2015/2330(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 c (new)

- Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015),

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas the demographic change the EU is facing depends on other factors apart from the ageing of population, such as density population or dispersed population

Amendment 102 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas the growing number of dependent older people has and will have an increasing impact on health and long term care systems, the need for both formal as well as informal care resources; and whereas current social security systems do not take sufficient account of the situation of informal carers, which constitute a huge resource to society;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas public ~~debt remains too high in many Member States (the highest figures being for Greece at 167.8 % and Italy at 136 %), impeding growth and making the entire Union more vulnerable to crises~~and private indebtness remains too high in in the EU, hampering the European economy strength; whereas, for theses reasons, it is necessary to hold an urgent and thorough debate on the handling of the debt in the EU;

Amendment 104 #

Sven SCHULZE, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas public debt remains too high in many Member States (the highest figures being for Greece at 167.8 % and Italy at 136 %), impeding growth and making the entire Union more vulnerable to crises; whereas asymmetric shocks have hit mainly those Members States most affected by the economic crises, while even other countries are increasingly showing similar symptoms;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas growing public debt remains too high in many Member States (the highest figures being for Greece at 167.8 % and Italy at 136 %), impeding growth and making the entire Union more vulnerable to crises; whereas continued low interest rates in the euro zone should be used for structural reforms by member states before an interest rate reversal becomes inevitable;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas public debt remains too high in many Member States (the highest figures being for Greece at 167.8 % and Italy at 136 %), ~~impeding growth and~~ making the entire Union more vulnerable to crises;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas public debt remains too high in many Member States (the ~~highest figures being for Greece at 167.8 % and Italy at 136 %), impeding~~re are other factors such as the low level of interest rate and the lack of investment in some areas, for instance, affecting sustainable growth and making the entire Union more vulnerable ~~to crises~~;

Amendment 108 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas in the next 10 to 15 years 90 % of the world’s growth will come from outside the EU; whereas it is essential to implement industrial and market policies able to increase the global competitiveness of the EU and therefore guaranteeing sustainable and socially inclusive employment;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas, with the current scenario, in the next 10 to 15 years 90 % of the world’s growth will come from outside the EU therefore it is necessary to rethink the actual growth and employment creation strategy in the EU;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 d (new)

- - Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. Whereas 20 % of European Social Fund expenditure should be used to address poverty and social exclusion in the Member States

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) has already approved 69 projects in 18 countries, and signed 56 operations (with total financing under EFSI of around EUR 1.4 billion ), and this is expected to lead to more than 22 EUR billion in investment and to involve around 71 000 SMEs; whereas these projects involve mostly great infrastructure, while SMEs and micro-enterprises are usually excluded by these funds in spite of their importance as backbone of European economy and generator of quality jobs;

Amendment 112 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

J a. whereas, despite the Investment Plan, last years total investment has continue to shrink, which might have been caused by the substitutive effect of European investments on those that could had been made by the Member States, and therefore undermining the positive effect that the Juncker Plan could have;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the outermost and poorest regions are facing huge difficulties related to their specific characteristics that limit their potential for growth; whereas the unemployment rates in those regions varies between 15 % and 32.4 %;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas 6.9 million EU citizens exercise their fundamental right to free movement and live and work in another EU country; whereas there are over 1.1 million cross-border or frontier workers;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas it is essential to review the posting of workers Directive in order to tackle social dumping cases;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas the free movement of people is fundamental to enhance convergence between European countries;

Amendment 118 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas the ongoing arrival of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from outside the EU will require both short term actions in terms of immediate social assistance and medium to long term actions to ensure access to employment, housing, education, healthcare and social integration.

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas the increasing inflow of refugees in Europe requires extraordinary efforts by Member States, regional and local authorities in receiving and integrating them into society;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 e (new)

- - Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015)

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)

M b. Whereas evidence points to an increase in homelessness across the EU; whereas, according to the latest Eurostat data release, 11.4% of the EU population was confronted in 2014 with housing cost overburden, and the Draft Joint Employment Report clearly identifies housing overburden as one of the key social trends to watch, significantly deteriorating in several countries; and whereas fuel poverty is a major problem for Europe with between 50 and 125 million people unable to afford a proper indoor thermal comfort

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

-1a. Notes the risks highlighted by CEDEFOP concerning the skills mismatch and skills obsolescence; underlines the importance of dual education such as vocational training and apprenticeships in matching the skills of young people with the demands of the labour market.

Amendment 122 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) ~~underlines the need to pay more~~gives attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three ~~social~~headline indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; ~~stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself~~encourages investments in social development in accordance with national customs and traditions as a means of achieving economic growth and employment and social convergence;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new ~~macroeconomic adjustment~~national, stability and reform programmes, adding three ~~social~~employment indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the ~~2016 Alert Mechanism Report~~Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP); notes, however, that the inclusion of these variables into the scoreboard do not have any legal implications or change the focus of the MIP; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; therefore highlights the importance of quality of employment, poverty and inequality indicators and stresses that employment and social considerations should be put on equal footing with the economic ones;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself;

Amendment 125 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; underlines that social and economic cohesion should remain the primary objective of all EU policies;

Amendment 126 #

Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; calls for measures preventing a race to the bottom in terms of taxation and social standards, building on better use of social indicators in macroeconomic surveillance; points to the importance of poverty and inequality indicators in this context; takes note of recent studies by the OECD[1] and the IMF[2] underlining that social inequalities in Europe hamper economic recovery; stresses that more effort is needed to improve the political visibility and impact of the Scoreboard of Key Employment and Social Indicators; calls for the Commission to make sure that Member States with low social performance adequately address the problems of social inequality; welcomes the own initiative opinion of the Social Protection Committee in this context;[3] [1] OECD, 'In it Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits All', 2015. [2] IMF Report 'Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality', June 2015. [3] SPC, 'SPC own-initiatve opinion on monitoring social developments', SPC/2015/10.2 /FIN.

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 128 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. 1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that ~~economic growth~~sustainable and inclusive economic development and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; Supports the Commission's call for investment in services such as housing support, healthcare, childcare, and rehabilitation services; Calls on the Commission to integrate in the MIP scoreboard relevant indicators on housing affordability, and to urge the Member States to monitor and promote access to decent and affordable housing for all;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes,; Deplores that the add~~ing~~ed three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report have no triggering effect and therefore are at risk of not preventing the further dismantling of social standards; calls for the inclusion of social indicators that trigger concrete measures for inclusive growth and the eradication of poverty; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

- Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015)

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; welcomes the Commission's call for investment in services such as housing support, healthcare, childcare, and rehabilitation services;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls for the inclusion of additional social and environmental indicators which should be on at least an equal footing with the rest of the MIP indicators; is of the opinion that such indicators must also be able to trigger corrective action and not merely to 'monitor' the overall socioeconomic situation; insists that excessive unemployment, inequality and poverty are also threatening imbalances for the Eurozone; recalls its repeated requests to adopt indicators regarding resource efficiency, indicators on unit capital costs and other indicators relevant for monitoring progress towards updated EU2020 objectives, including non-cost competitiveness-related indicators in fields such as R&D, education and training

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Welcomes the Commission for, in this AGS, having put social fairness at the heart of European economic recovery; Stresses the EU´s convergence achievements by creating an EMU and calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost for an European social convergence;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that good and quality jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union; urges Member States to implement and increase policies for youth employment by taking into account young people's aspirations and matching these policies with the actual needs of the job market;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~good and quality jobs~~flexible, quality and inclusive jobs available for every person based on skills and experience constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

Amendment 135 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~good and quality~~quality and inclusive jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~good and quality jobs~~quality employment constitutes an essential pillar for social fairness~~, promoting human dignity~~; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

Amendment 137 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~good and quality~~quality and inclusive jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth and for the Generation 50+, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

Amendment 139 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that good and ~~quality~~sustainable jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that good and quality jobs and high social standards constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; believes that in this sense ~~employment and growth~~creating quality employment and ensuring high social standards must be placed at the centre of EU policies, ~~especially~~including for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable and socially just European Union;

Amendment 142 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Note~~Recalls that good and quality jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

Amendment 143 #

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that poverty and social exclusion are still major issues, that the objectives of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion have not been fully met and that good and quality jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU polic~~ies~~y, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union; and promote social cohesion that is needed now more than ever;

Amendment 144 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 145 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. calls on the European Commission to define and quantify its' concept of social fairness, taking into account both employment and social policies, to be achieved through the 2016 Annual Growth Survey and European Semester.

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Is concerned of the effects that brain drain of highly qualified graduates from the EU to more competitive and wealthy economies such as Switzerland, USA and Norway combined with the influx of migrants with lower average qualifications will have on the EU's ability to regain competitiveness and create more high skilled jobs;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Calls on the Commission to engage Member States in strategies and actions to reduce poverty and social exclusion in line with the Europe 2020 strategy.

