2020/2244(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Asserts that the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is reshaping the European Semester process; underlines that the two processes should be fully coordinated towards building resilience and supporting ~~the recovery from the impact of the~~ a sustainable, fair and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 crisis; reminds that the crisis further widened social inequalities, as labour market shocks triggered by the sanitary crisis have a stronger impact for those categories of workers that are already in a position of disadvantage1a; highlights the importance of wage compensation schemes that contributed to mitigating lay-offs and reduced working time, which have been impacting millions of workers in the EU; reminds also that the provision of public services has been put under high levels of strain due to the pandemic and that stresses that ensuring access to affordable and high quality services is a key element of a just recovery; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=COVID- 19 ~~crisis;~~_labour_effects_across_the_income_dis tribution&oldid=503441#A_EU_level_ove rview

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Stresses that the gender employment gap, the gender pay gap and the gender pension gap remain extremely high; underlines that improving employment opportunities for women as well as for vulnerable and marginalised groups, ensuring equal pay and facilitating a good work-life balance are vital for the achievement of fair, inclusive and sustainable growth; highlights the importance of the implementation and integration of gender mainstreaming as a horizontal principle in all EU activities, policies and programmes; calls on the Commission to accelerate the introduction of an effective, transparent, comprehensive, result-oriented and performance-based methodology for all MFF programmes;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1 d. Recalls that the COVID-19 crisis has put Member States’ public health systems under unprecedented stress; underlines that the pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges related to the capacity, accessibility, effectiveness and resilience of public health systems, caused by insufficient financing and investments for public healthcare, limited coordination and integration of care, weak primary care, persisting obstacles to access to healthcare and unmet needs for adequate healthcare personnel; calls for the establishment of a strong European Health Union to better protect peoples’ health, better prevent and address health crises and improve the capacity and resilience of public health systems;

Amendment 12 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1 e. Welcomes the positive steps regarding the development of COVID-19 vaccines, but is worried about reported cases of non-compliance with vaccine delivery schedules and possible shortages of available quantities; calls for COVID- 19 vaccines to be treated in practice as public goods that are guaranteed for all; calls on the Commission to overcome the barriers and restrictions arising from patents and intellectual property rights in order to ensure the widespread production of vaccines and their timely distribution to all Member States and to all people;

Amendment 13 #

Erik BERGKVIST

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the area of social and employment policies, Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the EU budget can play a subsidiary but instrumental role in triggering, bundling and directing investments towards social development and resilience; appreciates that this role will be enhanced by better coordination of national policies towards overarching EU objectives such as the European Green Deal, the digital transition and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Gender Equality Strategy. Nevertheless, the Commission shall work closely together with the relevant authorities of the Member States in order to ensure the highest possible absorption rate from funds available in NGEU;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the area of social and employment policies, Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the EU budget can play a subsidiary but instrumental role in triggering, bundling and directing investments towards social development and resilience~~; appreciates that this role will be enhanced by~~ resilience and to promote innovative actions; and calls for better coordination of national policies towards overarching EU objectives such as the European Green Deal, the digital transition and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals ~~and~~, the EU Gender Equality Strategy and Barcelona targets for high quality and affordable childcare and early childhood education;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the area of social and employment policies, Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the EU budget can play a subsidiary but instrumental role in triggering, bundling and directing investments towards social development and resilience; ~~appreciates tha~~worries about this role will be enhanced by better coordination of national policies towards overarching EU objectives such as the European Green Deal, or the digital transition ~~and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Gender Equality Strategy;~~.

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the area of social and employment policies, Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the EU budget can play a subsidiary but instrumental role in triggering, bundling and directing investments towards social development and resilience; appreciates that this role will be enhanced by better coordination of national and European policies towards overarching EU objectives such as the European Green Deal, the just green and digital transitions and the full implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Gender Equality Strategy;

Amendment 17 #

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the area of social and employment policies, Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the EU budget can play a subsidiary but instrumental role in triggering, bundling and directing sustainable investments towards social development and resilience; appreciates that this role will be enhanced by better coordination of national policies and investments towards overarching EU objectives such as the European Green Deal, the digital transition and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Gender Equality Strategy;

Amendment 18 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Olivier CHASTEL, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Martin HOJSÍK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the area of social and employment policies, Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the EU budget can play a subsidiary but instrumental role in triggering, bundling and directing investments towards social development, in particular education, and resilience; appreciates that this role will be enhanced by better coordination of national policies towards overarching EU objectives such as the European Green Deal, the digital transition and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Gender Equality Strategy;

Amendment 19 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Olivier CHASTEL, Fabienne KELLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Highlights that women have been over-proportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as not only are they the majority of workers in the care sector, including health care across the EU, but also they also often faced the challenge to balance unpaid care work with their employment responsibilities, which is especially difficult for single mothers or those with small children; moreover, women are overrepresented in the sectors most affected by lockdowns of the economy, such as retail, hospitality, education, personal care or tourism; therefore, underlines that the European Semester process, and by extension the preparation and approval of national recovery plans under the RRF need to counter this by responding specifically to needs of women with relevant measures;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Asserts that the Recovery and Resilience Facility is reshaping the European Semester process and stimulating reforms that create jobs; underlines that the two processes should be fully coordinated towards building resilience and supporting the recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis; stresses that such resilience should be ensured in such sectors as healthcare and critical transport infrastructure to strengthen the preparedness for economic shocks; highlights that upskilling, crisis- preparedness and adequate availability of employees in critical infrastructure sectors play a key role in avoiding disruptions; calls for the cooperation at all governance levels to ensure crisis- preparedness plans with adequate financing, which would include inter alia algorithms of staff and resources mobilisation in emergency situations;

Amendment 20 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Underlines that the green and digital transitions pose both great opportunities and huge challenges for the Union and for its Member States, regions, cities, businesses, workers, local communities and people; recalls that not all Member States and regions have the same starting point when it comes to the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy and that the digital gap remains still very high with wide divergences among Member States; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take all necessary measures in order to allow for just and socially-balanced green and digital transitions;

Amendment 21 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Olivier CHASTEL, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Martin HOJSÍK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Stresses that vocational training systems provide youth and those who lost their jobs during the crisis with a reliable pathway towards long-term employment, which is a crucial step in overcoming the crisis;

Amendment 22 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Olivier CHASTEL, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Moritz KÖRNER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Underlines that the access to digital infrastructure is still limited for certain groups of the population, stresses therefore the need to increase financing of digitalisation efforts to make sure that all economic actors and consumers have equal access to digital tools;

Amendment 23 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the importance of 3. horizontal coordination between EU programmes and national measures for social justice and combating the risk of poverty, including child-poverty, in-work poverty, a lack of employable skills, and income inequalities, the reformed European Social Fund being the prime example; holds, however, that the social and employment impact should be a transversal consideration across all expenditure programmes;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the importance of horizontal coordination between EU programmes and national measures for social justice, equality, social development and combating the risk of poverty and social exclusion, , the reformed European Social Fund being the prime example; holds, however, that the social and employment impact should be a transversal consideration across all expenditure programmes;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the importance of horizontal coordination between EU programmes and national measures for social justice and combating the risk of poverty and the social exclusion, the reformed European Social Fund being the prime example; ~~holds, however,~~strongly underlines at the same time that the social and employment impact should be a transversal consideration across all expenditure programmes;

Amendment 26 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Moritz KÖRNER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Stresses that the partnership of public and private financial institutions has an important potential in providing income to the workers who are most seriously affected by the crisis, particularly those employed by SMEs in the sectors of culture, education, tourism and HORECA (hotels, restaurants, cafés);

Amendment 27 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes that the European Court of Auditors has repeatedly called for increased horizontal coordination between EU programs to manage joint issues;

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that the EU budget’s backstop and borrowing and lending functions, and notably the SURE scheme, are perfect examples of how the credit capacity and reputation of the EU budget can be used to support Member State actions in line with European priorities in the exceptional circumstance of an unprecedented health and economic crisis in the history of the EU;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Points out that the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility is not meant to substitute recurring national budgetary expenditure; urges the Member States to implement ambitious, holistic and inclusive national programmes to effectively address longstanding shortcomings in social protection policies and employment along with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis;

Amendment 3 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Asserts that the Recovery and Resilience Facility is reshaping the European Semester process; underlines that the two processes should be fully coordinated towards building resilience and supporting the ~~recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis;~~ fair, inclusive and sustainable recovery from the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis; stresses, however, that the European Semester process has proved insufficient to address social and employment imbalances and inequalities in Europe; calls on the Commission and the Member States to urgently reform the financial legal framework and the European Semester process in order to effectively promote fair, inclusive and sustainable growth, build a truly social Europe and enhance democratic accountability;

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Highlights that the decline in remittances has significantly affected GDP indicators of some Member States, putting households at the risk of poverty; stresses that the European Semester process should give major attention to migrant workers and the social security coordination systems;

Amendment 31 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Olivier CHASTEL, Fabienne KELLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Stresses that the EU’s growth strategy should reduce systemic imbalances among EU Member States and within each of them, particularly addressing growth-enhancing reforms, low spending on investments and unequal access to healthcare, including e- healthcare services; stresses that additional financial resources should be allocated for the infrastructure, education, healthcare and social services in rural areas;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets that the limited size of the EU budget means that its redistribution and stabilisation functions are also limited; deplores the major cuts in the fields of cohesion and social policies, especially in the financial envelopes of the Cohesion Fund and the European Social Fund for the period 2021-2027, deriving from the Council agreement on the MFF and the NGEU in July 2020; stresses that it is all the more important to take full advantage of all possibilities under the multiannual financial framework (MFF), the NGEU and the own resources system to support national recovery, social justice, and environmental, economic, social and inclusive resilience and boost social policies and investments.

Amendment 33 #

Nils UŠAKOVS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets that the limited size of the EU budget, together with its expenditure driven nature and being subject to the principle of equilibrium, means that its redistribution and stabilisation functions are also very limited; stresses that it is all the more important to take full advantage of all possibilities under the multiannual financial framework (MFF), the NGEU and the own resources system to support national recovery, social justice, and environmental, economic, social and inclusive resilience. ; while also strengthening the EU budget with a broader portfolio of own resources;

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Regrets that~~Endorses the limited size of the EU budget which means that its redistributionve and stabilis~~ation~~ing functions are also limited; ~~stresses that it is all the more important to take full advantage of all~~Notes the possibilities ~~under~~offered by the mMulti-annual fFinancial fFramework (MFF), and the NGEU ~~and the own resources system to support national recovery, social justice, and environmental, economic, social and inclusive resilience~~to support national recovery in the economic field.

Amendment 35 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets that the limited size of the EU budget means that its redistribution and stabilisation functions are also limited; stresses that it is all the more important to take full advantage of all possibilities under the multiannual financial framework (MFF), the NGEU and the own resources system to support ~~national~~inclusive recovery, social justice, and environmental, economic, social and in~~clusive~~stitutional resilience.

Amendment 36 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Questions the added value of the Technical Support Instrument in Member States where the advisory bodies within the Administration already fulfil this role ;

Amendment 37 #

Vlad GHEORGHE, Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Moritz KÖRNER, Martin HOJSÍK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Underlines that the delivery of financial resources under NGEU and MFF, as well as public and private resources aiming at recovery and resilience, should be done in the most swift manner in order to avoid further losses; stresses in this regard that the quality and effectiveness of public administration, its transparency and sound financial management are crucial for the implementation of the recovery resources; calls on the European Commission to assist national, regional and local public administration, where necessary, with specific expertise, digital and operational support, inter alia via the Technical Support Instrument.

Amendment 38 #

Nils UŠAKOVS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses how the social tracking methodology to be developed for the Recovery and Resilience Funds can play a key role to improve the European Semester in order to better incorporate social and environmental issues on an equal footing to fiscal coordination, by for example paying more attention to aggressive tax planning, poverty reduction, gender equality, social justice, social cohesion and upward convergence;

Amendment 39 #

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Emphasises the importance of involving the European Parliament and a more inclusive social dialogue with social partners, civil society, youth organisations, local and regional authorities in shaping the European Semester, including the Country Specific Recommendations.

