10 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2014/2222(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission Communication of 13 January 2015 entitled 'Making the Best Use of the Flexibility Within the Existing Rules of the Stability and Growth Pact'
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in spite of mild improvements, the unemployment rate remains historically high, with 25 million people out of work; whereas long-term unemployment is worryingly high, and 12 million people have been unemployed for more than a year (up 4 % over the previous year); whereas youth unemployment rates have not decreased significantly (they have only been reduced by 1.9% compared to 2013) reaching the EU average at 21,2%; whereas 75% of the long-term unemployed in the EU are under 35 years old; whereas the labour market situation is particularly critical for young people, regardless of their level of education;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the insufficient involvement of national parliaments, the European Parliament and social partners in EU decision making has impedthe European Semester, as well as in the EU decision making as a whole, has reduced the ownership of reforms by the Member States, and has reducedthe citizens’ confidence in the EU project, as shown in past European elections;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that one of the three main pillars of the Commission’s strategy for 2015 is investment, and calls for its plan to be implemented without delay; considers it a step forward that Member States’ contributions to such a plan are excluded from deficit targets; , as established in the Commission Communication on Flexibility, are excluded from deficit targets; takes note of the Commission decision to allow Member States under the preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact to deviate temporarily from their Medium Term Objective (MTO) or adjustment pact towards it in order to accommodate investments in the fields of Structural and Cohesion policy, Trans- European Networks and the Connecting Europe Facility, as well as national co- financing of projects also co-financed by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI);
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Regrets the fact that a 'social Pillar' is not part of the integrated approach of the AGS 2015, which underestimates the need and the importance of developing social investment measures, in particular in the field of social innovation, social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Considers that in order for this investment strategy to exercise a real impact in the EU economy, the EFSI should not simply be an extraordinary financial instrument but instead should become a structural investment mechanism which would permit the EU to fill its investment gap accumulated throughout the years; also considers it necessary for the EU to develop a system of genuine EU own resources, which could be lifted from part of the EFSI revenues, that should be used to finance EU-wide welfare instruments, such as labour mobility and unemployment benefit schemes;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to design tailor-made policies to support quality job creation for the long-term unemployed, senior unemployed people, women and other priority groups hit especially hard by the crisis, such as immigrants or people with disabilities, including measures in favour of promoting anti-discrimination policies on the workplace, work-life balance, lifelong learning and training;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Considers that the achievement of reindustrialization targets paramount for the competitiveness of the EU and that the relaunch of a genuine European industrial policy could foster growth and create new high quality jobs;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Recalls on the Commission that employment and social policies to promote the European Social Acquis should govern all European policies, under Article 9 TFEU; requests the Commission to fulfil its obligation to link the European Semester with the objectives of the EU2020 Strategy;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission to restore the EMU reform agenda as launched in 2012 and make concrete proposals based on the recommendations outlined in the EU Presidents report "Towards a Genuine EMU" and the Commission´s "blueprint for a deep and Genuine EMU". Stresses that most important among them is the need for the Eurozone to acquire its own fiscal capacity to operate as a main instrument of macroeconomic stabilisation in the face of crises hitting Member States in an asymmetric manner;