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions, individualised support services, including the creation of temporal job opportunities even for the less educated people tailored to their skills, and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’ education and training systems to ~~the needs of the labour market~~support access to and retention employment in the open labour market for all people in Europe;

Amendment 149 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, including social economy enterprises, educational institutions and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’ education and training systems to the needs of the labour market, in particular through dual training; calls on Member States to include the culture of entrepreneurship and the social economy principles in their educational and training programs;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)

- Having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2014 on an EU Homelessness Strategy;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions ~~and social partners~~, individualised support services social partners and civil society, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems, including, but not limited to the needs of the labour market;

Amendment 151 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners, with a view to ~~adapt~~better matching Member States’ education and training systems to the needs of the labour market;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners in accordance with national customs and traditions, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to combat skills mis-matches and meeting the needs of the labour market;

Amendment 153 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners, with a view to ~~adapting~~improve Member States’ education and training systems and implement a dual education system to meeto the needs of the labour market;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to ~~fos~~promoter, at Member State level, a broader investment strategy for the full cycle of education and training, encompassing all sectors of lifelong learning, work-based and workplace learning, formal and non- formal learning, and to foster forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners, with a view to ~~adap~~creating ~~Member States’~~inclusive education and training systems ~~to the needs of~~for a successful access to the labour market;

Amendment 155 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions , individualised support services and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to ~~the needs of the labour market~~support access to and retention of employment in the open labour market for all people in Europe;

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster~~, at~~ the exchange of best practice between Member State ~~level,~~s on new forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’ education and training systems to the needs of the labour market;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions, individualised services, civil society and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to the needs of the labour market;

Amendment 158 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. In order to better adapt Member States' education and training systems to the needs of the labour market, calls on the Member States to support apprenticeship and to fully use the ERAMUS + funds available for apprentices in order to guarantee the quality and attractiveness of this kind of training;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes with concern, that data on government spending in education confirm an increasing risk of investment gaps in human capital, including digital skills; Notes further that educational efforts primarily are focused on the younger part of the workforce, however, many countries need a broader focus on educating the workforce including adult education and vocational training opportunities; Underlines that insufficient investments in education, especially in digital skills, poses a threat to Europe's competitive position and to the employability of Europe's work force; encourages therefore Member States to prioritize broad education in digital skills;

Amendment 16 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY

Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)

- Having regards to the fifth and sixth European working conditions survey 2010 and 2015 1 a __________________ 1a http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/europea n-working-conditions-surveys-ewcs

Amendment 160 #

Mara BIZZOTTO, Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Stresses the need to invest in people as early as possible in the life cycle to reduce inequality and foster social inclusion at a young age; calls therefore for access to quality, inclusive and affordable early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for all children in all Member States;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 162 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 163 #

Jeroen LENAERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments in terms of improving the employability of young people; stresses, therefore, the importance of creating a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge, especially those acquired via voluntary activities; coherent certification and mutual recognition of qualifications will contribute to bridge the gap between the skills shortages on the European labour market and young job seekers;

Amendment 164 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments in terms of improving the employability of young people; and people having spent time out of the labour market for caring responsibilities;stresses, therefore, the importance of creating a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge, especially those acquired via voluntary activities;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments in terms of improving the employability of young people; stresses, therefore, the importance of creating a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge, especially those acquired via voluntary activities; insists in the implementation of the lifelong learning framework approach towards a flexible education path recognizing formal, but also non formal and informal learning to foster equity and social cohesion and allowing employment opportunities for more vulnerable groups.;

Amendment 166 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Anthea McINTYRE, Amjad BASHIR, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments in terms of improving the employability of young people; ~~stresses, therefore, the~~calls, therefore, on the Member States to consider the strong social and economic importance of creating a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge and experience, especially those acquired via voluntary activities;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level~~, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services;~~ ; deplores the fact that according to the ECA the youth guarantee has not been effectively implemented in many Member States1 a ; Believes there is a role for the Commission to focus Member States attention on the need for action and to facilitate the exchange of best-practice on how best to combat youth unemployment; __________________ 1a http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocu ments/SR15_03/SR15_03_EN.pdf #38,39

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services; regrets however that in some Member States the Youth Guarantee has failed to deliver the expected results; calls for an improvement of this instrument by implementing multi- level actions among all the relevant parties (young people, enterprises and educational institutions);

Amendment 169 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)

- having regard to the European Employment and Social situation quarterly review March 20151 a __________________ 1a http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId= 89⟨Id=en≠wsId=2193&furtherNews=yes

Amendment 170 #

Jean LAMBERT, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services; and individualised and mainstream social support services; emphasises the need to ensure that the Youth Guarantees reaches young people facing multiple exclusion and extreme poverty.

Amendment 171 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services, and social support services; emphasises the need to ensure that the Youth Guarantees reaches young people facing multiple exclusions and extreme poverty;

Amendment 173 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services and social support services, including mainstream and individualised support services; emphasises the need to ensure that Youth Guarantees reach young people facing multiple exclusions and extreme poverty;

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services; regrets that the financing of the Youth Guarantee has not been enough to effectively address the issue and the lack of coordination on the use that Member States have done with the funding; reiterates its continuous call for a European framework for introducing minimum standards for the implementation of Youth Guarantees;

Amendment 175 #

Brando BENIFEI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. calls on the Commission to ensure the close monitoring of the use of EU funds;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses that the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative are acting as drivers for improving school-to- work transition, modernising public employment services and contributing to the reduction of youth unemployment; highlights however that a better collaboration of public administrations and stakeholders at the local level and better synergies among level of governments would increase the outreach and the impact of the programmes; with a view to this, calls on the Commission to consider a targeted revision of the Youth Guarantee and its financing instruments, including the Youth Employment Initiative;

Amendment 177 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’'s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources~~, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in~~ for all actors involved, including social service providers, to ensure that the planned personalised approach can be implemented; calls for adequate support to jobseekers in the form of integrated service provision and access to high- quality education orand training to overcome possible gaps ; stresses that professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources ~~that need to be~~if they are to be effectively channelled to the unemployed;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that ~~professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to the~~for active employment policies to be efficient they must include requirements for the competent national authorities as well as for each of the long-term unemployed;

Amendment 179 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to the unemployed individuals at all ages;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 23rd October 2015 on "reducing inequalities with a special focus on child poverty"(2014/2237(INI))

Amendment 180 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed but it is worried about the plight of long-term unemployed in Europe, representing more than 12 million unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to the unemployed;

Amendment 181 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Stresses that long-term unemployed lack often even the minimum financial resources to meet the most basic needs of daily life; believes therefore that professional requalification should be preceded and paralleled by financial measures such as minimum income, which will enable long-term unemployed to meet the most urgent needs of daily life while struggling for their professional requalification;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Recognises the potential value of the EU as a means to focus Member States attention on the need for action, and for brokering exchanges of advice and assistance for those Member states that need it;

Amendment 183 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the integration of long-term unemployed individuals is crucial for their s~~elf-confidence~~urvival and future development and is key to fighting poverty and guaranteeing the sustainability of national social security systems;

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the integration of long-term unemployed individuals is crucial for their self-confidence and future development and is key to fighting poverty and ~~guaranteeing~~social exclusion and will ultimately contribute towards the sustainability of national social security systems;

Amendment 185 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the integration of long-term unemployed individuals is crucial for their self-confidence and future development and is key to fighting poverty and guaranteeing the sustainability of national social security systems; calls the Commission to support efforts to reduce long-term unemployment by creating inclusive lifelong learning opportunities for workers and job seekers at all ages;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the integration of long-term unemployed individuals is crucial for their self-confidence and future development and is key to fighting poverty and guaranteeing the sustainability of national social security systems; considers that is necessary, taking into account the social situation of these citizens and their needs in terms of sufficient incomes, adequate housing, public transport, health and childcare as well as a better monitoring at the European scale of the policies implemented at the national level; calls on the Commission to take measures as soon as possible to guarantee access to EU funding and to mobilise additional resources where possible, as was done in the case of the Youth Employment Initiative, especially in those countries hit harder by the crisis and the fiscal consolidation;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to exchange best practices on the efficiency of a minimum income to reduce inequality and social exclusion in Europe.

Amendment 188 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Is deeply concerned that there is still a 26 % difference in the rate of employment for people with disabilities compared to the average EU employment rate, with the employment rate for people with disabilities standing lower than 50%

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Believes that effective active labour market policies should include a combination of support for immediate action at Member State and EU level where appropriate to tackle the problems caused by the cyclical economic downturn and for action aimed at addressing long term structural and systemic issues in the labour market;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)

- - having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2014 on an EU Homelessness Strategy,

Amendment 190 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Underlines however that a job is not always a route out of poverty with 12.7% of working age people suffering in-work poverty (2014), increased from 11% in 2009. Underlines that an integrated active inclusion and social investment approach is essential to ensure access to quality jobs, inclusive labour markets and adequate income support;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Emphasises the urgent need to ensure that the EU's efforts to fight poverty and social exclusion are at the core of its growth strategy; calls on the Commission and Member States to actively address the growing number of people facing extreme housing exclusion and homelessness, which are currently not captured by indicators used to measure the EU poverty target, but nevertheless represent an alarming social reality, affecting at least 4 million people every year; is concerned by the fact that 22,348,834 households, or 11% of the population, in the EU are facing housing cost overburden and a further 10.5 million households suffer severe housing deprivation;

Amendment 192 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Urges the need to give a quick and correct answer to the unemployed people with 55+; Calls on both the Commission and the Member States to support flexible employment solutions to those people (including par-time and temporary jobs) that meet their specific needs, thus preventing their early-leave of work; Underlines the importance of elderly in the workplace to pass on their knowledge and experience to younger workers, for e.g. by involving them in workplace training processes, ensuring that 55+ workers do not fall in unemployment situation.

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7 b. Recognises the growing trend of companies returning production and services back to the EU and the opportunities this brings for job creation in the Member States; believes that the economies of the EU have a unique opportunity to accelerate this trend of re- shoring by reinforcing a stable and predictable regulatory environment;

Amendment 194 #

Jean LAMBERT, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7 b. Emphasises the urgent need to ensure that the EU's efforts to fight poverty and social exclusion actively address the growing number of people facing extreme housing exclusion and homelessness, which are currently not captured by indicators used to measure the EU poverty target but which represent an alarming social reality affecting at least 4 million people every year.