Amendment 4 #

Nils UŠAKOVS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Asserts that the Recovery and Resilience Facility is reshaping the European Semester process; underlines that the two processes should be fully coordinated towards ~~building resilience and supporting the recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis;~~maximising synergies between common policies and strategic guidance at EU level and implementation at national level, as well as building resilience and strong social structures, strengthening gender equality and the gender mainstreaming of all public interventions and supporting the recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis by making use of the NGEU in an efficiently and targeted manner:

Amendment 40 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Deplores the macroeconomic conditionality in the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Common Provisions Regulation for shared management funds;

Amendment 5 #

Eero HEINÄLUOMA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

Amendment 6 #

Erik BERGKVIST

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Asserts that the Recovery and Resilience Facility is reshaping the European Semester process; underlines that the two processes should be fully coordinated towards building resilience ~~and~~, supporting the recovery ~~from the impact of~~while preserving jobs in the regions hardest hit by the the COVID-19 crisis;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Is very worried about the deep recession caused by the COVID-19 crisis, the substantial rise of unemployment, the extremely high youth unemployment that still remains twice as high as the overall rate, the millions of jobs lost, the abrupt fall in the hours worked per worker, the big loss of peoples’ income, the increasing in-work poverty, the millions of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion, the sharp increase in cases of domestic and gender-based violence, and the increasing disparities among Member States and their regions; calls on the Commission and the Member States to prioritise social justice, social and economic convergence, equality, social development and full high-quality employment and accelerate the full implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Is concerned about the increased right of scrutiny that the European Commission will have on the way in which the Member States spend the funds of the recovery plan in their amount and purpose, interfering through technical aspects, in the workings of national administrations and in the policies of Member States ;

Amendment 9 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Stresses that, in most Member States, the minimum income level falls below the poverty threshold; considers that the Commission proposal for adequate minimum wages is an important step for the protection of workers, the improvement of their working conditions and the fight against in-work poverty and wage inequality;

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2021/01/20 CULT 45 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. REmphasises the role of education and culture in the personal development and critical thinking of citizens, in social mobility, in the promotion of creativity and innovation, and in raising awareness for major collective challenges such as climate change, the digital transformation and paradigm-shifting technologies; recalls the objective of a continuous improvement of the EU’s and ~~the~~all Member States’ education, training and skills policies in order to deliver inclusive, accessible and high-quality education and comprehensive lifelong learning for all, from early childhood to older adults, and the upgrading of skills and reskilling, notably of people with lower levels of education, ~~and~~young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) and the long-term unemployed; upholds the need to prepare for the future impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on the labour market and public spheres, as well as on everyday life and on our personal and collective relationship with knowledge, learning and information; in this respect, reminds also the relevance of acquiring media literacy skills to combat disinformation and build an active digital citizenship;

Amendment 10 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is of the opinion that the unprecedented EU financial support for a post-COVID-19 recovery should strive for sustainable economic growth that is inclusive and benefit all equally, addressing structural socio-economic disadvantages, including disadvantages relating to early school leaving and school failure that limit the creation of qualified and well-paid jobs; reminds that continued schooling is closely linked to access to social protection systems that provide for the basic needs of children and their families, including high-quality nutrition and healthcare, access to adequate housing and quality public transport, among others; and emphasises that the European green and digital transition cannot be achieved without a gradual transformation of the education and training systems, which will need major investments;

Amendment 11 #

Andrea BOCSKOR, Iuliu WINKLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN, Peter POLLÁK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is of the opinion that the unprecedented EU financial support for a post-COVID-19 recovery should strive for sustainable economic growth that is inclusive and benefit all equally, addressing structural socio-economic disadvantages and emphasises that the European green and digital transition cannot be achieved without a gradual transformation of the education and training systems; emphasizes to learn from the Covid-19 crisis by applying the good practices (peer learning) of some countries in terms of using digital tools for education;

Amendment 12 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is of the opinion that the unprecedented EU financial support for a post-COVID-19 recovery should strive for sustainable economic growth that is inclusive and benefit all ~~equally~~, addressing structural socio-economic disadvantages between states and regions, and emphasises that the European green and digital transition cannot be effectively achieved without a gradual and comprehensive transformation of the education and training systems with a particular focus on those that are being left behind by the transition;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is of the opinion that the 2. unprecedented EU financial support for a post-COVID-19 recovery should strive for the recovery of lost jobs, sustainable economic growth that is inclusive and benefit all equally, addressing structural socio-economic disadvantages and emphasises that the European green and digital transition cannot be achieved without a gradual transformation of the education and training systems;

Amendment 14 #

Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the area of education as severe discrepancies in digital education exists between the member states, with 32% of pupils in some Member States not having had any access to education for several months, in this regard; is worried about the university and VET-students inability to follow their normal curricula, which will affect their already hindered access the labour market, whereas according to Eurostat, in 2018 26,3% of young people aged 16-29 years were already at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU1a; underlines that a green and digital transition in the EU should be based on fairness in society, and should address areas such as employment, skills and education and provide support and immediate help for the basic needs to those who have been hit hardest by the COVID- 19 pandemic, such as young ~~people~~generations, women and vulnerable groups; _________________ 1ahttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Young_people_- _social_inclusion

Amendment 15 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the area of education as severe discrepancies in digital education exists between the mMember sStates, with 32% of pupils in some Member States not having had any access to education for several months~~, in this regard~~; underlines that a green and digital transition in the EU should be based on fairness in society and better redistribution of wealth, and should address areas such as employment, skills and education and provide support to those who have been hit hardest by the COVID- 19 pandemic, such as young ~~people, women and vulnerable group~~generations, women, people with disabilities, single parents, the elderly and other vulnerable groups; stresses the role of school medicine and health education in mitigating the effects of pandemic outbreaks and in the prevention of and preparedness for future public health emergencies;

Amendment 16 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the area of education as severe discrepancies in digital education exists between the member states, with 32% of pupils in some Member States not having had any access to education for several months, ~~in this regard; underlines that a green and digital transition in~~due to a variety of reasons, both structural and material; underlines that a sustainable recovery of the EU should be based on fairness in society, and should address areas such as employment, skills and education and should strive to provide support to those who have been hit hardest by the COVID- 19 pandemic and the green and digital transition, such as young people, women and vulnerable groups, without leaving behind those that do not belong to a specific group but have nevertheless suffered from unemployment, lack of opportunities or investment;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Amendment 19 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on the Commission to better integrate education into the European Semester framework and to expand its current focus to include social objectives, digital education and the quality of the education provided, in order to assess the evolutions and reforms of the educational systems and consistently check the implementation of the EU action plans, agendas and recovery targets across the Union;

Amendment 2 #

Andrea BOCSKOR, Iuliu WINKLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN, Peter POLLÁK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Milan ZVER

1. Recalls the objective of a continuous improvement of the EU’s and the Member States’ education, training and skills policies in order to deliver quality education and comprehensive lifelong learning and the upgrading of skills and reskilling, notably of people with lower levels of education, and upholds the need to prepare for the future impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market and public spheres; whereas education is an investment in our common future, it positively impacts social cohesion as a pre-condition for economic growth, job creation and employment;

Amendment 20 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. 3. New. Recalls that the health care and economic crisis is having an impact on many economic sectors, being the cultural, tourism and sports heavily affected due to their dependence on live events.. Welcomes that the Recovery and Resilience Facility have taken into account that fact;

Amendment 21 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to develop National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) with a~~t least 25 %~~dequate earmarking for social investment,and to prioritise, ~~especially in the country- specific recommendations,~~ targeted investments in digital infrastructure and equipment for educational establishments and learners in order to enable equal access to distance and online learning for all children ~~with disabilities, and children from disadvantaged groups and remote and rural area~~; stresses the need for such infrastructure to be integrated with plans for hybrid learning, in order to ensure that children are able to learn in a social environment, in contact with their teachers and peers;

Amendment 22 #

Andrea BOCSKOR, Iuliu WINKLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to develop National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) with at least 25 % earmarking for social investment,and to prioritise, especially in the country-specific recommendations, targeted investments in digital infrastructure and equipment for educational establishments and learners in order to enable equal access to distance and online learning for children with disabilities, and children from disadvantaged groups and remote and rural areas and children with special educational needs;

Amendment 23 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to develop National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) with at least 25 % earmarking for social investment,and to prioritise, especially in the country-specific recommendations, targeted investments in digital infrastructure and equipment for educational establishments and learners in order to enable equal access to distance and online learning for children with disabilities, children with fewer opportunities, and children from disadvantaged groups and remote and rural areas;

Amendment 24 #

Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to develop National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) with at least 25 % earmarking for social investment,and to prioritise, especially in the country-specific recommendations, targeted investments in digital infrastructure and equipment for educational establishments and learners in order to enable equal access to distance and online learning for students and children with disabilities, and students and children from disadvantaged groups and remote and rural areas;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to develop National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) ~~with at least 25 % earmarking for social investment,and~~ to prioritise, especially in the country-specific recommendations, targeted investments in digital infrastructure and equipment for educational establishments and learners in order to enable equal access to distance and online learning for children with disabilities, and children from disadvantaged groups and remote and rural areas;

Amendment 26 #

Salima YENBOU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to develop National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) with at least 25 % earmarking for social investment,and to prioritise, especially in the country-specific recommendations, targeted investments in digital infrastructure and equipment for educational establishments and learners in order to enable equal access to distance and online learning for children and young people with disabilities, ~~and children~~ from disadvantaged groups, and remote and rural areas;

Amendment 27 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Welcomes the inclusion within the European Semester exercise of the components referring to the specific activities in the education, culture, sport and media sectors of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF); Calls on the Commission to monitor closely Member States progress reports on the implementation of the NRRPs within the European Semester exercise in order to verify to what extent have the objectives of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) been met;

Amendment 28 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Calls on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)~~Notes the heavy toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on creative and cultural sectors and industries, including events and performances, cultural and heritage tourism, intangible cultural heritage practices, and the existential threat it represents to many artists and creative businesses; deplores that such impact on culture is not reflected in the European Commission communication on the EU annual sustainable growth strategy 2021 and asks the Commission and the Member States to identify and adopt specific initiatives to protect this field; more specifically, calls on the Member States to include a strong focus on culture with at least 2 % of the national RRF budget allocated to the CCSs, as the whole sector was among the most severely affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic; encourages the Member States to accelerate efforts to improve the social protection systems and the working conditions for the workforce in this sector;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to include a strong focus on culture with at least 25 % of the national RRF budget allocated to the CCSs, as the whole sector ~~was among the most severely affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic~~is and in the medium-term will continue being among the hardest hit, potentially the most severely affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic; Reiterates the fact that artists and CCS professionals today struggle to make ends meet in the current state of economic and social activity and have resorted to extraordinarily innovative digital solutions; Urges, therefore, the Member States to dedicate sufficient financial support to such solutions and to ensure they become and remain economically viable in the long term;

Amendment 3 #

Andrea BOCSKOR, Iuliu WINKLER, Peter POLLÁK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls the objective of a continuous improvement of the EU’s and the Member States’ education, training and skills policies in order to deliver quality education and comprehensive lifelong learning and the upgrading of skills and reskilling, notably of people with lower levels of education, and upholds the need to prepare for the future impact ~~of artificial intelligence~~ on the labour market and public spheres due to continuous technological progress, including from automation and artificial intelligence;

Amendment 30 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to integrate the recommendation made by the European Parliament to prioritize investments in education and training by allocating at least 10% of the national RRF budget to the sector in order to enable its adaptation to the new challenges generated by the pandemic and a fair digital and green transition;

Amendment 31 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to use the Recovery and Resiliaence Facility to establish the necessary conditions in order to ensure the possibilities for digital education across the whole European Union as a complementary tool for the in-person education, also with the aim of increasing the inclusiveness of education systems, with a particular focus on equal access to high-quality education and training for disadvantaged groups to compensate for the fact that socio-economic background is currently the most important determinant of children and young people’s educational outcome; is worried that the share of NEET young people has risen sharply and calls for targeted funding to allow for new opportunities for this vulnerable group; reminds the relevance of acquiring media literacy skills to build an active digital citizenship; recalls the EU Skills Agenda’s aim to ensure that 70 % of 16- to 74-year-olds have basic digital skills by 2025; bearing in mind that 42 % of Europeans still lack such basic digital skills, with significant disparities within and between the Member States and on the basis of socioeconomic status, age, income, education level and employment, urges the Commission to better integrate digital education into the European Semester exercise, taking into account not only the economic impact of education, but also social objectives, as well as quality of education; stresses further the need to address the significant gender gap in digital skills and tech sector jobs;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to use the Recover Resiliance Facility to establish the necessary conditions in order to ensure the possibilities for digital education across the whole European Union as a complementary tool for the in-person education, also with the aim of increasing the inclusiveness of education systems, with a particular focus on equal access to high-quality education and training for disadvantaged groups to compensate for the fact that socio-economic background is currently the most important determinant of children and young people’s educational outcome; calls on Member States, in this regard, to dedicate at least 10% to investments in quality and inclusive education from the Recovery and Resilience Facility’s funding;

Amendment 33 #

Andrey SLABAKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

Amendment 34 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to use the Recover Resiliance Facility to establish the necessary conditions in order to ensure the possibilities for digital and blended education across the whole European Union as a complementary tool for the in- person education, also with the aim of increasing the inclusiveness of education systems, with a particular focus on equal access to high-quality education and training for disadvantaged groups to compensate for the fact that socio- economic background is currently the most important determinant of children and young people’s educational outcome;

Amendment 35 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to use the Recover Resiliance Facility to establish the necessary conditions in order to ensure the possibilities for digital education across the whole European Union as a complementary tool for the in-person education, also with the aim of increasing the inclusiveness of education systems, with a particular focus on equal access to high-quality education and training for disadvantaged groups to compensate for the fact that socio-economic background is currently one of the most important determinant of children and young people’s educational outcome;

Amendment 36 #

Andrea BOCSKOR, Iuliu WINKLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN, Peter POLLÁK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Encourages Member States to make use of the Recovery Package to invest in digital equipment for schools in the EU, notably in excluded areas as every child should get an opportunity to access education;

Amendment 37 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to take the necessary measures to reinforce their digital infrastructure ~~and~~, the connectivity ofand educational methods used in schools and learning centres and accelerate reforms implementing the digital transformation ensuring that all Europeans can take advantage of it and with a particular effort to provide online education accessible to all, in this context reminds the necessity to adequately train the teachers ~~and~~, trainers and parents, whose role in digital transformation is crucial, for new formats such as distance and blended learning; points out the need to thoroughly assess the impact of overexposure to the digital world and calls for measures that promote better understanding of the risks posed by digital technologies which may affect children and young people in particular;

