4 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2016/2148(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the EU Cohesion Policy’s main financial instruments; underlines the importance of equal access to education and training in delivering genuine convergence and reducing disparities and socioeconomic inequalities among European regionMember States;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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2. RegretNotes that the overall level of the MFF 2014-2020 is lower compared with the MFF 2007-2013; stresses that in a period of austerity policies and extreme fiscal adjustments, pressure on Member States’ budgets increases; highlights the fact that such pressure has led to a decrease in public financing for education and has generated high and persistent unemployment, especially among young people; points out that, at the same time, further efforts are being asked of the Member States to finance costly European policies of unproven effectiveness, such as the PNR system, which is estimated to cost EUR 500 million;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes that the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) has failed to date to address the persisting problem of high levels of youth unemployment, which in several Member States remains at over 40 %; points out that, in some cases, this initiative has only superficially addressed the problem of young people, such as in France where 'future-oriented jobs' have led to training only in a third of cases, with preference having been given to contracts in the non-profit sector; calls for all youth initiatives not to lead in reality to insecure jobs for young people, which only bring about a fictitious, short- term fall in unemployment; calls for an evaluation of the YEI following a fully fledged assessment of its performance; asks the Commission to take all necessary actions to ensure its continuation and its revision in order to promote the creation of new high-quality jobs and decent social protection for young people;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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4. StresseRecalls that the cEurrent migration crisis poses many challenges for the educational and training systems of the host Member States; calls on the EU institutions to provide, via ESIF and other Union programmes, adequate funding to host countries in order to substantially support the integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers into education and training systemopean Structural Funds are primarily intended to reduce regional disparities between Member States and promote sustainable growth; points out that the costs generated by the admission policies for migrants will cut funding for investments in the real economy, which are of vital importance to Member States' citizens who are bearing the brunt of the current economic crisis; calls on the Commission, therefore, to block any reprogramming of structural funds intended for the admission of illegal migrants;