Amendment 195 #

Sven SCHULZE, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that ~~the EU~~many EU member states continues to suffer from structural problems, that need to be addressed urgently prior to a potential future interest rate reversal by the ECB with a negative impact on state finances, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently~~, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus~~; recognizes that austerity measures have failed to provide sustainable solutions for these problems; underlines the need for reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy with regard to social investment as a tool;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms creating a more flexible and secure labour market and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality ~~jobs~~employment while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

- having regard to Article 174 TFEU

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a European Platform to enhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work (A8-0172/2015)

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more ~~quality~~better and sustainable jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy; Stresses that Economic policies should adapt to the socials needs and should guarantee minimum social policies and basic services for its citizens;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising ~~investment,~~public and private investment, responsible structural reforms and ~~responsible~~balanced fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business and public services with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing upto the need to continue prioritising social investment, socially and economically balanced structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for ~~business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balanc~~quality job creation, social progress and investment delivering bothe social and economic ~~dimensions;~~returns. stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 203 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital and life-long learning is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural social problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to ~~continue prioritising investment, structural reforms~~prioritise large-scale public investment, socially progressive reforms (like the invention of an EU target for minimum wages to provide for a remuneration of at least 60 % of the respective national average wage, accompanied by an EU target for minimum income schemes providing income support of at least 60 % of national median equalised income), and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable economic environment for ~~business with a view to~~the creatingon of more quality jobs while re-balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 205 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that ~~the EU~~many EU Member States continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

Amendment 206 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms that reduce inequalities and promote quality jobs, sustainable growth and social investment and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable ~~environment for business~~path towards more cohesion and upward social convergence with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved ~~if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy~~through adequate investment in people and through more adequate sustainable social systems and integrated solutions to support people and make them even more resilient and prepared to face the challenges;

Amendment 207 #

Joachim SCHUSTER, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. reiterates the need for responsible fiscal policies, taking into account debt sustainability, the economic cycle and the investment gap; is concerned about the form of fiscal adjustment policy recommended by the Commission which focuses on cutting the expenditure; underlines that a responsible fiscal consolidation should in the future concentrate on revenue policies by fighting tax fraud and tax avoidance; takes note of a study by the International Monetary Fund[1] which emphasizes that over-hastily fiscal adjustment is likely to hurt growth prospects as it reduces domestic demand; [1] IMF Working Paper ' Walking Hand in Hand: Fiscal Policy and Growth in Advanced Economies', May 2012.

Amendment 208 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Javi LÓPEZ, Elena GENTILE, Agnes JONGERIUS, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Highlights that socially responsible reforms must be based on solidarity, integration, social justice and a fair wealth distribution - a model that ensures equality and social protection, protects vulnerable groups and improves the living standards for all citizens.

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the need to ~~promote and protect the~~reorientate the Union's economic policies towards a social market economy, which provides a framework within which competitiveness ~~contributes to social justice and social justice stimulates competitiveness;~~, decent work and high social standards contribute to social justice and equality

Amendment 21 #

Javi LÓPEZ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)

- - Having regard to the Commission's Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (October 2008),

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the need to promote and protect the social market economy, which provides a framework within which competitiveness contributes to social justice and social justice stimulates competitiveness; Calls on the Commission to extend its approach about insolvency and business failure, expressed in their Recommendation of 12.03.2014, to improve debt-restructuring and second chance schemes, not just for business and entrepreneurs, but also for individuals and households, as a means to solve the problem of excess private debt in a fair and efficient manner in social and economic terms;

Amendment 211 #

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the need to promote and protect the social market economy, which provides a framework within which competitiveness contributes to social justice and social justice stimulates competitiveness as well as the need to find a balance between economic considerations and the need to ensure an efficient fiscal consolidation, a sustainable economy, a real social cohesion and an increased social protection ;

Amendment 212 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Jutta STEINRUCK, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Stresses that AGS should asses in a more consistent manner the evolution of inequality in Europe through economic indicators, such as the Gini and Palma index;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Is concerned that labour market reforms in many Member States have mainly promoted precarious jobs; observes that 50% of the jobs created in 2014 were temporary jobs; notes that, according to the Commission, in-work poverty persists; in this context, calls for a wage increase not only to guarantee decent income, but also which serves to consolidate the economic recovery through the strenghtening of the internal demand;

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises both the quality of work and workers’' access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;

Amendment 215 #

Jeroen LENAERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, letterbox companies and bogus self-employment which jeopardises workers’ access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce and adequately equip labour inspection ~~mechanism~~s and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to ~~fight~~tackle undeclared work, which jeopardises workers’' access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to regularize jobs and enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; ~~encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;~~

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises workers’ access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts; encourages the Member States to fully invest in the future platform to tackle undeclared work;

Amendment 218 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Jutta STEINRUCK, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises both the quality of work and workers’' access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment and social protection regimes; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts; calls on Member States to enforce penalties on exploitative employers

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises workers’ access to social protection systems ands well as national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to ~~design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes~~increase their efforts to turn undeclared work into declared work; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the degree of stability and the quality of diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)

- having regard to the Eurofound report (2014) 'Changes to wage-setting mechanisms in the context of the crisis and the EU's new economic governance regime';

Amendment 220 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Georgi PIRINSKI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises both the quality of work and workers’' access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; recognises the role of agency work to transform available work into declared employment and encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Is concerned about the increase in income inequalities linked partially to inefficient labour market reforms; calls on the Commission and Member States to implement measures improving job quality in order to reduce labour market segmentation combined with measures raising minimum wages to a decent level and strengthening collective bargaining and workers position in wage-setting systems in order to reduce wage dispersion; warns about the fact that in recent decades, corporate management have been taking a greater share of the economic share while workers' wages have stagnated or have been reduced; considers that this excessive dispersion in wages increases inequalities and damages productivity and competitiveness of companies.

Amendment 222 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Guillaume BALAS, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. calls the European Commission and Member States to respect and promote collective bargaining and its coverage to reach as many workers as possible while at the same time also aiming for better wage floors in the form of, where applicable, minimum wages set at decent levels and with the involvement of social partners - all this with a view to end the competitive wage race to the bottom, to support aggregate demand and economic recovery, to reduce wage inequalities, to fight in-work poverty and to assist the European Central Bank in getting out of the risk of deflation and to achieve its price stability target

Amendment 223 #

Siôn SIMON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that ~~flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs~~precarious work remains a key concern across the EU; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 224 #

Joachim SCHUSTER, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more ~~quality~~better and sustainable jobs; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Considering~~is concerned about the Commission's reference to thate flexicurity ~~contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs~~model as a guiding principle for structural reforms as it has not been applied adequately in a range of Member States, calls on the Commission to ensure that labour rights and social security standards are ensured when applying the flexicurity model; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed- term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 226 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that flexicurity has to be carefully considered if the aim is to contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls on the Member States to ~~modernis~~ensure their employment protection legislation ~~in order to~~ guarantees more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’' access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, and zero-hour contracts in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 227 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts as well as other atypical contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 228 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation, increasing employment and promoting the creation of more quality ~~jobs; calls on~~employment; encourages the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to ~~guarante~~promote more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 229 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding~~Objects to the Commission's attempt to re-introduce the failed flexicurity concept, as more flexibility led to more labour market fragmentation ~~and promoting the creation of more quality jobs~~, more precarious work and a re-commodification of labour, permanent uncertainty for employees, psychological stress, and the hampering of a stable life planning and a decent family life; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee ~~more stability in~~high quality jobs with dismissal protection, high quality public services for the transitions between jobs, as well as employees’' access to high standards of social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed- term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)

- having regard to the Eurofound forthcoming report (16 February 2016) Role of social partners in the European Semester;

Amendment 230 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs and also through more and better cooperation between public and private employment services where applicable, as well as employees’' access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 231 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that the good use of flexicurity could have contributesd to avoid~~ing~~ labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls on the Member States to ~~modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights~~guarantee measures aimed at maintaining employment in times of economic disruption, ensure job quality and security in employment transitions, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; regrets that in the context of the economic crisis, the labour reforms have favoured flexibility at the expense of security, resulting in increased precariousness and a lack of employment protection; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed- term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

Amendment 232 #

Deirdre CLUNE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Notes the need to embrace the shift towards the digital economy in the context of upskilling and training as well as new forms of employment.

Amendment 233 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Warns about the fact that despite the fact that labour reforms have reduced the payments or damages for unfair dismissal and have lowered taxes or given tax incentives for permanent employment creation, new jobs have been mainly temporary contracts.

Amendment 234 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls on the Member States to consider overall progresses in public services incomes as well as in minimum income, when applyable, without putting aside the productivity growth and in a sustainable and stable way, without jeopardizing Member States own competences;

Amendment 235 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. Welcomes the Commission´s initiative on investments in human capital to restore jobs and sustainable growth. However, is extremely worried about the fact that public expenditure in education has recorded a 3.2%[1]decrease since 2010, with decreases in eleven Member States in the most recent year 2013. Stresses that, in order to be effective, these reforms should focus on the pupils curricula and the public sector; [1] Joint employment report 2016 page 19

Amendment 236 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Elena GENTILE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11 c. stresses the importance of active labour market policies in the current context; calls on the Member States to increase the coverage and effectiveness of active labour market policies;

Amendment 237 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people~~, in order~~ as well as for the Generation 50+ in order to utilize their professional experience and to secure the transfer of their know-how to young colleagues and to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 238 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to ~~gradually~~ shift taxes from labour to ~~other~~less detrimental sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises; urges Member States to cut red tape in order to promote youth entrepreneurship;

Amendment 239 #

Brando BENIFEI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)

- having regard to its legislative resolution of 8 July 2015 on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States,

Amendment 240 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation~~, especially for highly qualified young people,~~ and more attention should be paid on preserving the existing jobs of people at risk in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 241 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Calls on the~~Urges Member States to ~~gradually~~ shift taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for ~~highly qualified~~ young people, in order to boost employment, research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 242 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources whilst ensuring that social security systems are adequately financed, and to implement fair tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, ~~especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;~~

Amendment 243 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 244 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources with due regard to overall competitiveness, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 245 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to ~~other sources~~wards wealth, financial transactions, capital gains, pollution and consumption, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 246 #

Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Calls on the Member States to gradually~~Notes the importance of reducing taxation on labour, especially by low-paid and low-skilled workers, the long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, while ensuring the long-range sustainability of public pensions systems; calls therefore for a shift of taxes from labour ~~to other sources~~, while making sure not to endanger social benefits to other sources, while noting that such shifts should not affect taxes with regressive effects such as consumption taxes, but should focus instead on taxes on wealth, capital gains, financial transactions or pollution, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 247 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour ~~to other sources~~and consumption to capital and property, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 248 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Joachim SCHUSTER, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 249 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 25 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)

- - Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

Amendment 250 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States ~~to graduall~~consider the strong arguments in favour of and to exchange best practice on policies that have proven to be successful in term of job creation for example by shifting taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the European Semester and AGS to asses the importance of the income policies including pensions, revenue indicators and fiscal policy, in order to guarantee social cohesion and revert inequality trends;

Amendment 252 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 253 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing and new social risks; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other ~~social and labour factor~~factors like birth rates, labour market trends, individual and public state of health and migration figures, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;

Amendment 254 #

Ulla TØRNÆS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; ~~considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances~~highlights the benefits of linking pension schemes to life expectancy for increasing the sustainability of public finances in the face of the expected increase in ageing;

Amendment 255 #

Sven SCHULZE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 256 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability ~~in the face of expected ageing~~taking ageing into account; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors~~, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances~~;

Amendment 257 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 258 #

Jeroen LENAERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances; in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, Member States should retain full responsibility for the organisation of their pension systems as well as for the decision on the role of each of the three pillars of the retirement system in individual Member States.

