectoral working group for coordination of future EYS implementation with participation of EU institutions, including the European Parliament, Member States and civil society, in particular trade unions and youth organisations;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to set-up effective inter-service coordination tools and to assign the responsibility for youth mainstreaming as a cluster to a vice- president in the European Commission;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Member States to use the European Pillar of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 as a basis for drafting legislation for young people;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that the EU should express solidarity with young people and continue to empower them to participate in society, primarily by mainstreaming volunteering, supporting youth work and developing new tools; The increased social participation of young people can, apart from being an important achievement in its own right, act as a stepping stone towards increased political participation;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Strongly urges the Commission and the Member States to encourage young people, including the most disadvantaged, to pursue a participatory approach to life, by using online and offline democracy tools and by involving the relevant stakeholders, such as social partners, civil society and youth organisations, in the development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of youth policies;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses the need to continue the structured dialogue between young people and decision-makers under the next European cooperation framework in the field of youth; believes that the structured dialogue process should be systematically reaching out to more and diverse groups of young people, and sufficient financial support for national and European working groups should be provided to ensure it; calls on the Member States to encourage participation of national, regional and local decision-makers in the structured dialogue with young people;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage regional and local authorities to ensure that young people are able to fully participate and be involved in decision-making, since engagement starts usually at the level that is closest to them and is therefore also a crucial step towards increased European citizenship;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on Member States to incorporate the youth national councils in the Monitoring and Implementation Committees of the EU Youth Strategy;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the potential of technologies for connecting with young people and calls on the EU to strengthen their capacity to participate in the society through e-platforms;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines the importance of national, regional and local authorities to adopt tailored measures and to provide personalised support in order to reach all NEETs; recalls the need to involve local stakeholders such as social partners, trade unions, civil society, youth organisations;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Argues that special measures should be taken in order to tackle the precarious situation of young women workers in the labour market, with special attention to the gender pay gap and their over-representation in atypical forms of employment which lack social protection;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Underlines the need to promote fair working conditions fair working conditions and adequate social protection to workers in the so-called new forms of employment where young people are overrepresented;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Also, measures should be taken to integrate young migrants (irrespective of their legal status as refugees or economic migrants) in the labour market in full respect of the principle of equal treatment;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the fact that YEI measures have provided support for more than 1.6 million young people26 ;reiterates its support for the YEI to tackle youth unemployment and stresses that more efforts and financial commitments are necessary; emphasises the need to improve the quality of offers under the Youth Guarantee; _________________ 26 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDo c.do?pubRef=- //EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A8-2017- 0406+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that measures that foster the integration of NEETsyoung people not in employment, education or training into the labour market, including paid internships, traineeships or apprenticeships, must be financially supported by the YEI, but should not be used as a way to substitute employment;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that 38% of young people have difficult access of information; highlights the fact the importance to ensure a collective approach to guiding, supporting and informing young people about their rights and opportunities;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Underlines the importance of modernising education; calls on the Commission and the Member States to stimulate the inclusion of new skills and competences in education, such as critical thinking and entrepreneurial spirit; and to promote the development of new educational tools that increase the participation in and the accessibility to education;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is deeply concerned at the particularly acute problem of child poverty, with which up to 25 million children in the EU (more than 26.4 % of all Europeans aged 0-17) from families that are suffering every day from a lack of sufficient income and basic services, are afflicted; calls on the Commission to develop a Child Guarantee as a long-term tool to offer equal opportunities for all children in the EU under its specific fund scheme to ensure that every child in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Underlines the negative impact of stress on young people well-being in the labour market as well as in the personal life; calls the Commission and Member States to invest in healthy, environmental programmes as well as to encourage relevant actors to help Young people in this respect;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Underlines the importance of ensuring mental and physical wellbeing of young Europeans; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote sportive activities in and extra curricula and to sensibilize them through nutrition campaign;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Underlines the importance of promoting intercultural dialogue in sport and by creating platforms involving young people and refugees, migrants;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Emphasises that youth organisations play a crucial role for young peoples’ participation and inclusion in society; Therefore calls on the Member States to support youth organisations and recognise their role as providers of competences development and social inclusion, and support the establishment of youth councils on all levels, working together with young people;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Stresses the importance of non- formal and informal learning, and quality youth work development as it is essential for the development of a society based on social justice and equal opportunities, and contribute to development of citizenship skills and individual fulfilment;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Calls on the Member States to continue efforts to implement a national recognition and validation system for competences acquired through non- formal education activities, recalling the Council recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Urges Member States and the Commission to increase public investment in education and youth related issues;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Highlights the importance of Erasmus+: an essential tool to create active and committed young citizens; strongly believes that Erasmus+ should target all young people and that the greater aspirations for the next Erasmus+ programming period must be matched by significant additional funding to unlock the programme’s full potential, namely an ten- fold increased in budget;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls for a better alignment between the EU Youth Strategy and Erasmus+, aligning the timeframes for implementation, amending the Erasmus + Regulation to clearly support the objectives of the Strategy through common “youth goals” and defining Key Action 3 as the Strategy’s main implementation tools;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Stresses that the YEI budget is not sufficient to ensure that the programme reaches its targets; calls, therefore, for a significant increase in the YEI allocation under the next MFFthe YEI allocation to be at least doubled in the next MFF, to support a better, large-scale, and fmor thee efficient implementation of the Youth Guarantee; urges Member States to make provisions for youth employment schemes in their national budgets;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Encourages the promotion of using of the future EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for the development of integrated, evidence-based responses, intervention and prevention solutions that promote the well-being and resilience of youth;