7 Amendments of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2015/2006(INI)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas 13 % of young people aged 15–24 and 30 % of those aged 25–29 were neither in employment nor in education or training in the EU in 2013, with large divergences between countries (e.g. Luxembourg with 5% in both cases, and Italy with 22%); and taking into account the EU average rate of early leavers from education and training of 11.9% in 2013, almost 2 points above the EU2020 Strategy goal;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education, especially SMEs but also with Trade Unions, and offering education and training programmes focused on entrepreneurship and raising individual skills, to low income young people, school dropouts, young people with low-skills in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifyingCommission and the Member States to improve the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, to promote them and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses and to safeguard workers’ rights in this context;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, and promote theming social economy in order to improve the social impact of entrepreneurship and to monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses; and promoting business and SMEs in general in the best practice of the corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to put in place a regulatory environment and fiscal incentives that encourage the development of youth entrepreneurial initiatives and boost job creation, as well as to improve welfare and insurance systems so as to guarantee minimum protection for young entrepreneurs;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to promote the offer of micro-scholarships and micro- loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects with European facilities like Progress Microfinance and EaSI; and to facilitate access and return of loans, reducing prices and charges regarding the private placement and preventing these credits end up being a future slab for young people in their professional development and especially in the transition to working adult life;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the Commission to examine factors which discourage women from taking up an entrepreneurial career path and to ensure that educational systems as well as related measures and activities actively strive for gender equality.