20 Amendments of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2016/2148(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the EU Cohesion Policy’s main financial instruments; underlines the importance of equal access to education and training in delivering genuine convergence and reducing disparities and socioeconomic inequalities within Member States and among European regions;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is of the opinion that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) must be used to boost quality jobs, sustainable an inclusive growth and shared prosperity across Europe, with a special focus on supporting the most vulnerable groups in society, taking account of all relevant opinions in identifying priorities for funding, planning and implementing the most effective investment strategies;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the significant contribution made by the European Structural and Investment Funds to the construction of an up-to-date, efficient and safe European transport network; Stresses the importance of synergies between the various funds;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is of the opinion that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) are crucial investment tools, including for rural areas, and that the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) is the main financing vehicle for boosting rural development in many Member States in addition to ad hoc payments from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF);
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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2. Regrets that the overall level of the MFF 2014-2020 is lower compared with the MFF 2007-2013; stresses that in a period of austerity policies and extreme fiscal adjustments, pressure on Member States’ budgets increases; highlights the fact that such pressure has led to a decrease in public financing for education and the development of innovative technologies and has generated high and persistent unemployment, especially among young people;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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5. Expects the Commission to present to Parliament at the earliest opportunity a detailed assessment of the complementarity, additionality and synergies achieved so far between the ESI Funds and the EFSI, and calls for steps to be taken to ensure full coherence and synergies between the ESI Funds and other EU instruments;
Amendment 28 #
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3. Stresses the need to use European Structural and Investment Funds to complement the gaps that exist between completed infrastructure projectste infrastructure projects and complement the gaps that exist, particularly in cross-border regions;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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5. Underlines the priority nature of the challenges that the ESF is charged with tackling, this being reflected in the sum of EUR 86.4 billion dedicated to ESF measures under the relevant thematic objectives, giving priority to measures seeking to promote economic restructuring and greater competitiveness, the upgrading of human resources, measures to promote employment and social cohesion, environmental protection and the efficient use of resources;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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4. Notes that the budget initially allocated for the current programming period under Pillar II was EUR 99.6 billion, which represents a decrease in real terms compared with the previous period of more than the EUR 95.6 billion announced one year ago because of transfers from the 1st pillar, but because of provisions for additional national financing, variable co-financing rates and the possibility of fund-switching between CAP pillars, the final amount shows a slight overall increase at present;
Amendment 35 #
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6. Stresses that migration has become a structural phenomenon in Europe and calls for further use to be made of ESI Funds, especially in order to promote the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into societyreduce youth unemployment figures in the EU;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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6a. Deplores the fact that, despite growing unemployment in Europe, the institutions are more concerned with the integration of migrants and asylum- seekers and have failed to adopt the necessary legislative provisions beforehand for action to ensure employment for European citizens;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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4. Notes the need to provide professional, technical and/or technological support to Member States during planning and implementation of the most capital-intensive infrastructure projects.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
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5. Is concerned by the long adoption process of the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), which is due to the lengthy bureaucratic practices and time- consuming systematic consultation between the partners and the Commission for preparation of draft national RDPs; expects the Commission and the Member States to have drawn lessons from this process with a view to preventing similar delays in the future;
Amendment 39 #
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3. Notes that the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) has failed to date to address the persisting problem of high levels of youth unemployment, which in several Member States remains at over 40 %, particularly in the south of Europe; calls for an evaluation of the YEI following a fully fledged assessment of its performance; asks the Commission to take all necessary actions to ensure its continuation and its revision in order to promote the creation of new high-quality jobs and decent social protection for young people;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that the current migration crisis poses many challenges for the educational and training systems of the host Member States; calls on the EU institutions to provide, via ESIF and other Union programmes, adequate funding to host countries in order to substantially support the legal and potential integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers into education and training systems;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
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8. Stresses that the successful achievement of PA and OP objectives is greatly facilitated by the active involvement of the social partners and other relevant actors as a means of helping national authorities and for the purposes of cooperation at cross-border, transnational and interregional level;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
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7. Stresses that funding under the cohesion policy, job creation, sustainable development and the implementation of innovative technologies is exceptionally important for the development of transport infrastructure in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; calls for the necessary resources to be secured and for the level of financing to be maintained in the next multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
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11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that resources dedicated to technical assistance at the initiative of the Commission are focused exclusively on support for overcoming the various obstacles to ESF/YEI implementation, and on the successful fulfilment of remaining ex ante conditionality.convergence of National Strategic Reference Frameworks and Operational Programmes with the Community Strategic Guidelines;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
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8. Notes that major administrative and bureaucratic barriers to accessing European Structural and Investment Funds exist, particularly for SMEs;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
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8. Urges the Member States to avoid gold-plating or adding unnecessary guidelines and procedures which could interfere with efficient implementation of the EAFRD; stresses in particular the need for vigilance and good organisation on the part of the regions and willingness on the part of the municipalities (first- level local government) also, as potential beneficiaries, to assume responsibility for the preparation of files and project implementation; asks the Commission to continue the simplification of the CAP and, where feasible and necessary, to adapt the basic legislation to this effect; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that sufficient resources are dedicated to successful fulfilment of remaining ex-ante conditionalities;