Amendment 259 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States ~~to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; consi~~with lower social protection systems to upgrade them, in orders t~~hat pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;~~o avoid social dumping and all others competitive distortions

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)

- Having regard to the Commission's Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (October 2008),

Amendment 260 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ~~modernise~~assess their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;

Amendment 261 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ~~modernise their current~~ensure that their social protection systems~~, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other~~ guarantee their performance in tackling and preventing poverty and inequalities while ensuring their sustainability in the face of expected demographic, social and economic challenges; considers that pension schemes should provide guarantees against old age poverty and be linked to a range of social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee ~~their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but a~~a holistic approach for a new inclusive, demand driven growth model, including: - income support sufficient to avoid social exclusion and income poverty; - inclusive labour markets with comprehensive support for disadvantaged groups; - better access to quality services, especially for the most disadvantaged (like the rising number of homeless people in the EU, Roma, single-parent households, elderly, NEETs, and refugees); - strategies to end homelessness; - strategies to end child poverty; - gender mainstreaming, - anti-discrimination and active participation of those people affected in policy design; considers that pension schemes should be linked to various economic, social and labour factors, such as the consideration of long-term effects of different job profiles on the physical and mental health of employees, life expectancy, future productivity growth, decent wage levelso t~~o other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising~~hat allow contributions to pension schemes allowing a decent revenue when employees reach pension age, and immigration policies with a focus on fast social and economic integration measures, in order to stabilise the sustainability of public finances;

Amendment 263 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their ~~sustainability in the face of expected ageing~~performance in tackling and preventing poverty and inequalities while ensuring their sustainability in the face of expected demographic, economic and social challenges; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;

Amendment 264 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ~~moderni~~increase their ~~current~~investments in social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finimprove the resilience of Member States economies in times of crisis and to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; highlights the importance of the automatic stabilisation dimension of welfare systems to absorb social shock waves caused by recessions; stresses that , high quality welfare systems and social investments are extremely important if Europe wants to maintain its main competitive advantage - highly skilled workers and productive compancies;

Amendment 265 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’ capacity to ensure their children’s and other dependents' care and wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a family;

Amendment 266 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’ capacity to ensure their children’s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a family; calls on the Commission to provide families with assistance not only by means of financial support but also in the form of high quality services;

Amendment 267 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote ~~family-friendly policies that enhance~~enabling policies in the field of family support and pare~~nts’ capacity to ensure their children’s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line w~~vention of social exclusion such as adequate maternity and paternity leave provisions and the access to social services such as childcare that enhance parents' capacithy t~~he number of children~~ o ensure their children's wellbeing a ~~family~~nd improve women's access to the labour market;

Amendment 268 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’ capacity to ensure their children’s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a family;

Amendment 269 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to ~~examine the persi~~strengthen efforts to eradicate the gender pay gap and to take more active measures to stren~~ce of low fertility rates in the EU~~gthen women's participation in the labour market, such as investment in child and elderly care, adequate maternity and paternity leave provisions and the access to social services; cCalls on the Commission and the Member States to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’' capacity to ensure their children’'s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a family;

Amendment 27 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)

- having regard to the debate with representatives of national parliaments on the priorities of the 2016 European Semester,

Amendment 270 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’ capacity to ensure their children’s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a ~~family~~household;

Amendment 271 #

Joachim SCHUSTER, Jutta STEINRUCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Notes that low population density or high dispersed population significantly increase the cost of providing public services such as health care or education; calls on the Commission and Member States to take into account their causes and consequences while analysing the effects of demographic change and its impact on the sustainability of public finances;

Amendment 272 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. underlines that according to Art. 153 (5) TFEU interference in wage setting mechanism by the European Union is not foreseen; emphasizes that wage setting is a core responsibility of mandated social partners in the Member States; demands therefore that the Commission ceases to interfere in national wage setting mechanisms and rejects the establishment of National Competitiveness Boards; underlines that wages are an important factor to increase domestic demand and economic growth; calls therefore on relevant actors in high-surplus countries to support faster wage increases enabling higher domestic demand.

Amendment 273 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Stresses the fact that, in order to be effective, EFSI investments must be focused on creating new investments in areas where investor appetite is subdued rather than on substituting investments that would have been produced elsewhere or focusing on highly profitable investments that would have occurred in any case; reiterates its call on the importance of investments in human capital and other social investments, such as healthcare, childcare or affordable housing and on the need of the effective implementation of the Social Investment Package;

Amendment 274 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14 b. Invites the Commission and the Member States to involve all levels of government and relevant stakeholders in the identification of obstacles to investments, focusing on the most needed regions and sectors as well as on making available adequate instruments bringing together public and private financing;

Amendment 275 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the need to promote sustainable growth leading to the creation of more and better jobs and tangible prospects for all, young people in particular, in order to respond to the internal and external challenges facing the EU;

Amendment 276 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the need to promote sustainable and inclusive growth leading to the creation of more and better jobs and tangible prospects for young people in particular, in order to respond to the internal and external challenges facing the EU;

Amendment 277 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

Amendment 278 #

Marek PLURA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the need to promote sustainable inclusive growth leading to the creation of more and better ~~jobs~~quality jobs for all and tangible prospects, including for young people ~~in particular~~, in order to respond to the internal and external challenges facing the EU;

Amendment 279 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

Amendment 28 #

Marek PLURA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 c (new)

- - Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015),

Amendment 280 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Underlines that the demographic change will lead to a decrease of young workers and consequently to an increasing need to retain older workers in employment; calls on the Member States to adapt their labour market strategies and pension systems as well as improve adult education in order to react to the demographic change accordingly;

Amendment 281 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. underlines the need to increase women employment rate in order to reach the objectives set out in the Europe 2020 strategy and encourages the Commission and social partners to be ambitious and to take measures in order to better reconcile work-life balance;

Amendment 282 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on ~~SME~~micro, small and medium size enterprises as a fundamental key for sustainable and inclusive development; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs, and to develop mechanisms that ~~might~~ impel such enterprises to achieve or operationalise in an international dimension; underlines therefore the need to implement comprehensive and homogeneous industrial policies at the EU level in order to enable it to face the challenges posed by non-EU competitors;

Amendment 283 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on SMEs as a fundamental key for sustainable development; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs and to monitor the impact of tax incentives on sustainable development, and to develop mechanisms that might icompel such enterprises to ~~achieve or operationalis~~operate in an international dimension;

Amendment 284 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on SMEs as a fundamental key for sustainable development and job-creation; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs, and to develop mechanisms that might impel such enterprises to achieve or operationalise in an international dimension;

Amendment 285 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on SMEs as a fundamental key for sustainable development; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes linked to sustainable business models that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs, and to develop mechanisms that might impel such enterprises to achieve or operationalise in an international dimension;

Amendment 286 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. calls on the Member States to simplify regulatory frameworks and to avoid gold plating in order to reduce administrative burdens which hinder the creation and development of SMEs;

Amendment 287 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with Member States, to take steps to provide better information on all European funds and programmes that have the potential to boost entrepreneurship, investment and access to financing, such as Erasmus for Entrepreneurs, the European Employment Service (EURES), the programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME), the programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI);

Amendment 288 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with Member States, to take steps to provide better information on all European funds and programmes that have the potential to boost entrepreneurship, investment and access to financing, such as Erasmus for Entrepreneurs, the programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME), the programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI); Recalls the importance of the partnership principle, bottom up approach and the importance of adequate resource allocation;

Amendment 289 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls on the Member States to develop policies which boost entrepreneurship among young people, from an early age, by providing opportunities for internships and company visits;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 c (new)

- having regard to the Commission recommendation of 20 February 2013 entitled 'Investing in Children: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage' (COM(2013)778)

Amendment 290 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls for the EFSI to be applied in particular towards helping European areas with low levels of investment and that are specially affected by unemployment; Calls on the European Commission to monitor and control the investments under the EFSI. A report should audit and measure the economic and social impact of the investment in real terms;

Amendment 291 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate all these programmes in a holistic way, in order to prevent conflicts between its targets and demands and to cut red tape; in such a revision should be an analysis of each Member State appliance, thus guaranteeing more equity in its access to the funds;

Amendment 292 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17 b. In order to boost entrepreneurship among Youth, calls on the Member States to support associations and initiatives which help young entrepreneurs in the development of innovative projects by providing them administrative, legal or organisational support ;

Amendment 293 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17 b. The European Social Fund should devote more resources to funding the engagement of unemployed workers in training programmes in the EU Member States in addition to those in their country of origin, making easier their integration in the European labour market they choose and enhancing European citizenship;

Amendment 294 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy, including social services face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; calls on the Commission to create a tool within EFSI aiming specifically to support investment into the social economy and social service providers;

Amendment 295 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; underlines also the need to cut red tape in order to support social enterprises;

Amendment 296 #

Sven SCHULZE, Anne SANDER, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

Amendment 297 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; welcomes therefore the fact that part of the funding for the EaSI programme is earmarked to help provide access to finance for social and solidarity-based economy enterprises;

Amendment 298 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that ~~enterprises in the social economy face as many~~social economy enterprises encounter even more difficulties asthan traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing, due to, among other factors, the little knowledge of the financial intermediary managers of its actual situation; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds;

Amendment 299 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to ~~give them more support~~ensure that all enterprises have equal access to funding, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds;

Amendment 3 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Anthea McINTYRE, Amjad BASHIR, Joachim STARBATTY

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

- having regard to the European Court of Auditors special report number 3/2015 on the EU Youth Guarantee: first steps taken but implementation risks ahead1 a ; __________________ 1a http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocu ments/SR15_03/SR15_03_EN.pdf

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 d (new)

- Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015)

Amendment 300 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy ~~face~~, including social services, face at least as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; Calls on the Commission to create a tool within EFSI aiming specifically to support investment in the social economy and social service provision;

Amendment 301 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; Urges the need to give them a legal framework, for e.g. an European statute for cooperative societies, associations, foundations and mutuals, recognizing their action in EU and avoiding unfair competition;

Amendment 302 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Underlines the high societal and economic value of investment in social protection, including social services; states that such social investment should be given more flexibility within the Macro-economic Imbalance Procedure, therefore encouraging Member States to invest in social services for positive social and economic growth.