Amendment 38 #

Salima YENBOU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to take the necessary measures to reinforce their digital infrastructure and connectivity of schools and learning centres and accelerate reforms implementing the digital transformation ensuring that all Europeans can take advantage of it and with a particular effort to provide online education accessible to all, in this context reminds the necessity to adequately train the teachers and trainers, whose role in digital transformation is crucial; stresses that, in the long term, the accessibility to online education is not to be intended to replacement but to complement direct interaction between teachers and learners, as only in-person learning can effectively ensure the acquisition of interpersonal and social skills;

Amendment 39 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to take the necessary measures to reinforce their digital infrastructure and connectivity of schools, community and learning centres and accelerate reforms implementing the digital transformation ensuring that all Europeans can take advantage of it and with a particular effort to provide online education accessible to all, in this context reminds the necessity to adequately train the teachers and trainers, whose role in digital transformation is crucial; Urges the Commission to support those Member States that are further behind in establishing their digital infrastructure and connectivity, by making available additional expert consultation;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls the objective of a continuous improvement of the EU’s and the Member States’ education, training and skills policies in order to deliver quality ~~education~~, inclusive education, training and comprehensive lifelong learning and the upgrading of skills and reskilling, notably of people with lower levels of education, and upholds the need to prepare for the future impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market and public spheres;

Amendment 40 #

Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to take the necessary measures to reinforce their digital infrastructure and connectivity of schools, universities and learning centres and accelerate reforms implementing the digital transformation ensuring that all Europeans can take advantage of it and with a particular effort to provide online education accessible to all, in this context reminds the necessity to adequately train the teachers and trainers, whose role in digital transformation is crucial;

Amendment 41 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Welcomes that the Recovery and Resilience Facility supports the digital transition with a minimum level of 20% of expenditure related to digital, and in this regard stresses the need to ensure that a maximum number of EU citizens can benefit from gigabit society connectivity, including those living in rural and remote areas; stresses that broadband should be considered a public good and its infrastructure should be adequately funded in order to be universally accessible as a critical step in closing the digital divide as well as insure fair and just access to the digital economy;

Amendment 42 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7 b. Notes the need to pay specific attention to supporting the media sector, which plays a key role for our democracies, in a way that respects and promotes media freedom and pluralism at a time when the online environment is increasingly dominated by a few large players, with increasing market power and mobile tax bases, sometimes to the detriment of the ability of many smaller European companies to start-up and scale up across the Single Market, as highlighted in the European Commission communication on the EU annual sustainable growth strategy 2021; draws the attention of the Member States on specific measures set out in the Commission Media Action Plan unveiled on 3 December 2020 to help the broadcasting, news publishing and cinema sectors to recover from a big loss in advertising revenues due to the lockdown imposed by the pandemic and boost their production and distribution of digital content; considers that such measures should be part of the minimum 20% of expenditure of every National Recovery and Resilience Plan to be earmarked for digital;

Amendment 43 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to strengthen the recovery and the crisis resilience of the sport sector in general and grassroots sport in particular and to ensure the full access of sport to the Recovery and Resilience Facility; emphasis that sport fulfils important societal functions, by promoting inclusion, integration and values such as mutual respect, solidarity, diversity and equality including gender equality, it is beneficial for addressing and preventing the physical and mental health impact of extended home confinement and closure of schools; calls in this regard on the Commission to strengthen inclusion through sport and to explore new avenues to maximize its impact and reach;

Amendment 44 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to apply the “general escape clause” under the Stability and Growth Pact in order to allow Member States to deploy ambitious budgetary and fiscal policies, n~~ecessary~~otably by exempting social investment from the deficit rules, including investment in education and culture, in order to protect European citizens and businesses from the effects of the pandemic, and to support the economy in the aftermath, paving the way for fairer, greener and more sustainable societies;

Amendment 45 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to ~~apply the “general escape clause” under the Stability and Growth Pact in order to allow Member State~~recall the commitments established under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism regarding Member States,s National Recovery Plans to deploy ambitious budgetary and fiscal policies necessary to protect European citizens and businesses from the effects of the pandemic, and to support the economy in the aftermath;

Amendment 5 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls the objective of a continuous improvement of the EU’s and the Member States’ education, training and skills policies in order to deliver quality education and comprehensive lifelong learning and the upgrading of skills and reskilling, notably of people with lower levels of education and employability, and upholds the need to prepare for the future impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market and public spheres;

Amendment 6 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Stresses the need to deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), calls for the timely adoption of the Child Guarantee and a vigorous implementation by the Member States of the Youth Guarantee, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on quality education, so that everyone can afford quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning to be able to participate fully in society and join the labour market; urges the Commission to swiftly present an Action Plan for the implementation of the EPSR and to further refine the indicators of the Pillar’s Social Scoreboard, as well as their monitoring;

Amendment 7 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Calls on the Member States to include in their National Recovery and Resilience Plans ambitious investments at all levels of education, including vocational education, training, upskilling and reskilling, as a condition for an economic recovery which fosters social cohesion and tackles inequalities;

Amendment 8 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Stresses the need for the Member States to increase the mutual recognition and portability of skills, diplomas and personal qualifications in the internal labour market, thereby contributing to the building of a European Education Area that will improve labour mobility and enhance the international competitiveness of the EU economy;

Amendment 9 #

Manuel PIZARRO, Victor NEGRESCU, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Hannes HEIDE, Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1 d. Calls upon Member States to increase their GDP allocations for education and considers that the European Semester should better reflect the pace of education reforms that often do not adjust well to the semester temporal logic;

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Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

- having regard to the ILO Global Wage Report 2020-20211a, and the ILO Monitors on Covid 19 and the World of Work1b, _________________ 1a https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/bo oks/WCMS_762534/lang--en/index.htm 1b https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/coronavi rus/impacts-and- responses/WCMS_749399/lang-- en/index.htm

Amendment 10 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas according to the Commission’s autumn 2020 European economic forecast, EU GDP is forecast to contract by approximately 7.5 % in 2020 before rebounding by 4 % in 2021, and by a further 3 % in 2022, with the output in the European economy barely returning to pre-pandemic levels in 2022; whereas, according to this forecast, financial markets have held up well over the last few months, globally and in the EU, thanks mainly to central banks' massive liquidity provision around the world and this shows a ‘decoupling’ of the financial sphere from the real economy; whereas private consumption growth is, however, forecast to moderate in 2022, largely due to lingering uncertainty about job and income prospects which are likely to keep precautionary savings elevated; whereas, however, on the other hand, capital spending is set to benefit from highly accommodative monetary policies, increased public investment and targeted government support schemes for firms;

Amendment 100 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas, contrary to the crowding- out hypothesis that has prevailed in economic thinking for the last three decades, public investment and its crowding-in effects should play a central role in this new economic paradigm; whereas, it has been indicated that the recovery from the pandemic and the post- pandemic resilience plans must be coherent with the EU’s ambitions outlined in the European Green Deal;

Amendment 101 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas, contrary to the crowding- out hypothesis that has prevailed in economic thinking for the last three decades, public investment and its crowding-in effects should play a central role in ~~this new economic paradigm;~~ a totally different economic paradigm, namely counteracting the perverse effects of the rules of the stability pact;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

O a. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis has shown that fighting homelessness is a public health matter; whereas on any given night in the European Union an estimated 700 000 homeless people have to sleep on the street or in shelters, which is an increase of 70 % in the past 10 years;

Amendment 103 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

O a. whereas cohesion policy, as the EU’s main investment policy for social, economic and territorial development, has demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing inequalities and regional differences, in particular regarding the poorest regions;

Amendment 104 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN

Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)

O b. whereas social protection systems and labour market policies are deeply rooted in national traditions and there is great variation between the Member States, which should be maintained when working towards common social goals through the European Semester; whereas issues lacking a transnational dimension are dealt with at national level in line with TFEU146(2), 147(1), 151 and the principle of subsidiarity;

Amendment 105 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Recital O c (new)

O c. whereas the green transition and the digitalisation of the economy will involve substantial economic diversification and transformation of business models and policymaking; whereas that will create new opportunities as well as significant socio-economic challenges in many regions and industrial sectors; whereas the EU needs a common strategy to accompany workers and businesses concerned in order to ensure that no one is left behind;

Amendment 106 #

Guido REIL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the inclusion of the EPSR and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy (ASGS) 2021; calls for fairness and social rights to be given the same importance in the new economic model as macro-economic stability in a Social Union; Stresses that greening the economy and investing in more efficient healthcare systems will enhance Europe’s capacity to improve the well-being of the people living in the EU; emphasises the central role of the Social Scoreboard in the European Semester18 ; ; _________________ 18Social Score of Indicators. Eurostat 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/european -pillar-of-social-rights/indicators/social- scoreboard-indicators

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the inclusion of the EPSR in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy (ASGS) 2021; calls for fairness and social rights to be given the same importance in the new economic model as macro-economic stability; emphasises the central role of the Social Scoreboard in the European Semester18 ; notes with satisfaction that the Commission is looking into the possibility of developing a Sustainable Development Goal expenditure tracking methodology for the EU budget;19a _________________ 18Social Score of Indicators. Eurostat 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/european -pillar-of-social-rights/indicators/social- scoreboard-indicators 19aCommission staff working document “Delivering on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals- A comprehensive approach”, SWD (2020) 400 final.

Amendment 109 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the inclusion of the EPSR in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy (ASGS) 2021; ~~calls for fairness and social rights to be given the same importance in the new economic model as macro-economic stability;~~ emphasises the central role of the Social Scoreboard in the European Semester18 ; _________________ 18Social Score of Indicators. Eurostat 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/european -pillar-of-social-rights/indicators/social- scoreboard-indicators

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy didn't consider the scenario of a third or further pandemic waves which could even more exacerbate the current conditions of economic and social crisis;

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes th~~e inclusion of the EPSR~~at after 3 years of being approved the EPSR will be included in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy (ASGS) 2021; urgently calls for fairness and social rights to be given the same importance in ~~the~~a new social and economic model as macro-economic stability; emphasises the ~~central~~decisive role of the Social Scoreboard in the European Semester~~18 ; _________________ 18Social Score of Indicators. Eurostat 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/european -pillar-of-social-rights/indicators/social- scoreboard-indicators~~;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Reiterates its call for the transformative agenda of the European Green Deal to be put at the core of the renewed European Semester; urges the Commission to ensure, including through legislative proposals where appropriate, that all Member States’ socioeconomic, macroeconomic and fiscal policies contribute to and are fully consistent with the objectives and targets of the European Green Deal and that social and environmental targets and objectives related to SDGs are introduced in the framework of the multilateral surveillance procedure referred to in Article 121 TFEU as well as in the context of a reinforced macroeconomic imbalance procedure; considers that the inclusion of SDGs and the Social Pillar within the scope of the European Semester will require the adjustment of existing indicators and the creation of new ones to monitor the implementation of EU economic, environmental and social policies, as well as coherence between policy goals and budgetary means; notes the need to implement long-term planning to tackle climate change;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Underlines that the austerity measures adopted at EU and Member States level during the last decade have worsened the economic and social inequalities, with the most severe impact suffered by the most vulnerable citizens;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Believes that in order to overcome the current pandemic crisis it is necessary to undertake expansionary economic policies and, for this reason, the Fiscal Compact must be reviewed as it leads Member States to adopt increasingly drastic austerity measures, namely the opposite of what the EU and Member States need in this crucial phase, with the effect of fuelling the recession and worsening living conditions of citizens;

Amendment 115 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. States that 10 years after the introduction of the European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination, employment and social imbalances in Europe, such as labour market segmentation, wage dispersion and child poverty, have not been resolved but have worsened, demonstrating that public policies at the national level are insufficient for building a fairer European labour market, and that stronger and further-reaching policies at EU level are needed; strongly believes that European support must go beyond making funds available; highlights the importance of taking lessons from the current health and economic crisis, acting preventively from now on; urges the design and encouragement of measures to promote the high quality health systems in the EU with highly trained and well paid professionals;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. States that 10 years after the introduction of the European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination, employment and social imbalances in Europe, such as labour market segmentation, wage ~~dispersion and~~inequality and dispersion and poverty growing, namely child poverty, have not been resolved but have worsened, demonstrating that ~~public policies at the national level are insufficient for building a fairer European labour market, and that stronger and further-reaching policies at EU level are needed;~~ the country-specific recommendations, guided by the objectives of the Stability and Growth Pact, are detrimental to social inclusion and for building a fairer European labour market, and should thus be subject to significant reforms;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. States that 10 years after the introduction of the European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination, employment and social imbalances in Europe, such as labour market segmentation, wage dispersion and child poverty, have not been resolved ~~but have worsened~~and still persist, demonstrating that more impetus for public policies at the national level ~~are insufficient for building a fairer European labour market, and that stronger and further-reaching policies at EU level are needed~~is needed, and that improved coordination between Member States in essential; recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on the economic and social dimension of Member States;

Amendment 119 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. States that 10 years after the 2. introduction of the European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination, employment and social imbalances in Europe, such as labour market segmentation, wage dispersion and child poverty, have not been resolved but have worsened, demonstrating that austerity measures hamper the social and economic development, that the public policies at the national level are insufficient for building a fairer European labour market, and that stronger and further-reaching policies at EU level are needed;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas EU institutions have recognised in multiple occasions the need for actions addressing and tackling health inequalities and protecting people's health in the economic recession1a; _________________ 1a https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/docu ment/ST-11056-2020-INIT/en/pdf; https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/RC-9-2020-0216_EN.html

Amendment 120 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 122 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 123 #

Amendment 124 #

Jana TOOM, Radka MAXOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 125 #

Guido REIL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Sta~~Notes that 10 years after the introduction of the European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination, employment and social imbalances in Europe, such as labour market segmentation, wage dispersion and child poverty, have not been resolved but have worsened, demonstratiseveral Member States have a dysfunctional labour market, characterised by deep structural problems such as among other things a very high level of temporary employment and a high youth unemployment rate; calls on the Member States to reduce the early school- leaving rate, streng th~~at public policies at the national level are insufficient for building a fairer European labour market, and that stronger and further-reaching policies at EU level are needed~~en educational and vocational training for all ages, and support innovation; calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to tackle child poverty;

Amendment 126 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Stresses that the ASGS 2021 mentions delivering on the EU objective of competitive sustainability but that this is neither a concept defined as an objective in the EU Treaties nor does it feature in the UN SDGs; calls on the Commission, therefore, to deliver on the objectives defined in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), as well as to be more precise in the definition of resilience, understood beyond the ability not only to withstand and cope with challenges but also to undergo transitions in a sustainable, fair, and democratic manner1a; _________________ 1aCommission communication of 9 September 2020 entitled ‘2020 Strategic foresight report – Charting the course towards a more resilient Europe’ (COM(20200493).

