6 Amendments of Lampros FOUNTOULIS related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that growth is the key to more jobs and increased prosperity, while always giving priority to safeguarding workers' rights and focusing on the creation of quality jobs, and that it is necessary to direct the structural funds more effectively towards promoting growth;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that youth unemployment rates remain very high in the Union, despite the actions taken to date, which have not proved to be particularly effective, and that the situation of unemployed young people, especially NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), is particularly worrying; emphasises that, in order to address this issue, it is of the utmost importance to ensure the proper and timely funding of the Youth Guarantee schemes through the European Youth Initiative and the European Social Fund;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of sufficient funding and good budgetary management and control of the programmes within the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework that aim to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, such as the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the different axes of the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); insists, therefore, that for 2018 these programmes’ resources should at least be maintained at the levels of the previous EU budget;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the EU budget should also support vocational training and professional qualification measures, but points out that training alone will not solve the unemployment problem; highlights, in this respect, that proper funding for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is paramount;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a major source of employment in the Union and that one of the main problems in setting up such enterprises and keeping them going is that of obtaining finance; underlines that the 2018 budget should support measures promoting entrepreneurship in those enterprises, provided that this funding is closely linked to the creation of new jobs, including social entrepreneurship and innovative social enterprises and self- employment; stresses, in this respect, that the budget 2018 should in particular facilitate access to micro- credits available through the microfinance and social entrepreneurship axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that financial support be provided for programmes creating jobs for those with multiple disadvantages on the labour market, such as the long-term unemployed, and people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds;