Activities of Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS related to 2015/2354(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The Single Market strategy (A8-0171/2016 - Lara Comi) EL
Amendments (8)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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1. WelcomesExpresses its concern on the Single Market Strategy (SMS), which will help to inject new life into Europe’s economies by likely aggravate social dumping and the negative effects on worker's labour and social conditions of enhanced competition in goods and services in the current Single Market; calls for the developmening up borders and removing barriers for goods and services; t of a Social Progress Protocol that ensures a revision of the EU's regulation on the Single Market so that it does not jeopardize fundamental social rights; notes, in this respect, the reference to the European Social Charter in TFEU's article 151;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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2. BelievStresses that barriers to doing business across borders are barriers to growth and job creationMember States have a right to regulate services, professions and commerce in line with their social policy objectives;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes that the deepening of the single market and the digital single market will bring new opportunities and challenges, such asdigital single market poses new challenges in terms of skills, and new forms of employment an, which will have to be addressed financial structures, which will have to be addressed regular dialogue with the social partners; stresses that under no circumstances "digitalization" should be used as a tool to lower current social standards by circumventing existing labour and social regulations;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes the opportunities that the SMS offers to SMEs; believes that developing the right business environment by improving private venture capital frameworks for SMEs and fully applying the ‘Think Small First’ principle across the single market is crucial for growth and job creationExpresses its concern on the ways the SMS may affect SMEs; believes that increased dependence on capital markets will transfer risk and volatility from the financial sector to the SMEs, thus jeopardizing its potential development; objects to the ‘Think Small First’ principle as it is leading to the exemption of SMEs from social and employment law;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
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7. Regrets that the services market remains fragmented; cCalls on the Commission to deliver the necessary reforms that will remove barriers in the service sector by adopting a targeted sector-specific approach for serviceensure high social standards in the service sector in full respect of national rules on service provision and labour standards; stresses the need to protect Member States right to include social and environmental criteria in their public procurement tenders;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
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8a. Urges the Commission to enforce proper information and consultation rights for workers in its revision of bankruptcy legislation, in order to avoid the irregular use of bankruptcy procedures; stresses that the protection of workers should be the cornerstone of any revision of insolvency legislation;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
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9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support quality job creation in the "collaborative" economy by developing appropriate safeguards, while at the same time providing a platform that will allow entrepreneurs to grow, innovate and create jobs. that ensure that employment and social security legislation fully applies to workers in this sector and are extended to self-employed workers; stresses the need to fight practices such as "bogus" self- employment and undeclared work in this sector;