9 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
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1. Recalls that growth is the key to more jobs and increased prosperity and that it is necessary to direct the structural funds, despite European Union efforts to boost them, rates of growth and job creation remain very low; points out that, in order to achieve increased prosperity, the use of the structural funds needs to be objectively evaluated so as to pinpoint those sectors and initiatives where they are making a real and positive contribution to European citizens' well-being; believes that a lucid evaluation of the situation on the ground will enable the funds to be used more effectively towards promoting growth;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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2. Emphasises that the 2018 budget mustcould play a key role in enhanchelping the Union’s contribution to growth and jobs, especially in combating youth unemploymentMember States to boost their growth and employment rates, and especially in combating youth unemployment, provided that it is properly used and invested, and is not squandered in ineffective programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls that youth unemployment rates remain very high in the Union and that the situation of unemployed young people, especially NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), is particularly worrying; emphasises that, in order to address this issue, it is of the utmost importance to ensure the proper and timely funding of the Youth Guarantee schemes through thvaluate objectively how the budgets and programmes for combating youth unemployment are being used and to make Esuropean Youth Initiative and the European Social Funde that the most effective schemes receive adequate, targeted and timely funding;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls that youth unemployment rates remain very high in the Union and that - despite 24 years of European policies to combat unemployment - the situation of unemployed young people, especially NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), is particularly worrying; emphasises that, in order to address this issue, it is of the utmost importance to ensure the proper and timely funding of the Youth Guarantee schemes through the European Youth Initiative and the European Social Fund;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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4. Underlines the importance of sufficient funding and good budgetary management of the programmes within the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework that aimmost efficient programmes to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, such as the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI),; points out, however, that funds such as the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the different axes of the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); insists, therefore, that for 2018 these programmes’ resources should at least be maintained at the levels of the previous EU budgetare passive funds used solely for dealing with the consequences of the crisis rather than its causes; insists, therefore, that resources be directed, as a priority, to programmes and initiatives that aim to address the causes of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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5. Takes the view that it is not the role of the EU budget should alsto support vocational training and professional qualification measures; highlights, in this respect, that proper funding for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is paramount, which should fall primarily within the remit of the Member States and address their specific needs;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a major source of employment in the Union and that one of the main probstaclems in setting up such enterprises and keeping them going is that of obtaining finance; underlines that the 2018 budget should support measures promoting entrepreneurship , in this regard, that, as well as significantly reducing those enterprises, including social entrepreneurship and innovative social enterprises and self-employment; stresses, in this respect, that thee financial and administrative burden on SMEs, the 2018 budget 2018 should in particular facilitate access to micro-credits available, inter alia, through the microfinance and social entrepreneurship axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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7. Urges that financial support be provided for programmes creating jobs for those with multiple disadvantages on the labour market, such as the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgroundsyoung Europeans and the long-term unemployed;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
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8. Reiterates that pilot projects and preparatory actions are monies earmarked for employment and anti-poverty valuable tools to initiate new activities and policies; stresses that several ideas of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs have been implemented successfully in the past as pilot projects/preparatory actions; is of the opinion, therefore, that that committee will make further use of those instruments in 2018; encourages the full use of the margins available under each heading; calls for Parliamprogrammes and/or initiatives should not, under any circumstances, be reallocated to other projects in the course of a financial year; points out, therefore, that the role of the European Social Fund (ESF) is to help European citizents to be given regular, detailed updates on the various stages in the implementation of pilot projectsecure employment and that it should not be tapped into or diverted for other purposes aund preparatory actions by the Commissioner other programmes.