9 Amendments of Isabella ADINOLFI related to 2016/2101(INI)
Amendment 2 #
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1. Acknowledges that youth unemployment is a perpetual challenge for Europe; notes that the employment situation varies significantly across the EU; points therefore to the need for labour market reforms that would adapt education to market demands and tackle inequalities in education; expresses, in this context, itPoints out that the current unacceptable high youth unemployment is a tell-tale indicator revealing deep structural flaws of the present European economic and political model; notes that the employment situation varies significantly across the EU and also across the eurozone, demonstrating the absence of a real economic convergence; points therefore to the need for in-depth social, political and economic reforms that would allow to stop first, and then reverse, the current trend of growing inequality; highlights that labour market reforms, the favourite recipe of neoliberalism, have utterly failed to produce such results; notes that, on the contrary, they have produced a generation without hope, afflicted by double-digit unemployment, by misery jobs lacking any security or career perspective, by extremely debilitated social rights, including pension; further notes that, as a result, for the first time after the Second World War, many experts agree that European citizens fcurther support for the Yourently under-30 will need to accept worse life conditions than their parents' generation, despite having an average better education; warns that unless the Employment Initiativeuropean Union quickly adopts decisive actions against such situation, the disaffection of many of its young citizens towards the European project will grow exponentially;
Amendment 3 #
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1. Acknowledges the greater coherencTakes note of the new mainstreamed European Semester, which allows for more opportunities to engage and communicate with Member States and stakeholders at all levels;
Amendment 14 #
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2. Is concerned by the cumulative lack of investments, which affects long-term growth and job creation; regrets the late adoption of the Operational programmes in the current programming period; stresses the importance of swift and consistent implementation of cohesion policy 2014- 2020 operational programmes and other EU-funded programmes and initiatives; underlines also the necessity of enhancing multi-level governance and improving the overall quality of public administration, both horizontally and vertically and involving civil society already in the early stage of programming;
Amendment 17 #
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3. RecognisDeplores the strong links that cohesion policy has established with the wider economic governance framework by providing support for recovery efforts to stimulate compliance with the European Semester rules; underlines, however, that, as the legitimacy of cohesion policy derives from the Treaties, and that this policy is the expression of European solidarity; is therefore of the opinion that measures linking the effectiveness of ESI Funds with sound economic governance should be applied judiciously, with cautpunish sub- national level actors for failures of processes that are steered at national level, and that there are therefore counterproductive for the development of regions and only as a last resortmunicipalities, also considering that the reprogramming would entail a further administrative burden to Local and Regional authorities; recalls, moreover, that the decision of the application of such measures should always take intobe taken considerationing the specific socio- economic circumstances of the Member State concerned, in order to avoid restricting regional and local investments;
Amendment 21 #
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2. Reiterates that despite the serious damage brought by the current structural crisis to the once existing relationship between a good education and a quality job, investments in education and culture still reinforce employability and could contribute to bring back sustainable gprowthsperity and job creation in the EU; underlines the need for structural reforms of the education and training systems in the Member States and the need to fosterto the EU, on condition that deindustrialisation, delocalisation, financial speculation, tax evasion, demolition of social security systems and growing inequality are tackled with decision at the same time; underlines the need for structural reforms of the education and training systems in the Member States, parallel to even more important in-depth social, political and economic reforms, and the need to foster a radically improved solidarity among Member States, without which the very project of an Union is deprived of its main meaning, better interaction between the EU and the Member States and to facilitate the exchange of best practices among the Member States;
Amendment 35 #
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4. Believes that ensuring the transparency and effectiveness of public expenditure is essential for creating a growth-friendly environment; welcomes the factremarks that several Member States have been able to address the CSRs in their operational programmes (OPs) by means of targeted investments or reforms undertaken in the context of ex-ante conditionalities; appreciates the fact that the ESI Fund investments already contribute to the implementation of structural reforms and improve overall economic performanceconsiders that the rationale of the ESI Funds do not lie in the implementation of structural reforms and that the ESI Funds remain the main tool for public investment in Member States;
Amendment 38 #
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3. Highlights that Erasmus+ contributes to mobility and cultural exchange across the EU; calls for better promotion and use of the European tools for transparency, mobility and recognition of skills and qualifications with a view to facilitating mobility as regards learning and working; stresses that mobility must be freely chosen by workers and job-seekers and never forced upon them by the economic and social hopelessness that has conquered their place of origin; reminds that most mobility among Member States, on the contrary, has been forced by the current structural crisis, and that it hits disproportionately young and middle-aged citizens of Mediterranean and Eastern Europe Member States, in a way often uncorrelated with their professional and academic achievements; warns that unless the European Union is able to stop such phenomena, the disaffection of its citizens towards the European project will continuously grow;
Amendment 42 #
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5. Is of the opinion thatStrongly opposes the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) should provide dedicated and targeted support to Member States on a voluntary basis to assist them with the design and implementation of institutional, structural and administrative reforms, only when such reforms cannot be addressed by other instruments or supported by other types of technical assistanceand regrets that EUR 142 800 000 will be deduced from the technical assistance resources of 2014-2020 ESI Funds programming; emphasises that the budgetary transfer from the technical assistance under cohesion policy to the SRSP at the initiative of the Commission should not be a precedent for any future proposals.
Amendment 50 #
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4. Emphasises that the cultural and creative industries contribute significantly to the fight against youth unemployment, employing, on average, more young people than any other sector; stresses that further promotion of and investment in the cultural and creative industries will be beneficial in creating new jobs and combating youth unemployment., part-time, temporary and full time, and combating youth unemployment, provided that innovative business and entrepreneurial models in the cultural and creative field, based on interconnectivity and access, and on an increased citizen participation in cultural and creative activities, are allowed to develop and flourish;