5 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that there are 2 million social economy enterprises in Europe, which employ 14,5 million people and aim to have a social, societal or environmental impact for the general interest; points out that they contribute to the European employment, social cohesion, regional and rural development, environmental protection, consumer protection, agricultural, third countries development, and social security policies; calls on the Commission to establish an adequately financed European Action Plan, which will promote the social economy enterprises in Europe and boost social innovation; recalls that social enterprises are struggling to find the right funding opportunities due to the lack of understanding of their functioning and their small size; stresses the importance of adequate funding via COSME, ESF and ERDF;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that the unemployment rates, especially long-term unemployment rates for people over 50, are very high; stresses that unemployment and inactivity may lead to social exclusion, increases risk of poverty as well as the risk of developing diseases; emphasises that a special budget is needed to tackle this issue properly, such as the YEI, in order to foster life-long learning and reskilling initiatives as well as further measures by public and private employment services to increase skills and competences and retain older workers in their job;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recalls that EURES is an important tool to increase labour mobility and to tackle unemployment and shortage of skilled workers in Europe simultaneously; notes that, yet, the level of awareness of EURES is still very low; emphasises that a proper and timely funding through EaSI is important in order to finance awareness campaigns in Europe;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls the growing prevalence of chronic and autoimmune diseases in Europe pose serious threats to the European health care systems and labour market; emphasises the importance of funding research as well as the development of European action plans on prevention and early diagnosis of chronic and autoimmune diseases as well as life- time healthy ageing starting from childhood onward;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls that the number of care- dependent people is rising; 80 % of all care activities are done by informal carers, mostly women, who look after their relatives; highlights that many of them reduce or even leave their professional job due to their high amount of responsibilities as carers; stresses that in order to support informal carers, funding for the establishment of a European network of carers and the exchange of best-practice examples across the Member States is necessary;