12 Amendments of Andrew LEWER related to 2015/2351(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas young people should be helped to tackle the challenges they face through a more coordinated and targeted use of resources at local, regional, national and EU level;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas education and training, youth and employment policy are primarily areas of Member State competence, thus the Open Method of Coordination is applied in the youth field at EU level, inspired by European Member States cooperation in the field of employment;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas more than 5.3 million Europeans aged under 25 years of age cannot find a job;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas it is important to underline that young people are politically engaged in many ways, but their participation in elections is decreasing;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it is important to ensure that young people receive the best possible training as today’s European youth is facing high unemployment rin light of continued high unemployment rates in many EU Member States, and in particular young people with poor qualifications who are more likely to be unemployed;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Views the Open Method of Coordination as an appropriate means for framing youth policies; reiterates its call for closer cooperation and exchange of best practice on youth issues at local, regional, national and EU level;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recommends to Member States and the EU to implement an impact assessment of policies that are targeted to the young people;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of the validation of skills that have beendeveloping the transparency and comparability of skills acquired through informal, non- formal and lifelong learning as their validationis is crucial into their endorsement and to making visible the diverse and rich learning of individuals and contributes to the development of values, aptitudes and skills for young people as well as for learning about citizenship and democratic involvement;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the importance of guaranteeing the mutual cross-border recognition and compatibility of qualifications and academic degrees for strengthening the system of quality assurance at European levelfurther developing mutual understanding of qualifications and academic degrees in order to assist with quality assurance across EU Member States and in all countries that have joined the European Higher Education Area;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines the importance of strategic investment, including from the European Structural and Investment Funds, for regional development, competitiveness and the creation of high-quality traineeships, apprenticeships and sustainable jobs; notes that special attention should be paid to young people who are neither in employment nor in education and training, so-called NEETs;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the Member States to make full use of the Erasmus+ programme in order to improve the employment prospects of young people, foster cross-border career andlearning from different prospective in order to go back to their country and bring an added value within the national labour mobilityarket;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21