5 Amendments of Arne GERICKE related to 2015/2344(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Points out that the success of the eurozone is dependent on efforts by the Member States to implement sustainable economic policies and reduce their debt, on increasing the welfare of all its citizens, and on well- functioning labour markets and welfare systems, based on decent work with rights, a strong, independent role for the social partners, social dialogue, collective bargaining and collective agreements, and preventing individual Member States from trying to gain an unfair competitive advantage by infringing workers’ rights or promoting social dumping;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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2. Points out that in orderthe European Semester is a new but strong instrument to stabilise the social situation in Member States, economic stabilisers and that further measures, such as a European Unemployment Insurance (EUI) scheme should strengthen the welfare state and fight social deprivation caused by one- sided fiscal discipline measures taken under the Europe, are neither politically justified nor effective in structural terms. On the contrary: they serve to hide structural problems, provide negative incentives and economic governance frameworkntrench social inequality more deeply;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
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3. Regrets the fact that the currentNotes that the still new system of European economic governance is highly unbalanced and focuses almost exclusively on fiscal stability and wage competitiveness, while concerns about economic recovery, public investment policies and more and better jobs and social cohesion are largely ignoredmust continue to prove its worth and that monitoring of its effectiveness is important as the basis for positive further development;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
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4. Asks the EU and the Member States to respect and promote the autonomy of collective bargaining on wages and working conditions, and to restoremaintain balance with the economic governance pillar by urgently moving ahead on the socialensuring that in this area as well the social market economy has a European dimension;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
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5. Stresses the importance of not linking any unemployment benefit system with economic conditionality for the Member States, and of promotingat unemployment benefit systems are a Member State matter, and highlights the need for social policies which fight poverty, social exclusion and social dumping;