7 Amendments of Alex AGIUS SALIBA related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the crucial role of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Youth Guarantee (YG), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); highlights, in this regard, that the activities implemented in these areas should always result in strategic measures with clearly defined social objectives and targets aimed at promoting inclusive growth, fighting poverty and social exclusion, reducing inequalities and boosting upward social convergence and that efficient and effective spending is equally as important as the total budget ceilings;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the crucial role of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Youth Guarantee (YG), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); stresses the need for these programmes to receive an adequate level of funding in 2020 and until the entry into force of the next MFF programming phase, ensuring that no gap in the financing of such important instruments is ever to take place; highlights, in this regard, that the activities implemented in these areas should always result in strategic measures with clearly defined objectives and targets and that efficient and effective spending is equally as important as the total budget ceilings;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reiterates that programming funds in the social and employment area should create synergies to help reduce social divergences and inequalities to make sure that no one is left behind in the process; stresses in this regard that the realities of the small labour markets, such as small Member States or remote regions, including the outermost regions as referred in Article 349 of the TFEU, must be taken into account when it comes to the financial contributions under these funds;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Highlights that despite the positive trends towards a decline in youth unemployment rates in the European Union, young people are still at a higher risk of poverty and social and economic exclusion; reiterates the importance of programming funds that promote measures tackling inequalities and youth unemployment and calls for continued, increased and timely funding for young people through the Youth Guarantee, the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) and the European Social Fund (ESF);
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Believes that in this regard the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) must also reflect the realities of the small labour markets and small Member States' markets, in particular with regard to applications involving SMEs, and when the redundancies and job displacements have a serious impact on the employment rates and on the local or regional economy the provisions of that fund should come into effect;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Strongly encourages all investments in the adoption of new technologies in all sectors of the economy and industrial production with a particular attention given to specific programmes aimed at accelerating timely transition of the workforce and restricting the potentially harmful side effects of such transition, such as structural unemployment, growing income inequality or regional and territorial disparities;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that, in the context of ongoing budgetary constraints, it will be critical to make the best use of the 2020 general budget, including future skillswhich should be overcome with an ambitious investment strategy to re-launch the European economy in the aftermath of the economic crisis, it will be critical to make the best use of the 2020 general budget, especially when it comes to policies capable of supporting sustainable economic growth and quality employment creation, such as future skills policies, vocational and educational training (VET), upskilling and reskilling policies and measures to support labour market transitions and better adjustment to demographic change, particularly by improved integration of potentially vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the labour market;