5 Amendments of Edouard MARTIN related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to provide, on the basis of Article 9 TFEU, a detailed social impact assessment of the EUR 300 billion investment plan;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Considers that the generalisation in all Member States of structural reforms only aiming at the reduction of labour cost leads to a counterproductive race to the bottom and is inefficient for the achievement of the objective of full employment; considers that this situation illustrates the absence of a genuine coordination of fiscal, social and tax policies in Europe;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Observes that, in its 2013 annual report on the EU employment and social situation, the Commission highlighted the importance of social protection expenditure as a safeguard against social risks; notes, however, that social policies and social standards have been widely used as adjustment factors by those EMU members experiencing negative economic shocks; considers it regrettable that the CSRs do not refer to European automatic stabilisers; recalls the importance of such stabilisers in dealing with asymmetrical shocks, in avoiding excessive depletion of national welfare states and thus in strengthening the sustainability of EMU as a whole; reiterates its call on the Commission to produce a Green Paper on automatic stabilisers in the eurozone such as the implementation of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme;
Amendment 246 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Regrets the insufficient democratic legitimacy of the European Semester procedure resulting from the exclusion of the European and national Parliaments in the whole process; considers it therefore a matter of democratic urgency to submit the Annual Growth Survey to the codecision procedure;
Amendment 253 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Criticises the fact that not all the Member States have involved both their national parliament and their national social partners in the drafting of their NRPs., considers that national Parliaments should be given the possibility to amend and adopt NRPs established by their governments in order to improve the democratic legitimacy and national ownership of the European Semester procedure;