15 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2015/2351(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
— having regard to Articles 6, 165 and 166 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas young people should be helped to tackle the challenges they face through a more coordinated and targeted use of resources at national and EU level; whereas, however, as the Joint Report of the Council and the Commission on the implementation of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field makes clear, youth unemployment cannot be tackled without deep-rooted structural reforms, including a revision of the austerity policies which have destroyed jobs in most European countries;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there is a need to reinforce the mainstreaming of youth policy andrequires cross sectorial cooperation within the EU in order to guarantee that policy making takes into account young people’s situations and needs;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the 2015 ‘Youth Report’ based on the Commission communication on the implementation of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018) of 15 September 2015, with the main results of the latest 3- year cycle of the EU Youth Strategy and proposing priorities for the next cycle (COM(2015)0492hich shows that so far the EU has failed to resolve the issue of youth unemployment: in some Member States the youth unemployment rate remains very high (50.1% in Greece), while in others, such as France, it has increased since the Youth Employment Initiative was established (21.5% in 2011 compared with 22.8% in 2014);
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Views the Open Method of Coordination as an appropriate means for framing youth policies; reiterates its call for closer cooperation on youth issues at local, regional, national and EU level, in compliance with the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. StresRecognises the importance of the Structured Dialogue as a means of listening to young people, both youth organisations and non- organised individuals, about their real needs in order to conduct the implementation and development of youth policies more effectively at all levels and to foster active citizenship among young people; stresses, however, that the development of these policies should also take into account tried and tested experience, national education priorities and the intergenerational dialogue, as the older generation have much to pass on, especially in the areas of learning and training;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of the role of family and its cooperation with schools, local communities and churches to guide young people towards full integration in society; points out that too often teachers and professors are having to act as replacement parents in areas where the family unit has proved inadequate, and that this additional role can undermine the status and profession of teacher;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to provide effective training in the national language, in according to the principles of multilingualism and non-discrimination and based on national legislation and European principles, and to maintain educational institutions that teach in the mother tongue of national or language minoritiesance with national law, given that, according to the indicators contained in the report entitled Education at a Glance 2015, on average across all OECD countries, an individual with the right skills in reading and writing will be 4.2 times more likely to find a job than an individual with little skill in this area;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for better coordination between education and training curricula and the needs of the changing labour markets; stresses, however, that while better coordination is necessary, it will not address the problem of job shortages, and that the main need is to implement structural reforms, including a revision of the posted workers directive, the actual effect of which has been to create social dumping, meaning that in some sectors young people are having to face unfair competition from labour which is 30% to 50% cheaper;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to include elements of entrepreneurial learning at all levels of education and training and the need to promote and uphold policies to foster youth entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative field in order to create jobs; stresses that the process of setting up a business differs greatly from one Member State to another, and that in some countries it is still very complicated for young entrepreneurs to start a business, particularly owing to administrative difficulties, problems obtaining credit and the burdens imposed by labour legislation;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises the importance of addressing skills shortages and mismatches by promot; points out that mobility for learners can be a good tool for training and facilitating mobility for learners through a better use of all EU tools and programmes; quiring new skills but that consideration should be given to the problems of 'brain drain' to which mobility programmes may give rise, depriving certain Member States of the human and economic resources which are essential to their prosperity;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the Member States to make full use of the Erasmus+ programme in order to improve the employment prospects of young people, foster cross- borde, which enables young people to gain new experiences and new skills, but stresses that mobility alone cannot solve the problem of unemployment and that priority should be given first to matching skills with the needs of the labour cmareer and labour mobilityket, enhancing learning and improving the acquisition of basic knowledge;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the Member States to take the necessary measures to implement the Youth Guarantee scheme; calls for continued political commitment to thHas some doubts still about the effectiveness of the Youth Guarantee scheme; points out that that this scheme was originally designed to ensure sustainable labour-market integration through high quality offers, but that in some Ycouth Guarantee as a long-term, structural reform, ensuring sustainable labour-market integration through ntries, such as France, 75% of 'future-oriented jobs' are in the non-profit sector or lead to training only in a third of cases; calls for all youth initiatives not to lead in reality to insecure jobs for young people, whigch quality offersonly bring about a fictitious, short-term fall in unemployment;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses that young people’s voluntary activities, for example in the personal services sectors, should be supported and better recognised for their value as an important form of non-formal learning; emphasises, however, that these activities should not become a new tool for increasing the insecurity of youth employment;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to take advantage of the dynamWelcomes the dynamism of young people's political participation through social media, but calls on the Commission to ensure that these platforms are no longer used for recruitment by terrorismt of social media in education, training and youth participationrganisations, given that, according to Europol, 46 000 Twitter accounts are regularly used by militants and sympathisers of the 'Islamic State' terrorist group;