Amendment 303 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

Amendment 304 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Is concerned that "quantitative easing" policies as currently used by the ECB are leading to more financial speculation and detracting from investment and will damage job creation and growth prospects in the EU;1 a __________________ 1a http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed- has-hurt-business-investment- 1445899627 http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-little- humility-please-mr-summers-1446669213

Amendment 305 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4

Better use of European funds to foster social ~~and geographic~~, economic and territorial cohesion

Amendment 306 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Welcom~~Notes the ~~results~~introduction of the EFSI in the first year of its implementation and its role of rewarding the ~~best~~ projects at European level; calls on the Commission to ensure that all Member States make use of the possibility of accessing this fund;

Amendment 307 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Welcomes the res~~ults~~tablishment of the EFSI ~~in the first year of its implementation and its role of re~~and takes note of the awarding of the ~~best~~initial projects ~~at European level~~; calls on the Commission to ensure that all Member States make use of the possibility of accessing this fund in line with the objectives of the Cohesion Policy;

Amendment 308 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Welcomes the results of the EFSI in the first year of its implementation and its role of ~~reward~~supporting the best projects at European level; calls on the Commission to ensure that the EFSI allows for a better social and economic convergence of Member States and their regions within the EU and that all Member States make use of the possibility of accessing this fund;

Amendment 309 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Reminds the Commission of its Budget Review 2010 which identified 'EU added value' as one of its core principles; insists that this principle represents the cornerstone of all expenditures, which must also be guided by efficiency, effectiveness and value for money, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity as defined by Article 5 TEU;

Amendment 31 #

Jean LAMBERT, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 e (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2014 on an EU Homelessness Strategy

Amendment 310 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructurale and human capital development projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure social fairness or enhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation;

Amendment 311 #

Marek PLURA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructural projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure social fairness or enhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation; highlights nonetheless the short-term sustainability of these jobs as well as the heavy impact produced on the environment by these projects;

Amendment 312 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

Amendment 313 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructural projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure greater cohesion, social fairness or enhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation;

Amendment 314 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructural and human capital development projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure social fairness or enhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation;

Amendment 315 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructural and human capital development projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure social ~~fairness~~equality or enhance sustainable ~~growth~~inclusive growth, such as childcare facilities; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social, environmental and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation;

Amendment 316 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Stresses, taking into account Member States’ difficulties in fully using European funds, that the EU must guarantee proper and better use of its investments, which need to be matched to its priorities, as well as the efficient management of its resources, and must also cut red tape with regard to access, implementation and evaluation; calls on the Commission to ensure the close monitoring of the use of EU funds;

Amendment 317 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Stresses, taking into account Member States’ difficulties~~Is deeply concerned about the difficulties that Member States still experience in fully using European funds~~, that the~~; EU must guarantee proper and better use of its investments, which need to be matched to its priorities, as well as the efficient management of its resources, and must also cut red tape with regard to access, implementation and evaluationthe full use of these resources in order to avoid a jeopardised competitiveness growth scenario ;

Amendment 318 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Stresses, taking into account Member States’' difficulties in fully using European funds, that the EU must guarantee proper and better use of its investments, which need to be matched to its priorities and fundamental values as outlined in the treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the efficient management of its resources, and must ~~also cut red tape~~reduce barriers with regard to access, implementation and evaluation;

Amendment 319 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the Commission’s call on Member States to increase their social investments, especially in ~~healthcare~~(formal and informal) health and long-term care as well as social services, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 f (new)

- Having regard to the Communication Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015 and subsequent Strategic engagement for equality between women and men 2016-2019, which specifically refer to women's employment and economic independence;

Amendment 320 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Commission’s call on Member States to increase their social investments, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application; calls furthermore on the Commission to ensure that EU recommendations are properly implemented by Member States;

Amendment 321 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the Commission’s call on Member States to increase their social investments, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services to fulfil the growth of their citizens needs facing the economic crisis; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;.

Amendment 322 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the Commission’'s call on Member States to increase their social investments, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; cCalls on ~~enterprises and other~~the Member States to fully implement the Commission's recommendation on Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage; calls on all eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;

Amendment 323 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the Commission’s ~~call on~~encouragement to some Member States to increase their social investments in order to increase European economic and social cohesion, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;

Amendment 324 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the Commission’'s call on Member States to increase their social investments, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on Member States to fully implement the European Commission's Investing in children recommendation of 2013 as requested by a majority of MEPs in the written declaration 2015/0042; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;

Amendment 325 #

Deirdre CLUNE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Calls on the commission and member states to take action in the area of affordable childcare so as to allow the parent with caring responsibilities equal access to the labour market, which is of particular importance to the inclusion of women in the labour market

Amendment 326 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Points out that formal and especially informal carers represent an important pillar for mastering the rapidly growing demands of the future care systems in Europe; underlines the need to improve the social protection for caring family members, who often have to reduce their paid jobs in order to provide unpaid care and lose social security rights as a result;

Amendment 327 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

Amendment 328 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

Amendment 329 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Jutta STEINRUCK, Elena GENTILE, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Congratulates the Commission on having enhanced the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of the implementation of the country- specific recommendations, and on having presented a proposal to the Member States on funding for technical assistance; underlines that these funds should not solely be used to implement the country- specific recommendations, leaving out other important investment areas;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital - A a (new)

- A a. Whereas the economic recovery in the EU is under way but remains uneven between and within Member States and is partly driven by temporary factors, such as low oil prices and unconventional monetary policies showing therefore that the EU can do more to boost the economic and social recovery so as to make it more sustainable in the medium term;

Amendment 330 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Congratula~~Notes that the Commission ~~on having~~ enhanced the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of the implementation of the country- specific recommendations, and on having presented a proposal to the Member States on funding for technical assistance; underlines that these funds should not solely be used to implement the country- specific recommendations, potentially leaving out other important investment areas;

Amendment 331 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Congratulates~~Notes that the Commission ~~on having~~has enhanced the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of the implementation of the country- specific recommendations, and congratulates the Commission on having presented a proposal to the Member States on funding for technical assistance;

Amendment 332 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion between Member States and their regions, but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social and civil dialogue plays a key role;

Amendment 333 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

Amendment 334 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social ~~and~~, economic and territorial cohesion between Member States and their regions, but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social dialogue plays a key role;

Amendment 335 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Agrees on the urgent need to develop a European pillar of social rights and a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion within and between Member States and their regions, but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social and civil dialogue plays a key role;

Amendment 336 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion between Member States and their regions, ~~but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social dialogue plays a key role~~and that the social dialogue must play a key role in the achievement of this; points out that social policies are Member States' competence and that this must be respected as a matter of subsidiarity;

Amendment 337 #

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion between Member Sstates and their regions, and to concretely strengthen social and demographic cohesion through a real and optimized use of available funds but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social dialogue plays a key role ;

Amendment 338 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion between Member States and their regions, but points out that this must be viewed as a ~~goal of a common project~~common goal in which social dialogue can plays a key role;

Amendment 339 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls for tackling economic inequalities which act as an obstacle against long lasting economic growth;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment ~~has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citiz~~remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed; whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 only gradually due to the persisting macroeconomic austerity regimes and structural reforms in many Member States that hamper large-scale public investmenst, ~~i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed~~weaken social dialogue, destabilise labour markets, dismantle social security and perpetuate social exclusion;

Amendment 340 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission to enhance the application of Article 349 TFEU in order to make the outermost regions more integrated in the Europe of Regions, differentiating EU policies in order to guarantee equity between regions and promote upward convergence; Underlines that it is necessary to maintain the special attention given to outermost regions, not only in terms of allocation of funds but also attending to the impact that European policies can have on their social situation and levels of employment, for e.g. the impact of the end of milk quotas; Calls on the Commission to ensure that European decisions and funding allocation are accompanied by proper monitoring, reproducing significant improvement on the welfare of outermost regions citizens.

Amendment 341 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to boost strategic investments with the aim to improve the territorial structure, increase the competitiveness and set population in order to reach article 174 of the TFEU, in particular in those regions that suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps;

Amendment 342 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Joachim STARBATTY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Stresses that the divisions between the poorest regions and the rest of the EU are deepening and calls for urgent targeted efforts on both European and national level for promoting cohesion and growth in these regions;

Amendment 343 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Is concerned of the effects that the migration crisis is having on genuine intra-EU labour mobility; calls therefore on the Commission to consider the extension of the "smart borders" system in order to ease genuine intra-EU labour mobility;

Amendment 344 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Georgi PIRINSKI, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Calls on the Commission, in the framework of the midterm review of the MFF, to study the possibility of increasing the funding of the ESF to ensure the adequacy of its objectives and the new challenges that have been incorporated, such as long-term unemployment or the integration of refugees. Calls also for the establishmen of an specific programme to those European subregions whose unemployment rates exceed 30%;

Amendment 345 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Social inclusion as a ~~challenge~~n opportunity for society

Amendment 346 #

Brando BENIFEI

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Social inclusion as a ~~challenge~~n opportunity for society

Amendment 347 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Social inclusion a~~s a challenge~~nd technology as a opportunity for society

Amendment 348 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Social inclusion as a ~~challenge~~n opportunity for society

Amendment 349 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Social inclusion as a ~~challenge~~n opportunity for society

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. wWhereas ~~unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless~~despite the somewhat decreasing unemployment rates in some Member States unemployment remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed;

Amendment 350 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Welcomes the Commission's call on all Member States to increase their social investment, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services;

