8 Amendments of Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE related to 2023/0000(BUD)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the budget should support policies and measures to facilitate access to and transition within the labour market transition, create quality employment, further develop resilient social systems, reduce poverty and increase upward social convergence across the Union so that no one is left behind; notes in particular that investment in lifelong learning, reskilling and upskilling is essential to address the green and digital transition; welcomes in this context the 2023 Porto Social Forum conclusions highlighting – in the framework of the European Year of Skills – how robust policies on skills, education and training can create better employment, swifter integration in the labour market and foster social inclusion and be a source of self-fulfilment, and consequently boost the resilience and competitiveness of the EU´s economy and society; calls for financial support to the creation of local strategies for skills and skills development hubs in cooperation with employment agencies of cities; insists on the importance of investing in social inclusion and measures for children and young people; recalls that the integration into the labour market of the most vulnerable groups, such as people in poverty, people with disabilities, young and elderly people, the unemployed, and people displaced as a result of the war in Ukraine, is paramount;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the importance of investing in skills in times of deep transformations in the labour market and the green and digital transitions; calls for financial and technical support to the creation of local strategies for skills and skills development hubs in cooperation with local employment agencies; highlights the key role that the skills academies foreseen in the Net Zero Industry Act Regulation have to play in disseminating knowledge and skills on net-zero technologies that can enhance the Union’s competitiveness and its global position in net-zero industries and consequently calls to provide a budget of at least EUR 102 million year until 2027 with an allocation of EUR 25.5 million for the year 2024;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission proposal to allocate EUR 16,814 3 billion in commitments in 2024 to ESF+; recalls that ESF+ is the main instrument for investing in people and building social protection and that it must play a key role in supporting Member States to achieve social cohesion, high employment levels, adequate social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the transition to a green and digital economy;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its calls to urgently increase the funding of the European Child Guarantee with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion and insists on making this funding part of the revised MFF; recalls also its position that all Member States should use at least 5 % of the ESF+ resources under share- management to targeted actions to combat child poverty and support the implementation of the Child Guarantee;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls the target in the Porto Declaration of 7 May 2021 to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion by at least 15 million by 2030, including at least 5 million children; takes note that, in 2024, EUR 4.8 billion of the ESF+ budget under shared management would need to be spentare allocated on food aid and basic material assistance for the most deprived persons, exceedingthus going beyond the actual objective of 4% and high; welcomes this budgetary evolution in lighting of the worrying increase in the number of deprived persons;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls the essential role of pilot projects (PPs) and preparatory actions (PAs) for testing new policy initiatives and collecting data in the fields of employment and social inclusion; trustshighlights the importance for the Commission to evaluate PP/PA proposals impartially on the basis of a legal and financial assessment, in line with in the Interinstitutional agreement,; calls on the Commission to intensify the dialogue with the European Parliament on how innovative ideas could become eligible for new pilot projects and to provide detailed explanations of its assessments, with concrete examples of the Union actions that are considered to ‘cover’ the proposals; also recalls that the implementation of an adopted PP/PA must remain faithful to the proposal;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Takes note of the Commission's proposal for a revised MFF; believes that this proposal falls short of the EU ambitions to tackle current and future social challenges; welcomes the commitment to invest in European sovereignty, however regrets that the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) proposal lacks ambition; reiterates its call for a fully- fledged European Sovereignty Fund to ensure the EU's strategic autonomy, including investment in human capital and skilled labour, promote inclusive access to quality jobs and address shortages of labour and skills critical to key economic and industrial sectors; stresses the importance of mobilising fresh money to prevent the ESF+ funding from being diverted of its specific objectives;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to develop a proper strategy for the mainstreaming of social objectives in Union spending; considers that a social mainstreaming methodology in the Union budget would be necessary in order to ensure that all Union-funded policies are compliant with the social standardsupportive of the 20 principles defined in the European Pillar of Social Rights, and that all Union spending contributes to European social objectives or at least does not work contrary to those objectives; further calls on the Commission to present a method for monitoring social expenditure in the European budget in order to ensure the effectiveness of European social action and the achievement of these objectives.