16 Amendments of Eva KAILI related to 2014/2245(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the financial crisis has undermined the positive effects of cohesion policy and led to higher unemployment rates, increased poverty and social exclusion, and less convergence than expectedincreased divergence in the Union;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the latest figures of 2013 portray long-term unemployment at a historically high level of 5,1% of the labour force in the Union; and whereas long-term unemployment has crucial individual consequences throughout the life-cycle and can become structural, particularly in peripheral regions;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there has recently been a 15 % decline in public investment in the EU in real terms, and whereas many regions, especially those facing demographic challenges, have not contributed toare moving away from the Europe 2020 headline target of 75 % employment by 2020;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps usually have higher unemployment rates, less economic growth and a lack of significant investment leading to a structural divergence in the union;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Cohesion Fund and the Structural Funds are still one of the EU’s main investment instruments, with the potential to alleviate negative trends resulting from the economic crisis and to createits response; and, whereas such Funds can contribute to the creation of quality jobs, if used efficiently;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas socioeconomic imbalances between Member States have deepened further, while the reverse is true with regard to the goal of regional convergence; whereas the core-periphery gap in unemployment has increased from 3,5% in 2000 to 10% in 2013; whereas this divergence increases the risk of fragmentation and threatens EU economic stability and social cohesion; and whereas the Sixth Cohesion Report highlights the role that the Structural Funds play in overcoming inequality especially during the crisis;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to design tailor-made policies to support quality job creation for the long-term unemployed, senior unemployed people, women and other priority groups hit especially hard by the crisis;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that social, economic and territorial cohesion in the Union has to take into account the protection of employment rights which have been dismantled in many countries as a consequence of the economic crisis; believes that structural reforms in the Union should not come at the expense of workers’ and social rights;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Underlines the importance of the gender dimension of job creation; calls on the Commission to allocate sufficient funding in order to tackle unemployment of women as well as the still existing pay gap which disadvantages women in many Member States; is of the opinion that women could benefit from technological advances in order to have more flexible working hours and that the Commission has to invest on that issue;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on the Commission to pay special attention to minority groups across the Union, which suffer from all forms of social exclusion and therefore are more susceptible to suffer from structural unemployment; considers that any policy planning towards social cohesion in the Union has to take into account the integration of minorities;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for a European framework for minimum wage, which must respect national practices and industrial relations systems;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Emphasises the need to direct the creation of new quality jobs with the assistance of new technologies; is of the opinion that the Commission should link the reduction of unemployment with the tools of the Digital Agenda and the Horizon 2020;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Commission to investigate the need for the creation of a "fiscal space" as a vital short-term measure to combat cyclical unemployment, especially for Member States with extraordinarily high levels of unemployment.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure investments in economically weaker regions suffering from high unemployment, and in SMEs in such regions, given their limited access to financing, in order to ensure that these efforts have a meaningful impact where they are most needed, with choices made with due regard to the investments' economic features; shares the Commission's view that there is a need for a skilled work-force in growing sectors such as the digital economy, green sectors and health care;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Considers that cohesion policy measures have an essential role to play in reducing internal competitive disparities and structural imbalances in regions that need it most; calls on the Commission to consider appropriate solutions for those Member States that, though facing very high unemployment are obliged to return EU funds owing to co-financing problems; calls on the Commission to consider pre-financing in order to facilitate the full use of funds by these Member States in the 2014-2020 period, while always ensuring that the principle of budgetary accountability is upheld;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Stresses that growth and jobs policies have differentiated territorial impacts, depending on the specific situation in each EU region, and that regional disparities have been widening since the beginning of the crisis; stresses that the CSRs should take into account territorial differences within Member States to boost growth and jobs while preserving territorial cohesion;