Activities of Ernest MARAGALL related to 2015/2321(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on refugees: social inclusion and integration into the labour market
Amendments (11)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that expanding access to lifelong learning can open up new possibilities for the active inclusion of refugees, their enhanced social participation and integration into the labour market;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Deeply regrets the present disappearance of cultural networks due to the new orientation of Creative Europe, such as Banlieues d’Europe, as with them disappears a tremendous and essential experience on dealing with issues like segregation, exclusion in multicultural regions and areas;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Asks the Member States to work on the implementation of the country-specific recommendations set in the framework of the European Semester;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create significant budgetary room and readiness in the annual budgets and multiannual financial framework (MFF) provisions, enabling more swift and substantial support to the Member States as regards their actions for reception and integration of refugees into their existing school systems;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that in the current humanitarian crisis, access to educational services and assistance for refugee children and youth is a precondition for their social inclusion, protection, long-term integration into the labour market and prevention of exploitation; underlines the need to ensure cultural and linguistic mediation as well as the learning of the host country’s language for refugees and asylum seekers, and to develop initiativduty to European, national, regional and local institutions and these should provide refugees and asylum seekers with education and training, developing their knowledge of the host country´s languages, cultural and social values, their employability and ultimately their integration ; calls for efforts to promote recognition of competences and qualifications across Europe, by strengthening the role of the European Qualification Framework and promoting the validation of non-formal and informal learning; advocates support at EU, national, regional and local level for non- profit institutions acting as intermediaries for the recognition of competenceskills and qualifications, including through platform of refugees;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Advocates that, in order to boost employability, comprehensive lifelong learning strategies are needed; calls on Member States, therefore, to enhance quality and broaden access to Early Childhood Education and Care, Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to help those migrant teachers and professors find teaching jobs to both improve their situation and put their language and teaching skills and experience to good use in European schools systems;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the crucial role of education, culture, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, lifelong learning, youth and sports policy in fostering the integration and social inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe and in contributing to building a more cohesive and inclusive society based on cultural diversity and the promotion of common values;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Member States to promote initiatives to fosensure greater cooperation among public authorities, NGO, policy coherence, and dialogue among public authorities, NGOs, social partners, civil society organizations and refugee communities in order to enhance mutual knowledge and understanding;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Emphasises the need for Member States’ Education Ministries and the EU to cooperate in order to ensure equal access to high- quality education by reaching out newly arrived migrants and refugees, integrating them in a positive learning environment;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on Member States to facilitate enrolment of refugee students at all educational level; notes that refugee children tend to be concentrated together in schools near refugee centres or in immigrant neighbourhoods and are, as a result, partially segregated and less likely to learn the host language; asks the Member States to make bigger efforts to distribute pupils throughout their school systems more effectively;