Amendment 351 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that the Europe 2020 ~~strategy still maintains its pertinence, and calls on the Member States to reinforce its implementation on the ground~~targets have not yet been reached, while the living conditions of many EU citizens keep worsening; asks the Commission and the Council to more closely monitor its global and national implementation; considers it necessary to start projecting a post-Europe 2020 scenario;

Amendment 352 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. ~~Stress~~Underlines that the Europe 2020 strategy ~~still maintains its pertinence, and calls on the Member States to reinforce its implementation on the ground~~hardly will achive its goals; asks the Commission and the Council to ~~more closely monitor its global and~~ start projecting a post-Europe 2020 scenatrio~~nal implementation; considers it necessary to start projecting a post-Europe 2020 scenario~~, leaving behind the useless European way of acting, which is nothing but propaganda, giving European citizens needs their fair priority;

Amendment 353 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that the pertinence of the Europe 2020 strategy ~~still maintains its pertinence~~increased since its creation, and calls on the Member States to reinforce its implementation on the ground; asks the Commission and the Council to more closely monitor its global and national implementation; considers it necessary to start projecting a post-Europe 2020 scenario linked to the Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 354 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. SWelcomes the renewal of the Europe 2020 integrated guidelines; stresses that the Europe 2020 strategy still maintains its pertinence, and calls on the Member States to reinforce its implementation on the ground; asks the Commission and the Council to more closely monitor its global and national implementation; considers it necessary to start projecting a post-Europe 2020 scenario;

Amendment 355 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26 a. Calls on the Commission to propose an integrated rights-based anti-poverty strategy in the EU to tackle the multidimensionality of poverty for all groups, especially the most vulnerable ones, integrated active inclusion, underpinned by rights to quality social protection and linked to thematic strategies for all at-risk groups. In this sense, reiterates its call on the Commission to propose an initiative to promote the introduction of minimum incomes in the Member States, for example, through an EU framework for adequate income throughout the life cycle stressing that it is up to each Member State to set minimum income levels and that these should be commensurate to the specific socioeconomic situation in the country in question;

Amendment 356 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

26 b. Is particularly worried about the fact that a job is no longer a guarantee out of poverty or the best tool for ensuring social inclusion. Even if the in-work AROP rate stabilised on average in the 28 EU Member States, only half of the poor who find a job actually escape poverty[i]. Calls on the Commission and the Member states to urgently address this situation while assuring the conditions for new jobs to offer at least a living wage [i] Joint Employment Report 2016 page 28

Amendment 357 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Georgi PIRINSKI, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)

26 c. Is extremely worried about the child poverty rates in the EU; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to introduce a child guarantee;

Amendment 358 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient and effective forms of social protection systems and income support, with a special focus on groups at risk in order to ensure that these systems offer a minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of poverty and social exclusion throughout the life-cycle, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entering the job market;

Amendment 359 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusion~~, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entering the job market~~; calls therefore on Member States to set levels of minimum income in accordance with national practice and proportionate to the social and economic situation;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment ~~has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless~~ remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed;

Amendment 360 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient forms of social protection systems ~~and income support~~, in order to ensure that these systems offer a ~~minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusion~~way out of unemployment and social exclusion and into the labur market, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entering the job market, stresses that a job is the best and only sustainable way out of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 361 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusion, while ~~guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or enter~~coupling them with specific provisions such as active employment policies with the aim of returning the unemployed, and, in particular, the long-term unemployed, to the labour market, and training ~~the~~and job ~~market~~creation programmes;

Amendment 362 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

Amendment 363 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to implement and monitor more effective and efficient forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a ~~minimum~~n adequate standard of living for ~~the unemployed and~~ those at risk of poverty and social exclusion, ~~while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entering the job market~~as part of an integrated active inclusion approach which tackles homelessness and provides personalised pathways into quality jobs and access to quality services - particularly housing, education, health, childcare and early learning;

Amendment 364 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to implement and monitor more ~~efficient~~inclusive forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a ~~minimum~~decent standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusion, ~~while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or~~develop integrated strategies to tackle homelessness and housing exclusion, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms provide access to education and training and opportunities to enter~~ing~~ the ~~job~~labour market;

Amendment 365 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27 a. Calls on the Commission to propose a strengthened social pillar based on social rights which can ensure a level playing field across the EU, starting with an EU guarantee of an adequate minimum income, and reinforced employment and social rights;

Amendment 366 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees; stresses that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);deleted

Amendment 367 #

Mara BIZZOTTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. ~~Calls on the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of~~Stresses that refugees;' s~~tresses that such an approach~~ocial and economic emergency will require the allocation of f~~und~~inancial funds, welfare services and safety measures that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission ~~to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)~~and all the Member States to develop a new approach to face this phenomena guaranteeing a full sharing of all its burdens;

Amendment 368 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees; points out however that these measures can be effective only if shared and implemented equally by all Member States; stresses that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);

Amendment 369 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees~~; stresse~~ and migrants legally residing in the EU; considers that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);

Amendment 37 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment rate has been diminishing since 2013 ~~thanks to~~but though not significantly enough to curb unemployment and poverty, despite some supportive macroeconomic policies and ~~the impact of~~ structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long- term unemployed;

Amendment 370 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the social inclusion ~~of refugees~~and the integration of the most vulnerable groups, such as the refugees, into the labour market; stresses that such an approach will require an adequathe allocation of funds that, in souch a fragile a situation with regards employment and social conditions in Europe, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to pro~~vide the funding required~~pose adequate funding schemes and budgetary allocation to develop such a strategy ~~as part of~~in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF); mid-term revision;

Amendment 371 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers; stresses that such an approach (access to education, training and employment, affordable housing and healthcare) will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided ~~solely by~~by some Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);

Amendment 372 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees within the regulation of the Dublin III regulation; stresses that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) by identifying savings within the agreed financial ceilings;

Amendment 373 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on ~~the~~all Member States to agree on a common policy for the welcoming of refugees and to implement the necessary national measures for their inclusion ~~of refugees~~; stresses that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF); calls on the Commission and the Member States to invite the social partners to play a key role in the common task of integrating migrants and refugees into the labour market, to cut the waiting period before asylum seekers are allowed to work to a minimum, to develop mechanisms for the fast recognition of skills and competences, to introduce labour market policies that offer language courses, training and consultation, to develop a framework to guarantee decent work and equal treatment, and to prevent a drift of immigrants and refugees into undeclared work;

Amendment 374 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28 a. Calls on the Commission to duly take into account additional expenditures encountered by Member States in the effort to address the refugee crisis and their integration into the society and the labour market when assessing their compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact;

Amendment 375 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take adequate measures to help refugees settle and integrate, as well as ensuring that public services are sufficiently resourced and early anticipation of the requirements to facilitate their smooth transition to the labour market. Local authorities and social partners should play a key role in facilitating the integration of migrants and preventing them from suffering from labour abuse;

Amendment 376 #

Marek PLURA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’'s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the adequacy, sustainability and effectiveness of social security systems over the coming decades; therefore calls for effective social protection systems to be developed to mitigate the risk of long- term care needs, including preventative and rehabilitation services and support for informal carers; calls for increased attention to specific groups when implementing pension reforms, such as older women and very old persons; calls especially for the implementation of the 2015 Council conclusions on equal income opportunities for women and men: closing the gender gap in pensions;

Amendment 377 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’'s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability and effectiveness of social security systems over the coming decades;

Amendment 378 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability of social security systems over the coming decades, encourages therefore the Member States to develop strategies which ensure that more people are maintained as an active part of the labour force for a longer time;

Amendment 379 #

Brando BENIFEI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability of social security systems over the coming decades; highlights the long-term benefits associated with a rapid and full social inclusion and integration of migrants into the labour market, with a view to contribute to the sustainability of national welfare and fiscal systems;

Amendment 38 #

Sven SCHULZE

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms as well as a continued sharp decrease of energy prices and a depreciation of the Euro; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed;

Amendment 380 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’'s citizens and high unemployment rates of young people in some areas, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability and effectiveness of social security systems over the coming decades and the need to invest in better redistribution through tax and benefit systems;

Amendment 381 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability safety and adequacy of social security systems over the coming decades; considers that linking retirement age to life expectancy is not the only way of tackling the challenge of ageing, and that pension system reforms should also reflect, inter alia, labour market trends, birth rates, the demographic situation, the health and wealth situation, working conditions and the economic dependency ratio; recalls that the best way to tackle the challenge of ageing is to increase the overall employment rate, building, inter alia, on social investments in active ageing;

Amendment 382 #

Brando BENIFEI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that asylum-seekers have access to the labour market and to enable their right to work, which is a fundamental right according to international law; urges the Member States to fully transpose into national legislation and implement all dispositions included in the updated European Agenda on Migration; deplores the fact that the Commission had to adopt 40 infringement decisions against several Member States, including Letters of Formal Notice to 19 Member States for not having taken the necessary measures to transpose the Reception Condition Directive; supports the Commission in its efforts to strengthen the European Agenda on Migration;

Amendment 383 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility~~, ensuring~~ on one hand to increase the employment rate and on the other hand to ensure that EU mobile workers are not treated abusively;

Amendment 384 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are noteither exploited nor treated abusively;

Amendment 385 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to ~~fair~~ labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are ~~not~~ treated ~~abusively~~equally with non-mobile workers;

Amendment 386 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are not treated abusively and that their employment and social rights are guaranteed;

Amendment 387 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, ~~ensuring that EU~~since the free movement is a fundamental right in the EU, ensuring that no worker is left uncovered by social and labour rights protection, including mobile workers, a~~re not treated abusively~~nd guaranteeing the principle of equal treatment while safeguarding wages and social standard; calls on the commission in this respect to present the Labour Mobility Package, as announced in the CWP 2016, in order to guarantee equal pay for equal work at the same workplace, to end discrimination and abuse of workers and to terminate practices that are undermining a level playing field;

Amendment 388 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to ~~fair~~rights-based, socially secure and voluntary labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are not treated abusively; calls, therefore, for a full implementation of the principle of equal pay for equal work (and work of equal value) at the same work place, and for respect for collective agreements; rejects any attempt of Member State governments or the Commission to discriminate workers from EU or third countries by excluding them from in-work benefits; rejects any attempt to revise the regulations 883/2004 and 987/2009 in a way that reduces access of EU and EFTA citizens to social benefits;