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that the current process of evaluation is inefficient and without democratic control; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reform the financial legal framework and the European Semester process in order to strengthen democratic accountability and the involvement of the European Parliament and strengthen the role and participation of national social partners; stresses that the social progress objectives regarding social welfare and health systems and quality employment must be not only shielded from the application of macroeconomic conditionality but also enforced within the framework of the European Green Deal;

Amendment 128 #

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reform the financial legal framework and the European Semester process in order to strengthen democratic accountability and the involvement of the European Parliament; ~~stresses that the social progress objectives regarding social welfare systems and quality employment must be shielded from the application of macroeconomic conditionality;~~

Amendment 129 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas, in many Member States, the EU funds and programmes pursuant to the MFF 2014-2020 have not yet been fully implemented;

Amendment 130 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise its failure and reform the financial legal framework and the European Semester process in order to strengthen democratic accountability and the involvement of the European Parliament; stresses that the social ~~progress~~inclusion objectives regarding social welfare systems and quality employment must be ~~shield~~exempted from the application of macroeconomic conditionality and the Stability and Growth Pact;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reform the financial legal framework and the European Semester process in order to strengthen democratic accountability and the involvement of the European Parliament; stresses that the social progress objectives regarding social ~~welfare systems and~~, care and health systems as well as quality employment must be shielded from the application of macroeconomic conditionality;

Amendment 132 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reform the financial legal framework and the European Semester process in order to strengthen democratic accountability and the involvement of the European Parliament; stresses that the social progress ~~objective~~investments regarding social welfare systems and quality employment must be shielded from the application of macroeconomic conditionality;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Believes that the Sustainable Semester Process has to equally focus on the sustainability of three dimensions: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability; reiterates that social sustainability can only be achieved through the reduction of inequalities, offering social opportunities and shared prosperity; stresses that social justice, decent work with living wages, equal opportunities, fair mobility and robust social welfare systems are essential elements in the just transition to a sustainable and social Europe; calls on the Commission to carefully assess the dimensions of the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey so that they are fully in line with article 3 of the TEU, which establishes sustainable development as the objective the EU has to work for, based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on Member States to accelerate the implementation of EU programmes and funds pursuant to the MFF 2014-2020, while recalling that a low implementation rate may jeopardize the implementation of employment and social policies under the MFF 2021-2027 and the NGEU; furthermore, calls on Member States to urgently ratify the Council Decision 2020/2053, of 14 December 2020, while stressing that the implementation of the roadmap for the introduction of new own resources will be crucial to repay the expenditure under the EU Recovery Instrument without an undue reduction in EU expenditure or investment in employment and social policies under the MFF 2021-2027;

Amendment 135 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to do their utmost to fight against tax evasion and tax avoidance as well as to effectively counter harmful tax practices adopted by some Member States;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. SOCIAL DIMENSION WITHIN RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE FACILITY Welcomes the agreement for the establishment of a Recovery and Resilience Facility; highlights that the European Semester, including the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation; insists that reforms have to be based on solidarity, integration, social justice and a fair distribution of wealth, with the aim of creating quality employment and sustainable growth, ensuring equality of, and access to, opportunities and social protection, protecting vulnerable groups and improving the living standards of all citizens;

Amendment 137 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3 c. Stresses that creating quality employment is one of the objectives included in the Regulation and that this has to be done through ensuring stable contracts, decent wages, collective bargaining coverage and social protection floors, including decent pensions above the poverty threshold; calls on the Commission to include these indicators in the guidelines to assess social progress in the recovery and resilience plans; points out that labour market reforms undertaken in the national plans must go in line with the attainment of these objectives;

Amendment 138 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3 d. Recalls that the Commission outlined in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 and the European Semester Spring and Summer Package 2020, that the European Semester should help achieve the implementation of the European Green Deal, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 139 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3 e. Believes that robust welfare systems built on strong economic and social structures help Member States to respond more efficiently and in a fair and inclusive way to shocks and to recover more swiftly from them; highlights that Social Welfare Systems guarantee to European societies and citizens the integral services and economic benefits for a decent life, covering the following areas of intervention: Social Security, Healthcare, Education, Housing, Employment, Justice and Social Services for vulnerable groups, and that they play a key role in achieving social sustainable development, promoting equality and social justice; warns that during the COVID crisis, the Social Welfare Systems are under an unprecedented situation of stress and pressure, as they were not foreseen to cover the social demand in a context of healthcare and economic emergency; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the social welfare systems so that they can perform and assist the entire population, particularly in situations of crisis or systemic shocks, including by establishing targets for social investment, comparable to the digital and green investments;

Amendment 14 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas Eurofound shows that of particular concern is that the decline in employment headcount in the EU 27 in the first wave of the pandemic was associated with a greater outflow to inactivity than to unemployment and a resulting weakening of labour market attachment1a; _________________ 1aEurofound (2021, forthcoming) COVID-19: Some implications for employment and working life

Amendment 140 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 f (new)

3 f. Acknowledges that the Recovery and Resilience Facility might have an impact in the European Semester process; underlines that the coordination between the two processes has to be transparent and support the overarching EU objectives such as the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN SDGs, the EU Gender Equality Strategy, the European Green Deal and the digital transition;

Amendment 141 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 g (new)

3 g. Recalls that the Commission estimates the investment needed in social infrastructure in 192bn, with health and long-term care accounting for 62% of the investment needed (affordable housing 57bn, health 70bn, long-term care 50bn, education and life-long learning 15bn); highlights that social investment is important not only to support aggregate demand, but to support fairness, equality and sustainability; regrets that the MFF agreement does not reflect the serious social consequences of the covid-19 pandemic and the need for a robust response to invest in avoiding even further increase in unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, a response that leaves no one behind; calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious anti- poverty strategy including the European Child Guarantee with an increased budget, as well as the European Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme without delay;

Amendment 142 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 h (new)

3 h. Believes that sustainable and fairness enhancing reforms and investments in the national plan must address structural weaknesses of social services and social protection systems and strengthen their resilience; in this sense, points out that the reforms and investments in social and territorial cohesion should also contribute to fighting poverty and tackling unemployment and should lead to the creation of high-quality and stable jobs, the inclusion and integration of disadvantaged groups, enable the strengthening of the social dialogue, social infrastructure, as well as social protection and social welfare systems;

Amendment 143 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 i (new)

3 i. Understands that social milestones and targets have not been defined in the Recovery and Resilience Facility; calls on the Commission to define them in accordance with those established by the European Parliament resolution on Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions;

Amendment 144 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 j (new)

3 j. Is concerned about the lack of clarity regarding the time frame of the activation of the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact; insists that any future macroeconomic adjustment programmes must be coherent and not hamper reforms and investments on social progress towards the social milestones and targets identified by the Semester and the National Recovery and Resilience Plans; points out that financial support through the Facility will have to be ensured in order for Member States to achieve these social milestones and targets; stresses that fiscal consolidation programs must respect social investment and that they need to be done in a way that keeps ensuring progress towards the reduction of poverty and inequalities;

Amendment 145 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 k (new)

3 k. Regrets the limited size of the EU budget, as this will limit its redistribution and stabilisation functions; calls on the Member States to take full advantage of all possibilities under the MFF, the NGEU and the own resources system to support social objectives and social justice in their national recovery, in order to compensate for the lack of social ambition in both the MFF and the Recovery and Resilience Facility;

Amendment 146 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 l (new)

3 l. Believes that both the Next Generation EU as well as the MFF and the EU Budget must dedicate investments towards the social objectives, and in particular, social progress, as defined in article 3 TEU and 9 TFEU, comparable to those investments in the Green and digital areas, and that the reduction of poverty and inequalities should also be a transversal consideration across all expenditure;

Amendment 147 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 m (new)

3 m. Warns that the recovery and resilience scoreboard provided under the regulation does not include social indicators linked to the social objectives outlined in it, in particular the implementation of the EPRS principles, quality employment, upward social convergence, equality of, and access to, opportunities and social protection, education and skills, and investing in access and opportunity for children and youth related to education, health, nutrition, jobs and housing, also in line with the objectives of the Child Guarantee and Youth Guarantee; calls on the Commission, in the context of the recovery and resilience dialogue, to identify the social indicators that will be used to assess the investments and reforms of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, as well as, the proposed measures to protect progress towards these goals once the general escape clause is deactivated;

Amendment 148 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Milan BRGLEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 n (new)

3 n. Remarks that if full respect of the Stability and Growth Pact is imposed once the general escape clause is deactivated, this will only fuel and force procyclicality, which will result in increases in poverty and inequalities and a deviation from the social objectives agreed in the Recovery and Resilience Facility; calls for the potential social negative consequences of the deactivation of the general escape clause to be evaluated ex-ante; calls on the Commission and the Member States, in the context of the Recovery and Resilience dialogue and the Interinstitutional Agreement for Better Law-making, to work together with the European Parliament in order to propose the necessary changes in the Stability and Growth Pact that will ensure social progress and protect the most vulnerable from bearing the consequences of the future adjustment programs;

Amendment 149 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 o (new)

3 o. Calls on the Member States to include in the recovery and resilience plan, a social progress section, including the social targets and milestones and estimated investments regarding the implementation of the EPSR, as well as the impact on quality job creation, upward social convergence, youth and children investments, gender equality and equal opportunities for all;

Amendment 15 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas the financing of the NGEU, in particular of the RRF, will only be available after the ratification of the Council Decision 2020/2053, of 14 December 2020, on the EU system of own resources, by the Member States;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 p (new)

3 p. Calls on the Commission to include in the common indicators related to the social objectives, to be used for reporting on progress and for monitoring and evaluation of the Facility, those included in the Social Scoreboard of the Semester, as well as the objectives adopted by the European Parliament Resolution on a Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions, as well as to include in the methodology for reporting on social investment, including the Child Guarantee and the Youth Guarantee; stresses that the European Parliament will closely analyse the delegated act that the Commission will present on this matter, in order to establish if the social indicators, scoreboard and social methodology comply with the objectives, and verify that there are no objections to be made;

Amendment 151 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 q (new)

3 q. Warns that the EU and its Member States face the greatest challenges on goals related to the eradication of poverty, climate change, biodiversity, circular economy, as well as in strengthening the upward social convergence of wellbeing standards; reiterates the importance of putting the SDGs at the core of the European Semester and developing synergies also in the Recovery and Resilience investments and reforms; calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage, together with the European Parliament, on a transformational process that serves to generate policy responses to address these challenges through a European eco-social approach, combining economic shared prosperity, social progress and sustainable development;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the ASGS 2021 mentions delivering on the EU objective of competitive sustainability but that this is neither a concept defined as an objective in the EU Treaties nor does it feature in the UN SDGs; calls on the Commission, therefore, to deliver on the objectives defined in Article 3, paragraph 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Article 98-11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), as well as to be more precise in the definition of resilience, understood beyond the ability not only to withstand and cope with challenges but also to undergo transitions in a sustainable, fair, and democratic manner19 ; _________________ 19Commission communication of 9 September 2020 entitled ‘2020 Strategic foresight report – Charting the course towards a more resilient Europe’ (COM(20200493).

