Activities of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2013/2134(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Semester for economic policy coordination (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Strongly believes that CSRs in the context of the European Semester would become much more relevant and efficient once indicators in the social field - which should be taken on board in the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure and on an autonomous basis - and a scoreboard will be established;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is concerned with the growing view that migration would solve the youth unemployment issue; despite free movement of workers being a cornerstone of the Treaty, as an answer to the current crisis it brings the risk of brain drain, creates new imbalances between active/non active people and would finally contribute to the already ongoing polarization inside the EU and especially in the eurozone;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes with great concern that the initial CSRs as proposed by the Commission for many Member States were very prescriptive regarding pension reforms while such reforms require national political and social cohesion and can only be successful when negotiated with social partners;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. deplores that no CSRs address the challenge of the impact of the labour taxation regime on long term investment and the outcome in terms of job creation;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. looks forward for the frontloading of the Youth Employment Initiative as per the EMPL committee's call through its amendments to the CPR;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the adoption of the Youth Guarantee by the Council and the earmarking of EUR 6 billion for Youth Employment Initiative as part of the next MFF; calls on Member States to urgently implement Youth Guarantee Schemes;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. welcomes the fact that for the first time, some CSRs address the particular situation of Member States regarding poverty; deeply condemns the fact that no CSR addresses in particular the case of labour market from which women are excluded and where no measure is foreseen to include them;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. asks the European Commission to produce a green book on a eurozone minimum unemployment allowance as an automatic stabiliser, following the debate in plenary on the social dimension of the EMU and the hearing organised on 9 July 2013 by the EMPL committee of the European Parliament;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. invites the Commission to fully integrate this opinion in the drafting of the Annual Growth Survey 2014;