8 Amendments of Jana TOOM related to 2017/2259(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, according to Eurostat, youth unemployment in the EU28 is steadily decreasing and stood at 18.76.1% in 2016, even exceeding 40% in some countries; December 20171a although this rate remains double the overall unemployment rate and there are considerable differences between Member States; whereas this rate is still unacceptably high and must be reduced in order to realise young people’s full potential; __________________ 1a http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/29 95521/8631691/3-31012018-BP- EN.pdf/bdc1dbf2-6511-4dc5-ac90- dbadee96f5fb
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU Youth Strategy set out a framework for cooperation in the field of youth policy for the 2010-2018 period with the objectives of creating more and equal opportunities for all young people in education and in the labour market and promoting young people´s inclusion and active participation in society;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes the findings of the interim evaluation of the EU Youth Strategy carried out by the Commission2a which outlines that the strategy has been successful in triggering concrete changes at the national and organisational levels and in the adoption of common approaches and principles across the Member States; __________________ 2a https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/ rep/10102/2017/EN/SWD-2017-281-F1- EN-MAIN-PART-1.PDF
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes the evaluation found the strategy gave a strong impulse to national youth agendas, strengthening or reorienting youth policy priorities in a number of Member States, encouraged cross-sectoral cooperation, mutual learning and structured dialogue with young people and provided EU added- value to Member States via policy inspiration, knowledge and expertise, opportunities and resources;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Believes that the open method of coordination could be continued beyond the current period for cooperation in youth policy in order to set a joint agenda, exchange best practices and improve knowledge based policy making; however, believes that the current strategy’s fields of action and initiatives should be simplified and streamlined and its mechanisms for monitoring and reporting outcomes improved in order to be more targeted and ambitious;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Reiterates the importance of the strategy’s cross-sectoral approach as a means of mainstreaming a youth dimension and creating synergies in other relevant policy fields such as employment, education and training and believes integration of the Youth Strategy with other related initiatives at EU level could be improved;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Highlights the value of structured dialogue with young people and their organisations as a means of establishing structures and processes for their participation and stresses the importance of reaching more and diverse young people, especially those at risk of exclusion;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Argues that individuals’young people’s transition into the labour market is facilitated by a comprehensive education and training systems that ensures they acquire cross-cutting skills that promote critical thinking, universality and multicultural dialogue, fostering employabilityand competences including basic and non- cognitive skills as well as key competences that are future oriented; notes through early specialisation, but rather by enabling the attainment of a wide variety of qualificationse role that work-based learning, apprenticeships and digital and entrepreneurial skills can play in this regard;