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Stresses the importance to ensure that the workers in the Union are protected by adequate minimum wages allowing for a decent living wherever they work; adequate minimum wages do not only have a positive social impact but also bring wider economic benefits as they reduce wage inequality, help sustain domestic demand and strengthen incentives to work as well as reduce the gender pay gap;

Amendment 154 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises the need to integrate social progress as an investment priority to achieve a Social Union, together with green and digital transitions, in order to protect vulnerable people against the negative impact of the current crisis and mitigate the widening of inequalities, including in the health area; recalls that social progress plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR and of social investment; stresses the role of the European Parliament as co- legislator and calls for its input to be taken into account to ensure democratic monitoring in the Recovery and Resilience plans; calls on Member States to put in place timely and robust coordination mechanisms of their plans guaranteeing broad dialogue with regional social partners;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises the need to integrate social progress as an investment priority, together with green and digital transitions, in order to protect vulnerable people against the negative impact of the current crisis; reiterates the importance of projects that generate positive social impact and enhance social inclusion, in particular by encouraging the use of social impact bonds or social outcome contracts; recalls that social progress plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR ~~and of social~~via reforms and investments, with a particular emphasis on social impact investment;

Amendment 156 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

5. Emphasises the need to integrate the six pillars of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, including economic competitiveness and entrepreneurship, territorial cohesion and social progress as an investment priority, together with green and digital transitions, in order to protect vulnerable people against the negative impact of the current crisis; recalls that social progress plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR and of social investment;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises the need to integrate social progress as an investment priority, together with green and digital transitions, in order to protect vulnerable people against the negative impact of the current crisis and mitigate the widening of inequalities, including in the health area; recalls that social progress plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR and of social investment in order to reduce the investment gap in social infrastructures;

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. EHighlights that social progress is one of the EU’s goals as stipulated in Article 3.3 of the Treaty on the European Union; emphasises the need to integrate social progress as an investment priority, together with green and digital transitions, in order to protect vulnerable people against the negative impact of the current crisis; recalls that social progress plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR and of social investment;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises the need to integrate social ~~progress~~inclusion as an investment priority, together with green and digital transitions, in order to protect ~~vulnerable people~~our societies against the additional negative impact of the current crisis; recalls that ~~social progress~~anti-poverty and social inclusion integrated plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR and of social investment;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has reversed the positive trend of the employment rate of the last six years in the EU-27, resulting in a reduction of the number of persons in work of about 6.1 million in the second quarter of 2020 and a predicted decrease of 4.5 % over the year 202014 ; whereas workers who remain in the labour market have faced a considerable reduction in hours worked and, consequently, loss of income; _________________ 14Commission proposal of 18 November 2020 for a joint employment report of the Commission and the Council for 2021 (JER 2021).according to Eurostat, 8.5% of the population aged less than 60 years in the EU lived in 2019, before the pandemic crisis, in households where the adults worked less than 20% of their total work potential during the past year facing worrying situations of in-work poverty; whereas a significative number of jobs offered, namely to younger workers, were precarious jobs; whereas workers who remain in the labour market have faced a considerable reduction in hours worked and, consequently, loss of income;

Amendment 160 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises the need to integrate social progress ~~as an~~into investment priorit~~y, together with green and digital transitions,~~ies in order to protect vulnerable people against the negative impact of the current crisis; recalls that social progress plans must be included in national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the implementation of the EPSR and of social investment;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. SOCIAL DIMENSION Calls on the Commission and the Member States to actively tackle the digital divide in access to public services, many of which have been digitalised during COVID-19, by ensuring EU financial support for social innovation at local level for making public services more easily accessible, including capacity-building and the scaling up of innovative bottom- up initiatives for e-inclusion and data literacy, so as to ensure that all citizens have access to high-quality, accessible and user-friendly services of general interest;

Amendment 162 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the upcoming Child Guarantee guarantees children’s equal access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Points out that Member States will design their own tailored National Recovery and Resilience Plans, based on the investment and reform priorities identified as part of the European Semester, in line with National Climate and Energy Plans, Just Transition Plans and Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes under EU funds; calls on the Commission and the Member States to add Social Progress Plans so that reforms and investments financed through the facility can also be aligned with the EPSR and CSR related to the social scoreboard;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Stresses the need for the Commission and the Member States to collect better and more harmonised data on the number of homeless people in Europe as this constitutes the basis of any effective public policy;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that fiscal flexibility to support investment in social rights is vital, as is the mainstreaming, effectively and at all stages, of all principles enshrined in the EPSR; demands that any proposed fiscal measures be ex-ante assessed and monitored against the provisions of Article 9 of the TFEU to evaluate their social impact, and that they only be considered when they will be beneficial for upward social convergence and increasing wellbeing standards in Member Stateseffort to mainstream principles enshrined in the EPSR;

Amendment 166 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that ~~fiscal flexibility to support~~ investment in social rights is ~~vital~~important, as is the mainstreaming, effectively and at all stages, of all principles enshrined in the EPSR; demands that any proposed fiscal measures be ex-ante assessed and monitored against the provisions of Article 9 of the TFEU to evaluate their social impact, and that they only be considered when they will be beneficial for upward social convergence and increasing wellbeing standards in Member States;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that fiscal flexibility to support investment in social rights is vital, as is the mainstreaming, effectively and at all stages both at Union and Member States level, of all principles enshrined in the EPSR, taking due account of different socio-economic environments and the diversity of national systems, including the role of social partners; demands that any proposed fiscal measures be ex-ante assessed and monitored against the provisions of Article 9 of the TFEU to evaluate their social impact, and that they only be considered when they will be beneficial for upward social convergence and increasing wellbeing standards in Member States;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that fiscal flexibility to support investment in social rights is vital, as is the mainstreaming, effectively and at all stages, of all principles enshrined in the EPSR; demands that any proposed fiscal measures be ex-ante assessed and monitored against the provisions of Article 9 of the TFEU to evaluate their social impact, and that they only be considered when they will be beneficial for upward social convergence and increasing wellbeing standards in Member States; encourages the Commission and the Member States to assess the use of financial rewards instead of sanctions to achieve higher fiscal responsibility;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that fiscal flexibility to support investment in social rights is vital, as is the mainstreaming, effectively and at all stages, of all principles enshrined in the EPSR; demands that any proposed fiscal measures be ex-ante assessed and monitored against the provisions of Article 9 of the TFEU to evaluate their social impact towards poverty proofing mechanisms, and that they only be considered when they will be beneficial for upward social convergence and increasing wellbeing standards in Member States;

Amendment 17 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has reversed the positive trend of the employment rate of the last six years in the EU-27, resulting in a reduction of the number of persons in work of about 6.1 million in the second quarter of 2020 and a predicted decrease of 4.5 % over the year 202014 ; whereas workers who remain employed in the labour market have faced a considerable reduction in hours worked and, consequently, loss of income; whereas many more have become unemployed; whereas subsidies and compensations from the States have been insufficient and not gone to everybody in need, leaving people behind and in more vulnerable positions, at risk of falling into poverty; _________________ 14Commission proposal of 18 November 2020 for a joint employment report of the Commission and the Council for 2021 (JER 2021).

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, including legislative initiatives aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, the rights of platform workers, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining; notes that macroeconomic policies that guarantee high levels of employment, as well as fair taxation, are essential for the sustainability of our national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing European populations;

Amendment 171 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Stresses the need for flexibility to further support Member States’ workers and businesses, as Member States continue to strive for macroeconomic stability in the wake of the COVID-19 induced crisis;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Is concerned about the large amounts of tax revenue foregone due to large-scale tax avoidance; calls on the Council to speed up the negotiations on legislation regarding public country-by- country reporting and a common consolidated corporate tax base, and to revise the criteria for both the Code of Conduct Group for business taxation and the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Reiterates the importance of the Cohesion policy understood as a strategy to promote and support the “overall harmonious development” of its Member States and regions aiming to strengthen economic and social cohesion by reducing disparities within the EU; recalls the aim to strengthen the link between Cohesion Policy and the European Semester;

Amendment 174 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6 c. Stresses the importance of mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on employment, in particular by improving flexible forms of work organization and part-time work, further improvement of digital skills and promotion of the digital transformation of businesses and public administrations;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets that the way data is 7. presented in the joint employment report is not clear and that the data is often inconclusive or difficult to compare, regarding the evolution of wages, productivity, capital gains and profits, subsidies and tax breaks for corporations, or the tax wedge for labour and capital; warns that multifactor productivity is not being measured; calls on the Member States to include the Gender Equality Index as one of the European Semester’s tools and to analyse the structural reforms from a gender perspective; welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, including a male-female wage equality index; urges the swift adoption of these measures in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities; calls on the Member States and the Commission to support entrepreneurship among women and facilitate access to financing for them; calls on the Member States to unblock the negotiations on the Women on Boards Directive in the Council;

Amendment 176 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets that the way data is presented in the joint employment report is not clear and that the data is often inconclusive or difficult to compare, regarding the evolution of wages, productivity, capital gains and profits, subsidies and tax breaks for corporations, or the tax wedge for labour and capital; warns that multifactor productivity is not being measured; ~~calls on the Member States to include the Gender Equality Index as one of the European Semester’s tools and to analyse the structural reforms from a gender perspective;~~

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets that the way data is presented in the joint employment report is not clear and that the data is often inconclusive or difficult to compare, regarding the evolution of wages, productivity, capital ~~gains and profits, subsidies and tax breaks for corporations, or the tax wedge for labour and capital~~; stresses that to understand the new demands, behaviours and responses, better gathering, monitoring and use of existing and new forms of data and evidence is needed; warns that multifactor productivity is not being measured; calls on the Member States to include the Gender Equality Index as one of the European Semester’s tools and to analyse the structural reforms from a gender perspective;

Amendment 178 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets that the way data is presented in the joint employment report is not clear and that the data is often inconclusive or difficult to compare, regarding the evolution of wages, productivity, capital gains and profits, subsidies and tax breaks for corporations, or the tax wedge for labour and capital; warns that multifactor productivity is not being measured; calls on the Member States to ~~include the Gender Equality Index as one of the European Semester’s tools and to~~ analyse ~~the~~ structural reforms from a gender perspective;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Recalls that to understand new demands, behaviours and responses, better gathering, monitoring and use of existing and new forms of data and evidence is needed; is concerned about the lack of references to combatting discrimination and racism and to ensure equality of opportunity and a life in dignity for all groups including of children and their access to education; calls on the Commission to strengthen the implementation of anti-discrimination legislation, policy, and practice, in order to effectively counter discrimination on all grounds, including antigypsyism and preserve social, mental, cultural and physical wellbeing in the recovery measures;

Amendment 18 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has reversed the positive trend of the employment rate of the last six years in the EU-27, resulting in a reduction of the number of persons in work of about 6.1 million in the second quarter of 2020 and a predicted decrease of 4.5 % over the year 202014 ; whereas workers who remain in the labour market have faced a considerable reduction in hours worked and, consequently, loss of income; whereas this development has the biggest impact on the workers that belong to vulnerable groups like workers with disabilities, workers coming from disadvantaged background, single parents or workers with big families; _________________ 14Commission proposal of 18 November 2020 for a joint employment report of the Commission and the Council for 2021 (JER 2021).

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to address needs of children and take measures to ensure equitable access for all children to early years support, to learning new technologies, skills and ethical and safe use of digital tools, and to opportunities for social, mental, cultural and physical wellbeing that are paramount in recovery measures; calls on the Member States to take appropriate measures to tackle child poverty via fully implementing the Child Guarantee;

Amendment 181 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Stéphane BIJOUX, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a green and sustainable quality employment package, ~~including~~with legislative initiatives aimed at improving wages and ~~protect~~ensuring decent working conditions for all, ~~with a particular focus on telework~~including adequate working places for people with disabilities, as well as facilitating telework when necessary, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, the rights of short-term and atypical workers, self-employed and platform workers, ensuring quality ~~job~~working conditions for essential workers~~, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;~~ ; stresses that these objectives will only be achieved with democracy at work and collective bargaining agreements with the involvement of the social partners;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, including legislative initiatives aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, the rights of platform workers, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining; calls for a coordinated approach at EU level in order to avoid unfair and unhealthy labour cost competition and increase upward social convergence for all;

Amendment 183 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, including legislative initiatives aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, the right to disconnect, family-work balance, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, ~~the rights of platform worker~~parental and care- related leave, the rights of platform workers, a common and synchronised weekly day of rest for all EU citizens, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;

Amendment 184 #

Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the Commission proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, including legislative initiatives aimed at ~~improving wages and~~ protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, the rights of platform workers, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, based on inclusive mechanisms counteracting the present trends, namely on precariousness and in- work poverty, including legislative initiatives aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, the rights of platform workers, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;

Amendment 186 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, including ~~legislative initiatives~~initiatives contributing and supporting Member States actions in the field taking into account diverse forms of national practices and the role of social partners and collective bargaining aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, ~~the right to disconnect,~~ mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, ~~the rights of platform workers,~~ ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package~~, including legislative initiativ~~ containing an effective set of measures aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work and work-life balance, occupational health and safety, the rights of platform workers, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;

Amendment 188 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a quality employment package, including legislative initiatives aimed at improving wages and protecting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus on telework, ~~the right to disconnect,~~ mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, the rights of platform workers, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening democracy at work and the role of the social partners and collective bargaining;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Is concerned about the devastating social and employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis; highlights that the new European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for displaced workers could be mobilised in response to the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on employment; calls therefore on the Member States to rapidly submit to the Commission applications for funding to support European workers who have lost their jobs as a result of COVID-19 in their retraining, requalification and reintegration into the labour market;

Amendment 19 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 190 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Stresses that Members States should also focus on innovation and investments for improved connectivity and artificial intelligence methods and systematic deployment of 5G and Gigabit infrastructure along urban and rural households and large-scale transport corridors in line with EU’s 2025 5G and Gigabit connectivity objectives;

Amendment 191 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Samira RAFAELA, Stéphane BIJOUX, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that social dialogue and collective bargaining are key instruments for employers and trade unions to establish fair wages and working conditions, and that strong collective bargaining systems increase Member States’ resilience in times of economic crisis; Considers in that regard that there is still room for greater involvement of the social partners in a number of Member States, particularly where that involvement was reduced, in developing and implementing policies and reforms; Reiterates its call for concrete measures to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining, including the proposals to make financial support to companies conditional on the respect for trade unions and applicable collective agreements and to exclude companies which have engaged in criminal activities or union-busting or have refused to participate in collective bargaining from public tenders;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 193 #