Amendment 389 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, to combat fraud and ensur~~ing~~e that EU mobile workers are not treated abusively;

Amendment 39 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Jutta STEINRUCK, Brando BENIFEI, Georgi PIRINSKI, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed; highlighting the need for further structural reforms which at the same time promote flexibility in the labour markets and security for the employed; Whereas employment has increased in the EU28 by 0.8 % and in the Eurozone by 0.4 % in 2014;

Amendment 390 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility~~, ensuring that EU~~ since the free movement of workers is a fundamental right in the EU, ensuring that no worker is left uncovered by social and labour rights protection, including mobile workers, a~~re not treated abusively~~nd guaranteeing the principle of equal treatment while safeguarding wages and social standards;

Amendment 391 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a concrete plan on how the European Semester will be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;

Amendment 392 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support labour mobility all around Europe as a way to create new job opportunities for workers and to provide labour for companies; Calls for the Member States to use and to promote the European tools available to facilitate this labour mobility, especially the European jobs network EURES; In cross border regions where the labour mobility is really high, encourages Member States to develop EURES cross-border partnerships to help workers in their mobility projects;

Amendment 393 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a concrete plan on how the European Semester will be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in particular by assessing access to quality community-based services for all people in Europe;

Amendment 394 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a concrete plan on how the European Semester will be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; in particular by assessing access to quality community-based services for all people in Europe;

Amendment 395 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Jutta STEINRUCK, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. States that social dialogue is a key instrument for improving working conditions and that in order to ensure the best conditions possible for the dialogue between social partners, a precondition in this context is the existence of strong trade unions, the participation of employees in company matters and a strengthening of collective agreements; calls on the Commission and Member States to boost the quality of social dialogue also at the European level ensuring timely and meaningful social partner consultations, allowing for the necessary analysis and integration of proposals in decision making processes.

Amendment 396 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria João RODRIGUES, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)

30 b. calls for the promotion of a socially just corporate governance framework at the European level as a way to reducing inequalities, focusing on promoting greater economic democracy putting in place and strengthening legislation requiring employee representatives on company boards and remuneration committees, systems of tax advantages to employee owned companies, cooperatives and mutuals, as well as funds providing loans to assist employee-buy outs.

Amendment 397 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Jutta STEINRUCK, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)

30 c. calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce their efforts to tackle social and wage dumping in the EU, which causes significant harm to the workers affected and to Member State welfare systems; calls, furthermore, for the social partners to be included at all levels in these efforts;

Amendment 398 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Jutta STEINRUCK, Elena GENTILE, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

~~Better coordinat~~Strengthen the Social Dimension of the Euro~~pean Semester~~zone

Amendment 399 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. ~~Welcome~~Regrets the Commission recommendation on the euro area, which ~~consolidates the joint analysis and definition of strategies of the social and economic dimensions of Member States under EMU, stress~~is still based on the dogma of fiscal consolidation, the irreversibility of the single currency and the neoliberal policy prescriptions, which clearly fail to support economic growth, employment and convergence ing the ~~need for these criteria to be reconciled~~euro area, thereby prolonging the never-ending economic and social crisis;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

- Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms in some Member States; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long- term unemployed;

Amendment 400 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. ~~Welcom~~Urges the Commission recommendation on the euro area, which consolidates the joint analysis and definition of strategies of the social and economic dimensions of Member States under EMU, stressing the need for these criteria to be reconciledto provide a way out of the failing project of the euro currency;

Amendment 401 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Commission recommendation on the euro area, which consolidates the joint analysis and definition of strategies of the social and economic dimensions of Member States under EMU, stressing the need for these criteria to be reconciled; however, warns about the development of a two-tier EU;

Amendment 402 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. ~~Welcomes~~Calls on the Commission ~~recommendatio~~to develop a plan on how the eEuro ~~area, which consolidates the joint analysis and definition of strategies of the social and economic dimensions of Member States under EMU, stressing the need for these criteria to be reconciled;~~pean Semester could be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; in particular by assessing access to quality community- based services for all people in Europe.

Amendment 403 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31 a. Calls on the Commission to provide adequate monitoring and follow-up of the implementation of the country-specific recommendations and ensure adequate focus on employment and social inclusion issues;

Amendment 404 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31 a. Requests a stronger role for the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth, its targets, particularly social ones reflected equally in all the Semester instruments including the CSRs;

Amendment 405 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31 a. Rejects the establishment of National Competitiveness Boards as new bureaucratic institutions to interfere in collective bargaining at national level;

Amendment 406 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31 a. Believes that the Eurozone recommendation needs to be the starting point for a broader economic policy debate involving Member States and EU institutions; invites all relevant stakeholders to explore all options to strengthen the EMU social dimension. In this sense:

Amendment 407 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) – point a (new)

(a) enhanced democratic accountability mechanisms at both the EU and national levels, whereby responsibilities must be assumed at the level where decisions are taken and based on the adoption of convergence guidelines under co- decision, while formalising the scrutiny role of the European Parliament in the European Semester in an Inter- Institutional Agreement and ensuring that all euro area National Parliaments follow each step of the European Semester process;

Amendment 408 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) – point b (new)

(b) a social dimension aimed at preserving Europe´s social market economy including a European framework on minimum wages, in a legal or conventional form while respecting national practices;

Amendment 409 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) - point c (new)

(c) joint meetings between the EPSCO Council and the ECOFIN to be held with a view to promoting coordinated socio- economic policies geared towards strengthening competitiveness in Europe and giving growth and quality jobs a sustainable boost;

Amendment 41 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies, low energy costs which have increased spending power and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high in many Member States, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed;

Amendment 410 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) – point d (new)

(d) meetings of the Eurozone Labour and Social Ministers so as to better integrate its social dimension and properly address social imbalances;

Amendment 411 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) – point e (new)

(e) the creation of European automatic Stabilizers, like a European unemployment benefit scheme, with the aim of increasing the resilience of the EMU, to address economic crises and emergencies connected directly to the Monetary Union;

Amendment 412 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) – point f (new)

(f) a euro area fiscal capacity based on specific own-resources in the framework of the Union budget with European parliamentary control;

Amendment 413 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31a (new) – point g (new)

(g) on taxation, a commitment to European-wide measures against tax fraud and evasion and aggressive corporate tax planning, cooperation of the national tax authorities in order to exchange information regarding tax avoidance and tax fraud, measures to bring about convergence of taxation policies of the Member States, a common consolidated corporate tax base, simpler and more transparent tax systems and country-by-country reporting for corporates, excluding SMEs;

Amendment 414 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Georgi PIRINSKI, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)

31 b. Calls on the Commission to present as soon as possible the proposal for a Pillar of Social rights, as a way to guarantee social and labour rights and to foster upward economic and social convergence in order to tackle the economic and social disparities between Member States and within societies;

Amendment 415 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6 a (new)

Better coordination of the European Semester (This amendment intends to be the title of the section starting from original paragraph 32 onwards)

Amendment 416 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

Amendment 417 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that the Commission has clearly distinguished a European and a national phase with regard to the European Semester; ~~stresses the need for closer coordination between the European institutions in the design, implementation and evaluation of the European strategy for growth;~~ calls on the Commission to establish a clear agenda ~~in this respect~~, also involving the social partners and the national parliaments;

Amendment 418 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

Amendment 419 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Maria João RODRIGUES, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has clearly distinguished a European and a national phase with regard to the European Semester; stresses the need for closer coordination between the European institutions in the design, implementation and evaluation of the European strategy for sustainable and inclusive growth; calls on the Commission to establish a clear agenda and guidelines in this respect, also involving the social partners, civil society and the national parliaments; believes that the Commission could monitor and report whether suggestions to implement certain Country Specific Recommendations in 'consultation with the social partners' were taken up;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment rate has been ~~diminishing since~~slowly and unevenly diminishing since the second half of 2013, thanks to ~~supportive~~ macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms there has been a distribution of the working time through the increase in precarious work and, in many countries, this reduction has also caused the decrease of the labour force; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed and over 10% in the Euro area, being still well above the figures of 2008;

Amendment 420 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Maria João RODRIGUES, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

Amendment 421 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has clearly distinguished a European and a national phase with regard to the European Semester; stresses the need for closer coordination between the European institutions in the design, implementation and evaluation of the European strategy for growth; calls on the Commission to establish a clear agenda in this respect, also involving the social partners and the national parliaments, social partners and civil society, ensuring that the Spring European Council remains the central movement where policy priorities are defined on the basis of the input from the Commission, the Parliament and the Council;

Amendment 422 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a concrete plan on how the European Semester will be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; in particular by assessing access to quality community-based services for all people in Europe;

Amendment 423 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32 a. Urges the Commission to launch negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Council on an interinstitutional agreement on economic governance, as repeatedly demanded by the European Parliament and as suggested by the Five Presidents' report;

Amendment 424 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

Amendment 425 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Believes that, in order to match European and national policies on growth and guarantee their suitability on the ground, it is crucial to strengthen the role of the social partners at both European and national level; stresses that, in order to progress with upward convergence and balance competitiveness and fairness, social dialogue must be pursued in all the phases of the Semester; reminds however that the social dialogue is important but not sufficient in order to actually implement growth and employment oriented policies, while an immediate exemption from existing budgetary rules concerning productive investments and minimum income is essential;

Amendment 426 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Believes that, in order to match European and national policies on growth and guarantee their suitability on the ground, it is crucial to strengthen the role of all stakeholders in the process including civil society, national parliaments and the social partners at both European and national level; stresses that, in order to progress with convergence and balance competitiveness and fairness, social and civil dialogue must be pursued in all the phases of the Semester and in the design, delivery and monitoring of policies;

Amendment 427 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Believes that, in order to match European and national policies on growth and guarantee their suitability on the ground, it is crucial to strengthen the role of the social partners at both European and national level; stresses that, in order to progress with convergence and balance competitiveness and fairness, social dialogue must be pursued in all the phases of the Semester; In this sense, welcomes the European Commission's efforts to relaunch social dialogue and the streamlined approach introduced by the AGS 2015. However, points out that the situation remains weak at national level. In this sense, highlights the importance of national parliaments debating country reports and country-specific recommendations and voting on national reform programmes and of a proper consultation and association with social partners;

Amendment 428 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Georgi PIRINSKI, Javi LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33 a. Believes that the Commission could strengthen the role of the European Semester Officers by better defining their objectives and functions;

Amendment 429 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33 a. Believes that the social partners should have more involvement in the Annual Growth Survey, the country reports and the discussions in EMCO, the SPC and the informal EPSCO; believes that the Commission could monitor and report whether suggestions to implement certain Country Specific Recommendations in consultation with social partners were taken up;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas in order to reduce unemployment it is essential to take into account specific microeconomic circumstances and outline structural reforms whose social impact must be assessed before they enter into force;

Amendment 430 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33 a. Believes that the Commission could strengthen the role of the European Semester Officers by better defining their objectives and functions.

