7 Amendments of Nicolaus FEST related to 2020/1998(BUD)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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1. Acknowledges that the proposed 2021 draft budget is based on the new Commission 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) proposals of 27 May 2020 and regrets that the Council proposal of 21 July 2020 is below that revised Commission proposal (EUR-25 700 million);
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that the COVID-19 outbreak hasand Member State governments’ disproportionate measures have claimed thousands of lives in Europe and has led to an unprecedented crisis with disastrous consequences for people, families, workers and businesses, and therefore requires an unprecedented response; highlights that 2021 will be a critical year for the budget, as the first year of the 2021-2027 MFF and the first “post- COVID-19 recovery” year; highlights in particular that the budget should help improving the situation in the socialeconomic and employment areasituation, in time of unprecedented crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, the resilience of our societies and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, addressing social and economic inequalities and the needs of those hardest hit by the crisis, particularly potentially vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, whose inclusion in the labour market must be supported and fostered; is of the opinion that the best way to combat poverty is to create jobs; calls therefore on Member States to ensure the full inclusion of vulnerable people, especially those with disabilities, in the labour market; calls on Member States to tackle child poverty and poverty in old age;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomNotes the Commission proposal to allocates in 2021 EUR 1,5 billion to the Just Transition Fund (JTF) and highlights that the JTF must play a key role in supporting the reskilling of workers;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the forthcoming rationalisation ofIs of the opinion that the current ESF, the YEI, the FEAD and the EaSI under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), which will allow to enhance synergies and reduce administrative burden; recalls that ESF + will be the main financial instrument to strengthen Europe’s social dimension, by putting the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights into practice; draws particular attention to the key role of ESF+ in the post-pandemic phase; warns that any decrease of the budget of ESF+ risks to endanger its effective implementation and reaching its objectives; is concernhave had little effect to date and that the problems which they were created to deal with have not been tackled effectively; points out in particular that ESF bureaucracy is preventing aid programmes from being carried out effectively; stresses that the wide-ranging and complex administrative conditions are very labour-intensive and time-consuming for small organisations and that the ESF structure is geared much more to procedures than to analysis; stresses the need,, in this respect, about the draft appropriations proposed by the Commission for ESF+ in the draft budget 2021 (EUR 12 655,1 million in commitment appropriations, EUR 15 374,8 in payment appropriations)therefore, for those funds to be thoroughly rationalised and for administrative burden to be reduced;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 8
8. WelcomesNotes that, in the light of the expected increase in demand in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Commission is proposaling to increase the annual funding available for EGF to EUR 386 million from 2021 onwards and is concerned that the Council proposal to limit this funding to EUR 197 million in 2021 could undermine its paramount role in offering assistance to workers who lost their job in restructuring events;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the important contribution of the agencies in dealing with a wide range of employment, social issues and data collection; stresses that their tasks are developing and hence they must be given the necessary resources to fulfil them;Points out that, in the social and employment fields, the various agencies and bodies work in parallel and that their remits and powers overlap; is therefore calls forpromoting a thorough assessment of the new tasks assigned to the agencies and of their overall performance, with a view to ensuring appropriate and efficient budgetary allocations only; insists, in particular, for a proper staffing and financing of the European Labour Authority;