Guido REIL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that social dialogue and collective bargaining are ~~key~~ instruments for employers and trade unions to establish fair wages and working conditions~~, and that strong collective bargaining systems increase Member States’ resilience in times of economic crisis~~;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Firmly believes that a democratic, resilient and socially just recovery should be based on social dialogue, including collective bargaining. Reiterates its view that Member States should take measures to promote high trade union density as well as to reverse the decline in collective bargaining coverage;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Calls for a quality employment package and n~~Notes that macroeconomic policies that guarantee high levels of employment, as well as fair taxation, are essential for the sustainability of our national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing European populations; calls on Member States to develop and strengthen incentives to continue working at an older age including the promotion of phased retirement, and to increase employment opportunities for older workers including by putting in place schemes to make it easier to work and enjoy retirement, whilst concurrently ensuring adequacy and sustainability of pension payments;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a quality employment package based on inclusive mechanisms counteracting the present trends, namely on precariousness and in-work poverty and notes that macroeconomic policies, balanced with social investment, that guarantee high levels of quality employment, as well as fair taxation, are essential for the sustainability of our national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing European populations;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a sustainable quality employment package and notes that macroeconomic policies that guarantee high levels of green employment, good working conditions, and effective workers’ representation, as well as fair taxation, are essential for ~~the~~a sustainab~~ility of our national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing Europe~~le society; stresses that tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way to reduce inequalities and p~~opulation~~romote fairness;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a quality employment package and notes that macroeconomic policies t~~hat guarantee high levels of employment, as well as fair taxation,~~ogether with the support of families and recognition of their contribution to the society in the pension schemes for parents are essential for the sustainability ~~of our~~and fairness of the national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing European populations;

Amendment 2 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas hours worked are set to increase faster than headcount employment and employment may also fall further when short-time work schemes are discontinued; whereas the reallocation of workers is usually a lengthy process and employment is therefore expected to decline slightly in 2021; whereas, despite the expected economic rebound next year, the EU unemployment rate is set to rise further from 7.7% this year to 8.6% next year and it is expected to decline in 2022 to 8.0%, with divergences between Members States will persist;

Amendment 200 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a quality employment package and notes that macroeconomic policies that guarantee high levels of employment, as well as fair taxation especially for families, are essential for the sustainability of our national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing European populations;

Amendment 201 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Miriam LEXMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a quality employment package and notes that macroeconomic policies that guarantee high levels of employment, ~~as well as fair taxation,~~ are essential for the sustainability of our national pension systems in a demographic context of ageing European populations;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. calls on the Member States to take measures to remedy the lack of access to social protection systems, in particular by following the Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self- employed; welcomes, once again, the adoption of this recommendation as a first measure and the Commission’s commitment to strengthening social protection systems in Europe, but stresses the need to make universal access to social protection a reality, especially in the current difficult situation;

Amendment 203 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Recalls that EU-level social protection mechanisms are essential to ensure that the economic and monetary union is coherent with a true social union; calls on the Commission to present an instrument to mitigate the effects of asymmetric shocks that is effective in the long run, such as an adequate and workable unemployment (re)insurance scheme that would be able to back up national schemes when a part of the EU experiences a temporary economic shock; is of the opinion that the SURE initiative fell short of what was needed;

Amendment 204 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Calls on the Commission to effectively implement the Youth Employment Support, in order to ensure that all young people under the age of 25 receive a good quality offer of employment, continued education, vocational education and training, access to skills needed to enable employment opportunities in a wide range of sectors, apprenticeship or traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education;

Amendment 205 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. Calls on the Commission to develop at the earliest opportunity a robust European Child Guarantee to ensure that every child in Europe at risk of poverty or social exclusion has access to free healthcare, education, early childhood education and care, decent housing and adequate nutrition;

Amendment 206 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10 c. Calls on the Commission to give priority to the publication of its Strategy on the rights of people with disabilities and urges Member States to keep in mind and work on compensating the disproportionate negative effects that measures adopted in the context of the pandemic have on vulnerable groups;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to high-quality healthcare and to refocus health systems on preventive care and health promoting, notably by implementing relevant country- specific recommendations; and providing dedicated investments in the field; Eurofound research shows that there are signs that access to healthcare has become more dependent on income and employment, with a particular important role for employer-provided supplementary insurances, therefore access to healthcare becomes less resilient to economic crises1a; calls on Member States to ensure adequate social protection floors for all workers (in particular those in vulnerable positions such as in non-standard forms of work, migrants and those with disabilities) and including the self- employed; _________________ 1aEurofound (2020), Access to care services: Early childhood education and care, healthcare and long-term care, https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publicat ions/report/2020/access-to-care-services- early-childhood-education-and-care- healthcare-and-long-term-care

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure universal access to high-quality healthcare and to refocus health systems on preventive care, notably by implementing relevant country-specific recommendations; calls on Member States to ensure adequate social protection floors for all workers (in particular those in vulnerable positions such as in non- standard forms of work, migrants and those with disabilities) and including the self-employed;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare ~~and~~, to refocus health systems on preventive care, ~~notably by~~to put an end to precariousness and the abuse of temporary work in the health sector, and to depoliticise the management of public health, by, inter alia, implementing relevant country- specific recommendations;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to high-quality healthcare, quality care for the elderly, whose situation has been accentuated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to refocus health systems on preventive care, notably by implementing relevant country- specific recommendations;

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare and long-term care and to refocus health systems on preventive care, especially regarding the issue of social isolation of the elderly notably by implementing relevant country-specific recommendations;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure the existence and access to high- quality free healthcare services and to refocus health systems on preventive care, notably by implementing relevant country- specific recommendations;

Amendment 213 #

Jana TOOM, Radka MAXOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare ~~and to refocus health systems on preventive care, notably by implementing relevant country-specific recommendation~~with the emphasis on preventive care as well as on building resilient healthcare systems prepared for possible future crises;

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare ~~and to refocus health systems on~~, including preventive care, notably by implementing relevant country-specific recommendations;

Amendment 215 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Welcomes the inclusion of housing affordability in the European Semester; calls on the Commission to propose an EU framework for National Homelessness Strategies, and further calls on the Member States to adopt the principle of Housing First, which helps to substantially reduce the rate of homelessness by introducing determined action plans and innovative approaches; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal access for all to decent housing;

Amendment 216 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Samira RAFAELA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls on the Commission to extend the Country Specific Recommendations in the future to include the outcome regarding the involvement and effectiveness of social partners in wage- setting mechanisms;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that implementing the EU skills agenda equitably is critical for promoting health systems and tackling skills shortages for people in new fields of work; ~~warns, however, that a skills agenda is not enough to tackle the increasing precariousness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market~~calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise their efforts to invest in affordable, accessible, inclusive and high-quality vocational education and training, to reinforce upskilling and reskilling measures, including digital and transferable skills, and to promote lifelong learning to prepare workers for the needs of the labour market affected by the green and digital transformations; takes the view that the mutual recognition of qualifications will be beneficial for overcoming skills shortages and skills mismatches; warns, however, that a skills agenda is not enough to tackle the increasing precariousness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market; emphasizes the need to combat the risk of social exclusion and poverty of women and girls by allowing equal access to education and training through the fight against gender stereotypes and the closing of the digital gender gap;

Amendment 218 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that implementing the EU skills agenda equitably is critical for promoting health systems and tackling skills shortages for people in new fields of work; warns, however, that a skills agenda is not enough to tackle the increasing precariousness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise their efforts to invest in affordable, accessible, inclusive and high- quality vocational education and training, to reinforce upskilling and reskilling measures, including digital and transferable skills, and to promote lifelong learning to prepare workers for the needs of the labour market affected by the green and digital transformations; takes the view that the mutual recognition of qualifications will be beneficial for overcoming skills shortages and skills mismatches;

Amendment 219 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that implementing the EU skills agenda equitably is critical for ~~promoting health systems and~~ tackling skills shortages for people in new fields of work, which also applies to wider public health workforces as well as within health promoting health and care systems; warns, however, that a skills agenda is not enough to tackle the increasing precariousness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure high-quality skills training is developed through the obtention of qualifications and recognition and validation of competences, with tailored support and active outreach, especially for the most marginalised groups in society avoiding stereotyping;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. SIs of the opinion that the mutual recognition of learning outcomes, qualifications and diplomas at all education levels as well as of non-formal learning will help to overcome skills shortages and mismatches; stresses that implementing the EU skills agenda equitably is critical for ~~promoting health systems and~~ tackling skills shortages for people in ~~new~~all fields of work~~; warns, however, that a skills agenda is not enough to tackle the increasing pre~~ across all ages, and highlights the importance of upskilling and reskilling for the green and digital transitions; reminds that employers should facilitate access to appropriate training and opportunities for vocartio~~usness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market~~nal training to broaden career opportunities and occupational mobility;

Amendment 221 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 222 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that ~~implementing~~timely and effective implementation of the EU skills agenda ~~equitably~~ is critical for promoting health systems and tackling skills shortages for people in new fields of work; ~~warn~~stresses, however, that athe skills agenda ~~is not enough to tackle the increasing precariousness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market~~should be accompanied by other effective measures in order to tackle the challenges in the EU labour market including in-work poverty; underlines the need to harness the full potential of Artificial intelligence for creating the labour market in which the skills match the skill demand;

Amendment 223 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the Commission to propose an EU framework for national homelessness strategies, by adopting the Housing First principle; stresses, moreover, the need to collect better and more harmonised data on homeless people in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to come up with specific proposals to adequately address the problem of energy poverty in the context of the Green Deal;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Recalls the importance of European programs such as the Youth Guarantee, whose package has recently been strengthened; Calls on Member States a quickly implementation of this Programme, addressing their NEET’s situation, with particular concern about those living in Regions with natural constraints in their labor market;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Warns, however, that to tackle the increasing precariousness and in-work poverty in the EU labour market, legislative instruments are essential, and a European framework directive on minimum income is key to guarantee a safety net and a decent life for all citizens;

Amendment 226 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Welcomes the availability of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to also respond to this pandemic crisis, supporting the restructuring needs of European companies; Notes that the limit for worker’s dismissals for access the fund has been reduced to the minimum of 200 jobs lost, as well that this European tool could help funding personalised support measures, such as tailor-made training courses, re-skilling and up- skilling; Calls on European Institutions involved for flexibility and quick analysis of the activation requests, ensuring that the time to mobilize the fund is reduced to a minimum;

Amendment 227 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12 c. Encourages the temporarily adaptation of the EU School Fruit, Vegetables and Milk Scheme to the closure of schools where necessary to fight the pandemic situation, ensuring healthy eating habits to our children during this period and preventing malnutrition of those at risk of poverty and social exclusion, as well as supporting the local producers;

Amendment 228 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for better coordination between economic and social policies and between the different recovery funds and structural funds, in order to improve synergies and boost social investment resources; insists that the recovery plan must contribute to achieving the UN SDGs, implementing our growth strategy as set out in the Green Deal, and fulfilling the principles of the EPSR; calls on the Member States to make full use of the potential offered by the general escape clause to support companies which are in difficulty and lack liquidity, particularly SMEs, safeguard the jobs, wages and working conditions of European workers and invest in people and social welfare systems;

Amendment 229 #

13. Calls for better coordination between environmental, economic and social policies and between the different recovery funds and structural funds, in order to improve synergies and boost social investment resources; calls for reinforced links between the European Semester and other key EU environmental, social and economic policy initiatives, such as the EPSR, the SDGs, the Youth and Child Guarantees, the Social Economy Action Plan, the Antiracism Action Plan, as well as thematic EU strategies for key groups (Gender, Roma, LGBTI+, Disability, Children, etc);

Amendment 23 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak caused significant changes in the practices of the labour market, sending over a third of EU workers to work from home1a; whereas disconnecting from work should constitute an essential principle allowing workers to refrain from work- related tasks and electronic communication outside working hours without facing any repercussions and contributing thus to an adequate work-life balance; _________________ 1aEurofound, Living, working andCOVID-19, p.9,https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites /default/files/ef_publication/field_ef_docu ment/ef20059en.pdfavem un link?

