6 Amendments of Joachim SCHUSTER related to 2015/2330(INI)
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; calls for measures preventing a race to the bottom in terms of taxation and social standards, building on better use of social indicators in macroeconomic surveillance; points to the importance of poverty and inequality indicators in this context; takes note of recent studies by the OECD[1] and the IMF[2] underlining that social inequalities in Europe hamper economic recovery; stresses that more effort is needed to improve the political visibility and impact of the Scoreboard of Key Employment and Social Indicators; calls for the Commission to make sure that Member States with low social performance adequately address the problems of social inequality; welcomes the own initiative opinion of the Social Protection Committee in this context;[3] [1] OECD, 'In it Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits All', 2015. [2] IMF Report 'Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality', June 2015. [3] SPC, 'SPC own-initiatve opinion on monitoring social developments', SPC/2015/10.2 /FIN.
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. reiterates the need for responsible fiscal policies, taking into account debt sustainability, the economic cycle and the investment gap; is concerned about the form of fiscal adjustment policy recommended by the Commission which focuses on cutting the expenditure; underlines that a responsible fiscal consolidation should in the future concentrate on revenue policies by fighting tax fraud and tax avoidance; takes note of a study by the International Monetary Fund[1] which emphasizes that over-hastily fiscal adjustment is likely to hurt growth prospects as it reduces domestic demand; [1] IMF Working Paper ' Walking Hand in Hand: Fiscal Policy and Growth in Advanced Economies', May 2012.
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Consideringis concerned about the Commission's reference to thate flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobsmodel as a guiding principle for structural reforms as it has not been applied adequately in a range of Member States, calls on the Commission to ensure that labour rights and social security standards are ensured when applying the flexicurity model; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed- term contracts, in both private and public sectors;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to graduallyNotes the importance of reducing taxation on labour, especially by low-paid and low-skilled workers, the long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, while ensuring the long-range sustainability of public pensions systems; calls therefore for a shift of taxes from labour to other sources, while making sure not to endanger social benefits to other sources, while noting that such shifts should not affect taxes with regressive effects such as consumption taxes, but should focus instead on taxes on wealth, capital gains, financial transactions or pollution, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to graduallyNotes the importance of reducing taxation on labour, especially by low-paid and low-skilled workers, the long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, while ensuring the long-range sustainability of public pensions systems; calls therefore for a shift of taxes from labour to other sources, while making sure not to endanger social benefits to other sources, while noting that such shifts should not affect taxes with regressive effects such as consumption taxes, but should focus instead on taxes on wealth, capital gains, financial transactions or pollution, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. underlines that according to Art. 153 (5) TFEU interference in wage setting mechanism by the European Union is not foreseen; emphasizes that wage setting is a core responsibility of mandated social partners in the Member States; demands therefore that the Commission ceases to interfere in national wage setting mechanisms and rejects the establishment of National Competitiveness Boards; underlines that wages are an important factor to increase domestic demand and economic growth; calls therefore on relevant actors in high-surplus countries to support faster wage increases enabling higher domestic demand.