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas economic recovery has now entered its third year with a growth forecast for the EU28 of 2 % in 2016 and of 1,8 % in the Eurozone;

Amendment 45 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas the effects of the Eurozone- crisis, especially high public and private debt, have yet to be solved and continue to have a negative economic and social effect on the economies of the EU; whereas the Eurozone continues to be susceptible to asymmetric economic shocks and lags behind the rest of Europe in regards to economic growth;

Amendment 46 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. Whereas fiscal consolidation in the EU28 is improving with the general budget deficit decreasing from 4,5 % in 2011 to 2,5 % in 2015;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. Whereas, as stated by the European Commission1 a , employment and social divergences within and between Member states persists and social developments still point to further divergence across the EU hindering growth, employment and cohesion; whereas societies which are characterised by a high level of equality and investment in people do better in terms of growth and employment resilience. __________________ 1a Joint employment report 2016 page 2

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

- – having regard to the 2014 Communication from the Commission on Effective and Accessible and Resilient, Health Systems (COM (2014) 215 final)

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas many young people do either enroll for additional graduate studies in an effort to escape unemployment or leave their home country to seek jobs in other Member States; whereas these two cases are not covered by national statistics on youth unemployment; whereas the actual unemployment rate might therefore be higher than the official one;

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas the level of unemployment and its social consequences differs between European countries;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas up to 12.4 million people have been out of work for more than a year and, of those, 6 million for more than two years; whereas long-term unemployment has a negative impact on economic growth and social welfare systems and can become a structural problem affecting entire generations;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. Whereas the employment rate of women (63.5% in May 2015) remains far below the Europe 2020 headline target of 75% and women's part-time employment rate remains excessively high at 32.2% compared to men 8.8% and thus more robust measures are required to narrow these gaps;

Amendment 54 #

Ulrike TREBESIUS, Amjad BASHIR, Anthea McINTYRE, Joachim STARBATTY, Helga STEVENS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas only half of workers between 55 and 65 are in employment and long- term unemployment is particularly prevalent among younger and older employees;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. Whereas the primary responsibility for tackling youth unemployment rests with the Member States in terms of developing and implementing labour market regulatory frameworks, education and training systems and active labour market policies;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas the loss of human capital due to unemployment is huge and whereas the total cost of youth unemployment has been estimated at 153 billion Euros a year1 a ; __________________ 1a http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocu ments/SR15_03/SR15_03_EN.pdf #8

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas employment rate in EU-28 increased by 0.8 percentage points whilst there are considerable differences in the performances of European countries, with five countries having reduced their employment rates in at least five percentage points between 2009 and 2014;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

B c. whereas about 5% of the labour force in EU28 in 2014 had been unemployed for more than a year and 3.1% of labour force had been unemployed for more than 2 years.

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)

B d. whereas, in addition to its financial and social effects, unemployment, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment negatively affect social convergence and ultimately hinder sustainable economic growth;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

- Having regard to the Commission's Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (October 2008),

Amendment 60 #

Sven SCHULZE, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skills while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required skills, whereas low educational level is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs; whereas it is essential to identify the root causes of early school leaving and determine whether the increase of unemployment among parents is likely to lead to an increase in early school leaving cases;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic ~~skills~~digital skills and 40 % of the EU population can be considered insufficiently digitally skilled, while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required digital skills, whereas low educational level is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;

Amendment 64 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skills while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required skills, ~~whereas low~~besides the difficulties faced, specially by youth, to enter the labour market; whereas the lack of adjustment between the labour market and education~~al level~~ is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas many Member States cut funding in the education sector, hampering quality education, putting pressure on pay and working conditions of teachers, and increasing precarious contractual arrangements for teachers and employees in the education sectors; whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skills while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required skills, whereas low educational level ~~is one of~~and a lack of comprehensive social inclusion measures are the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;

Amendment 66 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skills while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required skills although this is also linked to their unwillingness to offer long-term contracts, whereas low educational level is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;

Amendment 67 #

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas there are approximately 2 million unfilled vacancies in the EU, of which almost 900.000 are in the digital sector, which hampers economic growth and job-creation; whereas in 2012 one in three Europeans were either over- or under-qualified for their job; whereas this mis-match negatively affects growth;

Amendment 68 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Brando BENIFEI, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Maria João RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas the discrimination of long- term unemployed job seekers is unfortunately very common: whereas such practices are based on the psychological stigma associated with unemployment and result in employers to perceiving jobless and older applicants as less competent and less hireable than employed individuals; whereas there is a need for employers to train human resource managers to overcome their biases against unemployed workers and older workers and to focus on qualifications and experience rather than the current employment status.

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas undeclared work hadeprives workers of their social and labour rights and fosters social dumping; entails serious budgetary implications and leads to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions, as it produces negative effects on employment, productivity and quality of work, skills development and lifelong learning, as well as on the acquisition of pension rights and access to healthcare;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 b (new)

- – having regard to the 2014 report of the Social Protection Committee entitled 'Adequate social protection for long-term care needs in an ageing society'

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas undeclared work has serious budgetary implications and leads to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions, as it produces negative effects on employment, productivity and quality of work, skills development and lifelong learning, as well as on ~~the acquisition~~efficient and effective system of pension rights and access to healthcare;

Amendment 71 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas undeclared work has serious ~~budgetary~~ implications ~~and leads to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions~~, as it produces negative effects on employment, productivity and quality of work, skills development and lifelong learning, as well as on the acquisition of pension rights ~~and~~particularly for women as demonstrated by the EU average pension gap of 39%, access to healthcare; and budgetary implications due to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions; whereas an inadequate basic income can encourage people not to declare all income

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas undeclared work ~~has~~does not only have serious budgetary implications and leads to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions, ~~as it~~it also produces negative effects on employment, productivity and quality of work, skills development and lifelong learning, as well as on the acquisition of pension rights and access to healthcare; whereas there is a need for more efforts to turn undeclared work into declared work

Amendment 73 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~although~~ atypical or non- standard forms of employment ~~do not in themselves constitute precarious work, it is more likely to be found~~are continuously increasing, especially in Member States that implemented labour market reforms with a negative effect on worker's rights; whereas contracts of this nature a~~pply, albeit such contracts account for a minority of existing employment relationships~~re one of the root causes of precarious work, as they are often fix-termed and occur with no sufficient protection against dismissal, a lack of social security, insufficient contributions to pension schemes, and the absence of works council and trade union representation;

Amendment 74 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Guillaume BALAS, Maria João RODRIGUES, Elena GENTILE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas a~~lthough atypical~~typical, precarious or non- standard forms of employment ~~do not in themselves constitute precarious work, it is more likely to be found where contracts of this nature apply, albeit such contracts account for a minority of existing employment relationships;~~are significantly on the rise; whereas it is important to stimulate quality jobs which provide adequate income and security for families.

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas although atypical or non- standard forms of employment do not in themselves constitute precarious work, it is more likely to be found where contracts of this nature apply~~, albeit~~; to avoid inappropriate use of such contracts, a~~ccount for a minority of existing e~~n efficient and effective labour inspection mechanism must be imployement ~~relationships~~ed;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas although atypical or non- standard forms of employment do not in themselves constitute precarious work, it is more likely to be found where contracts of this nature apply, a~~lbeit~~nd such contracts, including zero-hour contracts, account for a ~~minority~~growing number of existing employment relationships;

Amendment 79 #

Siôn SIMON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 b (new)

- Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

Amendment 80 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Guillaume BALAS, Brando BENIFEI, Maria João RODRIGUES, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

Amendment 81 #

Romana TOMC

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

Amendment 82 #

Siôn SIMON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas high-quality skilled jobs with employment security are required to help tackle unemployment across the EU as opposed to precarious work;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas the most precarious work involves the inability of individuals to enforce their rights, where social insurance protection is absent, where health and safety is put at risk and where work does not provide sufficient income to enable people to live decently; whereas Insecurity is another key element of precariousness and it encompasses work uncertainty, income insufficiency, lack of protection against dismissal, an unknown length of employment and where there is uncertainty about future employment

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation, 7 million more than when the commitments for the Europe 2020 target were made; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion; whereas in 2012 32.2 million persons with disabilities over 16 years are in this situation;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Amendment 87 #

Marek PLURA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the number of people experiencing poverty in the EU is increasing, with almost 123 million people in the EU ~~are~~ in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of ~~falling into~~ poverty or social exclusion;

Amendment 9 #

Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 c (new)

- - Having regard to the Commission's Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (October 2008),

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation, of whom 32.2 million persons with disabilities in 2012; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Amendment 92 #

Gabriele ZIMMER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas this objective is far from being achieved and almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas - although one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion - poverty rates in the EU have increased even further and are at an unacceptably high level; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of ~~falling into~~ poverty or social exclusion; whereas homelessness is increasing in a majority of Member States;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060; ~~whereas these factors may appear as sufficient justification for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important to restructure their pensions systems;~~ __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 96 #

Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Javi LÓPEZ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Maria João RODRIGUES, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060; whereas these factors, as well as ageing population, may appear as sufficient justification ~~for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important~~ to restructure their pensions systems; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060; whereas these factors ~~may appear as sufficient justification for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important to restructure their pensions systems~~justify the need of public authorities to guarantee the sufficiency and adecuacy of the first pension pillar in the short and medium term; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.

Amendment 98 #