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for better coordination between economic and social policies and between the different recovery funds and structural funds, in order to improve synergies and boost social investment resources; underlines the need for synergies between the MFF 2021-2027 and the RRF; in this regard, calls on Member States to put forward their respective proposals for partnership agreements under the MFF 2021-2027 without undue delay;

Amendment 231 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for better coordination between economic and social policies and between the different recovery funds and structural funds, in order to improve synergies and boost social investment resources; in particular toward first respondents to the crisis such as essential workers and families, embedding the principle of leaving no one behind;

Amendment 232 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for better coordination between economic, environmental and social policies and between the different recovery funds and structural funds, in order to improve synergies and boost social investment resources; calls for more integration across sectors in whole of government approaches and at all levels;

Amendment 233 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for better coordination between economic and social policies and between the different recovery funds and structural funds, namely ESF+ and ERDF, in order to improve synergies and boost social investment resources;

Amendment 234 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Calls on all the Member States to prepare their Homelessness Strategies featuring both proactive and reactive measures, adopting the Housing First principle and prioritising the provision of permanent housing to homeless people, proposing ways to tackle energy poverty, stopping evictions and stopping the criminalisation of homelessness;

Amendment 235 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Reminds the critical moment that we are facing and strongly recommends that should be avoided political initiatives that create unnecessary costs, administrative burdens and obligations that could undermine the full implementation of these funds and, consequently, the recovery of the principal engine of the European economy, our SMEs;

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include all relevant national, regional and local authorities to contribute to design and implementation of the Semester-related actions, in particular in health and social fields which often fall out of the economic and fiscal considerations;

Amendment 237 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13 b. Believes that for a resilient EU we must focus all policies on ensuring a lasting recovery, avoiding the premature end of measures and financial tools to support our companies and workers and to strengthen them where and when needed; stresses the paramount importance of supporting investment and access to finance in the EU, namely through the InvestEU Programme, in order to help SMEs with solvency difficulties, create employment in strategic sectors and promote territorial, economic and social cohesion in the EU; underlines the need to ensure that the small size of the projects, or their origin in more remote regions, such as the outermost regions, are not an obstacle to access the InvestEU Programme, guaranteeing geographical balance, equality in their allocation and social justice;

Amendment 238 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to analyse brain drains in certain regions and sectors, and to support mobile workers by ensuring fair mobility and strengthening the portability of rights and entitlements; calls on the Member States to commit fully to the digitalisation of public services in order to facilitate fair labour mobility, particularly with regard to the coordination of social security systems; therefore asks the Commission to put forward a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number;

Amendment 239 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to analyse brain drains in certain regions and sectors, and to support mobile workers by ensuring fair mobility and strengthening the portability of rights and entitlements; highlights the potential of Next generation EU for creating new opportunities and new innovative ways of work that would enable people to work from rural and remote areas without the need of moving to bigger cities which could prevent brain drains in some sectors;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas improved productivity is crucial for retaining the EU's competitive position and for improved wellbeing; whereas reforms that can lead to enhanced productivity should be welcomed in light of the mixed results to date, including the pre-pandemic slow pace of economic recovery, continuing concerns over productivity in some Member States relative to competitors and the increase in precarious employment;

Amendment 240 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to analyse brain drains in certain regions and sectors, and to support mobile workers by ensuring fair mobility and strengthening the portability of rights and entitlements; underlines that the digitalisation of public services can help to facilitate fair labour mobility, particularly with regard to the coordination of social security systems;

Amendment 241 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to analyse brain drains in certain regions and sectors, and to support mobile workers by ensuring fair mobility and strengthening the portability of rights and entitlements; asks Member States to assess the use of fiscal incentives to encourage people and companies to settle in areas at risk of depopulation;

Amendment 242 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to analyse brain drains in certain regions and sectors, and to support mobile workers ~~by ensuring fair mobility and strengthening the portability of rights and entitlements~~’ rights to free mobility and portability by ensuring their social security protection;

Amendment 244 #

Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to a~~nalyse~~ssess brain drains in certain regions and sectors, and propose supportive measures where needed as well as to support mobile workers by ensuring fair mobility and strengthening the portability of rights and entitlements;

Amendment 245 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure a growth- friendly investment climate and to support SMEs and their employees in the transition to a more digital and greener economy, and to give adequate consideration to the interests of SMEs in the policy making process by analysing the possible effects of policies on SMEs; highlights the importance of improving access for SMEs to public and private funding, including microcredits and crowdfunding, and reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens;

Amendment 246 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Miriam LEXMANN, Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Points out that fairness conditions ~~must be establish~~should be considered for companies that wish to access public funds and support in order to avoid such support going to companies based in ~~tax havens, to those without significant~~a jurisdiction referred to in Annex I to Council conclusions on the revised EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes1a, should not subvert collective bargaining, workers’ participation ~~in company matters or codetermination, or those without a ban on bonuses to limit CEO and top executive remuneration;~~or codetermination in company decision-making processes in accordance with national law and practice, and should be conditional on maintaining the same level of working and employment conditions and rights, including protection against dismissals and reductions in wages, no bonuses to managers or dividends to shareholders; _________________ 1a OJ C 64, 27.2.1010, p. 8

Amendment 247 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Points out that ~~fairness conditions must~~tax avoidance and tax evasion has caused billions in losses of potential revenues for the public finances of several Member States and highlights that tax rate competition has undermined the ability of countries to set tax policies that meet the needs of their economies and people; calls for fairness conditions to be established for companies that wish to access public funds and support in order to avoid such support going to companies based in tax havens, to those without significant worker participation in company matters or codetermination, or those without a ban on bonuses to limit CEO and top executive remuneration;

Amendment 248 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Points out that fairness conditions must be established for companies that wish to access public funds and support in order to avoid such support going to companies based in tax havens~~, to those without significant worker participation in company matters or codetermination, or those without a ban on bonuses to limit CEO and top executive remuneration~~;

Amendment 249 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Points out that fairness conditions must be established for companies that wish to access public funds and support in order to avoid such support going to companies based in tax havens, to those without significant worker participation in company matters or codetermination, or those that do not respect trade unions and the applicable collective agreements; or those without a ban on bonuses to limit CEO and top executive remuneration;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas before COVID-19, economic trends were generally described as positive in the European Semester annual reviews; whereas evidence shows that persistent and increasing inequalities remain among persons and between and within states and regions; ; while some regions facing more decarbonising challenges are targeted with just transition fund, others, that were too dependent on tourism and related services are not subject to specific transition funds and some of them are coincident with the territories with highest unemployment rates;

Amendment 250 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. stresses that small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in sustainable and inclusive development, economic growth and job creation in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their support for SMEs and their workers in the resumption of economic activity and in the transition towards a more digital and greener economy;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

~~16. Stresses that the assessment of the rule of law and the effectiveness of the justice system should thus continue to be included in the European Semester;~~deleted

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas before COVID-19, economic trends were generally described as positive in the European Semester annual reviews; whereas evidence shows that persistent and increasing inequalities remain among persons and between and within states and regions; widening the gap between lower and higher classes; whereas this leads to multiple discriminations that need to be tackled with an intersectional approach in order to ensure equality of opportunities and a life in dignity for all groups;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas before COVID-19, although with relevant differences between Member States, economic trends were generally described as positive in the European Semester annual reviews; whereas evidence shows that persistent and increasing inequalities remain among ~~perso~~citizens, and between and within states and regions, reinforcing the already high level of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 28 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas global challenges such as digitalisation and the fight against climate change, regardless the COVID-19 crisis, persist and require a just transition so as to leave no one behind;

Amendment 3 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 b (new)

- having regard to the Directive 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing council Directive 2010/18/EU,

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the COVID-19 crisis led to a worsening of wage inequality around the world, only partly offset by state subsidies and minimum wage policies; whereas lower paid workers, disproportionately women and the new precarious youth, are the most affected by the rise in inequalities; and the immediate pandemic burden of job loss has fallen disproportionately on low-paid women according to Eurofound;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the COVID-19 crisis led to a worsening of wage inequality around the world, only partly offset by insufficient state subsidies and minimum wage policies; ~~whereas lower paid workers, disproportionately women and the new precarious youth, are the most affected by the rise in inequalities~~leading to severe situations of precariousness and unprotection;

Amendment 32 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas lower paid workers, disproportionately women and young workers are the most affected by the socioeconomic consequences of the crisis and the consequent rise in inequalities, while their work life balance stability is already challenged by their enrolment in education, care obligations, and unfair internship/traineeships/apprenticeships contracts;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas the ongoing twin transitions, green and digital will have important and unequal impact on employment by sector, region and type of worker; whereas the Covid crisis have accelerated those impacts especially in labour markets trends and should also affect education, skilling and upskilling demands;

Amendment 34 #

Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET, Samira RAFAELA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas housing and childcare costs may force households into poverty, it is important to take these into account when measuring in-work poverty and to integrate housing costs into standard indicators of social reporting, and figures before and after housing costs are calculated;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas social protection systems are under severe pressure to mitigate the social impact of the crisis and ensure decent living conditions for all as well as access to essential services such as health, education and housing;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

E b. whereas an increase in in-work poverty during the economic crisis has had a broad social impact and is not merely a statistical issue; whereas in-work poverty is a genuine problem across Europe that requires specific policy attention;

Amendment 37 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the youth unemployment rate has increased due to COVID-19 crisis, reaching 17.1 % in September 2020 and is expected to continue rising; whereas 11.6 % of young people aged between 15 and 24 are not in employment or in education (NEETs)15 ; whereas increasing inequalities between generations affect the sustainability of our welfare system as well as our democratic health; whereas COVID- 19 could lead to the emergence of a "lockdown generation", as the crisis hit young people’s job prospects; whereas the economic fallout will have long-term negative effects on youth employment; _________________ 15 JER 2021.

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the youth unemployment rate has increased due to COVID-19 crisis, reaching 17.1 % in September 2020; whereas 11.6 % of young people aged between 15 and 24 are not in employment or in education (NEETs)15 ; whereas the COVID-19 crisis impacted the access to education for disadvantaged social groups such as single-parent, low income and large families, who struggle to afford digital education equipment for their children; whereas increasing inequalities between generations affect the sustainability of our welfare system as well as our democratic health; _________________ 15 JER 2021.

Amendment 39 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the youth unemployment rate has increased due to COVID-19 crisis, reaching 17.1 % in September 2020; whereas 11.6 % of young people aged between 15 and 24 are not in employment or in education (NEETs)15 ; whereas increasing inequalities between generations affect the sustainability of our welfare system as well as our democratic health; whereas young people coming from disadvantaged background often face multiple discrimination and are hit harder by the current crisis; _________________ 15 JER 2021.

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 17 December 2020 on a strong social Europe for Just Transitions1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0371

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the youth unemployment rate has increased due to COVID-19 crisis, reaching 17.1 % in September 2020; whereas 11.6 % of young people aged between 15 and 24 are not in employment or in education (NEETs)15 ; whereas ~~increasing inequalities between generations affect the sustainability~~youth are an essential part of our welfare systems a~~s well as our democratic health~~nd find themselves with fewer and/or low quality opportunities that lead to unpaid work, poor working conditions, long probation periods; _________________ 15 JER 2021.

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the youth unemployment rate has increased due to COVID-19 crisis, reaching 17.1 % in September 2020; whereas 11.6 % of young people aged between 15 and 24 are not in employment or in education (NEETs)15 ; whereas increasing inequalities between generations affect the long -term sustainability and resilience of our welfare system as well as our democratic and economic health; _________________ 15 JER 2021.

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women are particularly vulnerable to labour market changes owing to social care duties, occupational segregation and their more precarious employment; whereas an intersectional evaluation shows that women in vulnerable groups, such as young women with children, persons with disabilities or those of a migrant origin, are more likely to be in a worse position;deleted

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women ~~are particularly vulnerable to labour market changes~~ owing to social care duties, occupational segregation and ~~their~~ more precarious employment are disproportionally conditioned and unable to adapt to labour market changes; whereas an intersectional evaluation shows that women in vulnerable groups, such as young women with children, ~~persons~~women with disabilities ~~or those of a migrant origin~~, single parent families, LGBTIQ families or those of a migrant origin or pertaining to national minorities, are more likely to be in a worse position;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women are particularly vulnerable to labour market changes owing to social care duties, occupational segregation and their more precarious employment; whereas an intersectional evaluation shows that women in vulnerable groups, such as young women with children, Roma, persons with disabilities, homeless or those of a migrant origin, are more likely to be in a worse position;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women are particularly vulnerable to labour market changes owing to social care duties and uneven distribution of the unpaid household work, occupational segregation and their more precarious employment; whereas an intersectional evaluation shows that women in vulnerable groups, such as young women with children and particularly single mothers, persons with disabilities or those of a migrant origin, are more likely to be in a worse position;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women are particularly vulnerable to labour market changes owing to social care duties, discrimination on grounds of pregnancy and motherhood, occupational segregation and their more precarious employment; whereas an intersectional evaluation shows that women in vulnerable groups, such as young women with children, persons with disabilities or those of a migrant origin, are more likely to be in a worse position;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women are particularly vulnerable to labour market changes owing to social care duties, including unpaid care work, occupational segregation and their more precarious employment; whereas an intersectional evaluation shows that women in vulnerable groups, such as young women with children, persons with disabilities or those of a migrant origin, are more likely to be in a worse position;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas Europe’s Roma continue to face some of the worst socio-economic indicators, with over 80% experiencing poverty and social exclusion, only 43% in paid employment, and disproportionately high NEET rates; whereas the Roma have been particularly hard hit by the Covid-19 crisis, not least in what concerns access to education and training;

Amendment 49 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 b (new)

- having regard to the European Commission and OECD’s report Health at a Glance: Europe 2020. State of Health in the EU cycle1a, _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/fil es/state/docs/2020_healthatglance_rep_en .pdf

Amendment 50 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the gender employment gap (11.4 %) , gender pay gap (14 %) and gender pension gap (30 %) remain unacceptably high; whereas closing the gender employment gap is a social and economic imperative, due to the implications for women’s lives, including their financial security and quality of life, and its persisting costs amounting to around €320 billion in 2018 (2.4% of EU GDP)1a; whereas improving employment opportunities for women, ensuring equal pay and facilitating a good work-life balance, including for men, are vital to sustainable economic growth and development, productivity, and long-term fiscal sustainability in the EU; _________________ 1aEurofound (2020), Women and labour market equality: Has COVID-19 rolled back recent gains? Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the gender employment gap (11.4 %) , gender pay gap (14 %) and gender pension gap (30 %) remain unacceptably high; whereas improving employment opportunities for women, ensuring equal pay and facilitating a good work-life balance, including for men, ~~are vital to~~by enforcing the right to 10 days of paternity leave, four months of parental leave, five working days of carers’ leave as provided in the Directive on Work Life balance for Parents and Carers, are vital to preserve their mental health and well being, as well as sustainable economic growth and development, productivity, and long-term fiscal sustainability in the EU;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the gender employment gap (11.4 %) , gender pay gap (14 %) and gender pension gap (30 %) remain unacceptably high; whereas improving employment opportunities for women, ensuring equal pay ~~and~~, facilitating a good work-life balance and adequately recognising the contribution of the periods of raising children in the retirement pension schemes, including for men, are vital to sustainable economic growth and development, productivity, and long-term fiscal sustainability in the EU;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the gender employment gap (11.4 %) , gender pay gap (14 %) and gender pension gap (30 %) remain unacceptably high; whereas improving employment opportunities for women, ensuring equal pay, recognition of unpaid care work and facilitating a good work-life balance, including for men, are vital to sustainable economic growth and development, productivity, and long-term fiscal sustainability in the EU;

Amendment 54 #

Jana TOOM, Radka MAXOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

Amendment 55 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas people living in marginalised conditions and suffering from social exclusion and poverty face particular challenges due to the pandemic; whereas the negative effects of the measures put in place by EU governments have disproportionately affected minorities and disadvantaged groups2a; _________________ 2a FRA (2020), Coronavirus pandemic in the EU – impact on Roma and Travellers - Bulletin 5, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas labour market changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have had a disproportional impact on vulnerable groups, including minorities;

Amendment 57 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

H b. whereas people with disabilities faced even more limited access to services due to the pandemic; whereas the digital divide, including digital poverty, low digital literacy and difficulties with universal design, increases barriers to social rights for people with disabilities; whereas evidence gathered by the FRA mounted of significant obstacles in access to education for children with disabilities;3a _________________ 3aFRA (2020), Coronavirus pandemic in the EU - fundamental rights implications: focus on social rights - Bulletin 6, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 58 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas unemployment among temporary workers has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic; whereas one in five workers in the EU holds a poor quality job; whereas it is expected that in the next decade, job polarisation and non-standard forms of employment will increase further and there will be more jobs at the higher and lower ends of the skills spectrum16 ; whereas technological change and the use of artificial intelligence might alter the labour market significantly; whereas this leads to further disparities in earnings; whereas labour demand has consistently been weakest in the middle of the job- wage distribution, most noticeably during the periods of recession and employment contraction between 2008 and 2013; whereas this trend is likely to be further reinforced by the pandemic; whereas low- skilled jobs will always be essential for societies and must offer decent pay and conditions; whereas digitalisation can create chances and opportunities for upskilling, but does not necessarily improve working conditions or create new quality jobs for all; _________________ 16 Eurofound (2018), Upward convergence in the EU: Concepts, measurements and indicators, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 59 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas unemployment among temporary workers has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic; whereas one in five workers in the EU holds a poor quality job facing serious situations of chronic in-work poverty; whereas it is expected that in the next decade, job polarisation and non-standard forms of employment will increase further and there will be more jobs at the higher and lower ends of the skills spectrum16 ; which will result in further inequality and labour market segmentation; _________________ 16 Eurofound (2018), Upward convergence in the EU: Concepts, measurements and indicators, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 c (new)

- having regard to the Commission Staff Working Document Investing in Health, SWD(2013) 43 final1a, _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/fil es/policies/docs/swd_investing_in_health. pdf

Amendment 60 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas unemployment among temporary workers has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic; whereas non- standard ways of working and workers in essential jobs were not guaranteed health and safety at work, including mental health; whereas one in five workers in the EU holds a poor quality job; whereas it is expected that in the next decade, job polarisation and non-standard forms of employment will increase further and there will be more jobs at the higher and lower ends of the skills spectrum16 ; _________________ 16 Eurofound (2018), Upward convergence in the EU: Concepts, measurements and indicators, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas sustainable development is a fundamental objective of the European Union and social sustainability is a fundamental prerequisite for fair and inclusive green, digital and demographic transitions; whereas the social market economy is based on two complementary pillars, namely the enforcement of competition and robust social policy measures, which should lead to the achievement of full employment and social progress; whereas the three pillars of sustainable development are the economic, the social and the environmental; whereas sustainable development is based, among other things, on full employment and social progress; whereas this is a fundamental objective of the European Union laid down in Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU); whereas up till now priority has been given to economic and environmental sustainability;

Amendment 62 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas the labour market faces a rapid shift towards a greener and a more digital environment, creating jobs that require updated competencies; whereas there is a wide need to focus on the skilling, reskilling and upskilling strategy of the employees of all ages; whereas the lifelong learning plan in the EU should create a framework for sustainable competitiveness;

Amendment 63 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

I b. whereas inequalities in health by socio-economic status already before the COVID-19 crisis have been substantial; whereas gains in increasing life expectancy in the EU have slowed down and faltered; whereas the COVID-19 crisis has worsened physical and mental health outcomes, especially of the most vulnerable groups;

Amendment 64 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

I c. whereas COVID-19 impact has been aggravated by the existence of pre- existing inequalities that have been increasing over the past decade; whereas the disinvestment in public services following the global financial crisis contributed to the widening of inequalities in health needs;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment that are expected to significantly transform the way of working in future have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, including domestic violence against women ~~and~~, health problems among workers, particularly psychological ones as well as difficulties to reach the work-life balance in the new reality of changed work patterns and the necessity to combine the work with care duties and often also home schooling;

Amendment 66 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, including domestic violence against women and health problems among workers, particularly psychological onesforced teleworking and home-schooling during lockdown put women and children in more vulnerable and dangerous situations of domestic violence;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, including blurring of boundaries between work and private life, domestic violence ~~against women~~ and health problems among workers~~, particularly~~ not only directly linked to the COVID-19 pandemic but also musculoskeletal disorders or psychological ontroubles;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, ~~including domestic violence against women and~~ health problems among workers, particularly psychological ones;

Amendment 69 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, including increased domestic violence against women and health problems among workers, particularly psychological ones;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 d (new)

- having regard to the Commission Communication on effective, accessible, and resilient health systems, COM(2014)2151a, _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/fil es/systems_performance_assessment/docs/ com2014_215_final_en.pdf

Amendment 70 #

Jana TOOM, Radka MAXOVÁ, Samira RAFAELA

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, including domestic violence against women, elderly and health problems among workers, particularly psychological ones;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas new forms of employment have emerged or intensified, such as teleworking and non-standard ways of working, and whereas new realities have also emerged and existing trends have intensified during lockdowns, including domestic violence ~~against women~~ and health problems among workers, particularly psychological ones;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the pandemic has exacerbated health and social inequalities17 and whereas the poverty rate ~~is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19: whereas Eurofound suggests complementing the S~~, already unacceptable before the crisis (more than 20 million citizens living at risk of poverty in the EU) is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19 affecting new groups of citizens on the top of those already at risk of poverty: whereas Eurofound suggests reinforcing the role of the social Sscoreboard by accompanying the EPSR with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; ~~_________________ 17EuroHealthNet (2020), Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring health equity. The role of the European Semester.~~

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting health and social inequalities17 lowering life expectancy and whereas the poverty rate is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19:; whereas Member States had already received health-related Country Specific Recommendations in the 2020 European Semester cycle; whereas Eurofound suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the EPSR with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice, discrimination and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; _________________ 17EuroHealthNet (2020), Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring health equity. The role of the European Semester.

Amendment 74 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the pandemic has exacerbated health and social inequalities17 in wide ranging groups including children in low-income families and older people and whereas the poverty rate is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19: whereas Eurofound suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the EPSR with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; _________________ 17EuroHealthNet (2020), Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring health equity. The role of the European Semester.

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the pandemic has exacerbated health and social inequalities17 and whereas the poverty and child poverty rate is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19: whereas Eurofound suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the EPSR with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; _________________ 17EuroHealthNet (2020), Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring health equity. The role of the European Semester.

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the pandemic has exacerbated health and social inequalities17 and whereas the poverty rate including child poverty is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19: whereas Eurofound suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the EPSR with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; _________________ 17EuroHealthNet (2020), Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring health equity. The role of the European Semester.

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas in 2018, 9.6 % of the EU- 27 population lived in households that spent 40 % or more of their equalised disposable income on housing, although substantial differences between Member states were recorded;

Amendment 78 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas in-work poverty in the EU has been increasing since the 2008 economic and financial crisis and it is estimated that 10 % of working Europeans are faced with the risk of poverty;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas social dialogue is crucial in the European social model for finding tailor-made solutions for the labour market; whereas social dialogue has been weakened and collective bargaining coverage has fallen across Europe as a result of a decentralisation process that followed the 2008 crisis and labour market reforms induced in some Member States, as pointed out in the European Semester country reports; whereas Eurofound shows that the involvement of social partners in devising labour market policy responses to COVID-19 has been more limited than would be the case in non- crisis situations in many Member States1a; _________________ 1aForthcoming reports; Eurofound (2021) COVID-19: Some implications for employment and working life and Eurofound (2021) Involvement of social partner in policy making during COVID- 19)

Amendment 8 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 e (new)

- having regard to the opinion by the European Commission’s Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH) of November 2020 on the organisation of resilient health and social care following the COVID-19 pandemic1a, _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/fil es/expert_panel/docs/026_health_socialca re_covid19_en.pdf

Amendment 80 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas social dialogue is crucial in the European social model for finding tailor-made solutions for the labour market; whereas civil dialogue continues to be left behind, thus deepening the gap between citizens and institutions; whereas social dialogue has been weakened and collective bargaining coverage has fallen across Europe as a result of austerity politics and decentralisation processes that followed the 2008 crisis and labour market reforms induced in some Member States, as pointed out in the European Semester country reports;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

L a. whereas income inequalities remain at a high level in the EU; whereas tax and labour cost competition is harmful for the single market and for cohesion among the Member States; whereas well-designed progressive tax and benefit systems, social investment and the provision of quality public and social services are essential levers for preventing the transfer of disadvantage from one generation to the next;

Amendment 82 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Jana TOOM, Samira RAFAELA, Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Alin MITUȚA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

L a. whereas the pandemic heavily affected the educational system in the EU, leading to the closure of schools, universities and colleges; whereas the negative physical, mental health and educational impact of proactive school closures on children would likely outweigh the benefits of the decision to close schools, in particular in areas with population at risk of poverty or social exclusion;

Amendment 83 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of pensions, protection and social security, care services, housing, early childhood ~~schools~~education, long- term care, health systems, including preventative care and psychosocial support, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, healthy and active ageing, high levels of employment and wages; ; whereas good working and living conditions along the life course are key in preventing care needs, and adequate housing and high-quality local areas, along their physical, social and service dimensions, are important to prevent care needs and facilitate independent living;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive ~~approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of~~, intersectional and coordinated approach among inclusive, non-discriminatory, social policies that ensure universal, adequate, and poverty-proof, first pillar pensions, social security, c~~are services, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, high levels of employment and wages~~overage at all levels, stable health systems, as well as universal child care and schooling, decent and accessible housing, adequate employment and working conditions that respect work-life balance and the right to disconnect, with adequate minimum wages and a minimum income for those outside the labour market;

Amendment 85 #

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of fair pensions, social security, ~~care servic~~quality and accessible care infrastructure for children, elderly and persons with disabilities, support to families, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, high levels of employment and dignified wages;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of pensions, social security, care services, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, healthy and active aging, gender equality, high levels of employment and wages;

Amendment 87 #

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of pensions, social security, care services, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, fighting poverty and social inexclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, high levels of employment and wages;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of family promotion, pensions, social security, care services, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, high levels of employment and wages;

Amendment 89 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of pensions, social security, family policies, care services, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, high levels of employment and wages;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 f (new)

- having regard to the Council Conclusions of 17 October 2019 on the Economy of Wellbeing1a, _________________ 1a https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/docu ment/ST-13171-2019-INIT/en/pdf

Amendment 90 #

Jana TOOM, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Radka MAXOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the demographic challenge requires a comprehensive approach based on a mix of policy solutions in the fields of pensions, social security, care services, housing, early childhood schools, long- term care, health systems, education, social inclusion, integration of migrants and work-life balance, gender equality, high levels of employment and wages;

Amendment 91 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas Eurofound shows that the long-term care workforce has grown by one-third over the past decade and is a key sector to consider, not only to guarantee quality of life for an ageing population, but also in terms of gender equality in three regards: currently most long-term care is provided by informal carers, most of whom are women, most workers in the sector are female and this has hardly changed, and most care receivers are women, who on average have higher life expectancy than man in all Member States1a; _________________ 1aEurofound (2020), Long-term care workforce: employment and working conditions. Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Amendment 92 #

Gheorghe FALCĂ, Eugen TOMAC, Radan KANEV, Ádám KÓSA, Romana TOMC, Krzysztof HETMAN, Miriam LEXMANN

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

Amendment 93 #

Dragoş PÎSLARU, Samira RAFAELA, Alin MITUȚA

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas we face a critical time in our history, with the idea that economic growth automatically trickles down to all sectors of society being widely discredited; whereas we are witnessing a thinning of the middle class, increasingly precarious job conditions for blue collar and platform workers and growing polarisation in terms of income and wealth; whereas the cultural and creative sectors, the tourism sector, alongside SMEs, local and family businesses have been severely affected economically by the measures meant to restrain the spread of the pandemic;

Amendment 94 #

Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Manuel PIZARRO, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Milan BRGLEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Klára DOBREV

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~we face a critical time in our history, with the idea~~there is clear evidence that the pursued economic paradigm for the last 30 years that economic growth automatically trickles down to all sectors of society ~~being~~is widely discredited; whereas we are witnessing a thinning of the middle class, increasingly precarious job conditions for blue collar and platform workers and growing polarisation in terms of income and wealth;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

Amendment 96 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Stéphane BIJOUX, Radka MAXOVÁ, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

N a. whereas the risk of poverty among people in non-standard forms of employment appears to have increased since the recession and this trend has been even more affected by the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic;

Amendment 98 #