28 Amendments of Csaba ŐRY related to 2013/2158(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the effects of the crisis and of the excessive fiscal consolidation policies pursued in recent years have resulted in an unprecedented and growing divergence in output and employment between core and periphery countries; whereas the core- periphery gap in unemployment rates reached 10 percentage points in 2012, compared with only 3.5 percentage points in 2000; whereas that divergence is forecast to peak this year;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas it is necessary to pursue with a growth friendly and differentiated fiscal consolidation to guarantee the sustainability of the welfare state and public finances in the long term;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas economic improvements should thus be taken as an encouragement to pursue efforts with determination but, lowering the rhythm to focus on growing and employment, in order to keep up the reform programs to improve competitiveness and secure a lasting recovery;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas systematic errors in the Commission’s economic forecasts for growth and unemployment in recent years demonstrate the need for a change of diagnosis and strategy with a view to ending the crisis; whereas the pace of fiscal consolidation has slowed, yet the deflationary impact of certain structural reforms, mostly focusing on external demand, are having the same severe effects on internal demand, with stagnant investment and growth and weak job creationthe pace of fiscal consolidation has slowed, yet there are clear signs that warns about the risk of deflation that combined with the current stagnant investment and growth and weak job creation can be very harmful for the European economy and needs to be addressed;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
G c. taking into account the life- expectancy coefficient with a view to the sustainability of pension systems
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas certain macroeconomic imbalances, for instance in the area of external competitiveness, have improved, although internal imbalances between Member States have been exacerbated; whereas evidence shows that a one-size- fits-all policy that relies on external demand and squeezes internal demand is not possible for all eurozone members at the same time; whereas this is heightening the (underestimated) negative impact of simultaneous austerity programmes, thereby depressing internal demand and resulting in over-reliance on demand from third economies, at a time when there are signs of a weakening outlook for emerging economieswhereas it is necessary to continue with structural reforms to enhance competitiveness to foster growth and job creation;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas since 2010 there has been a growing divergence in the capacity of national fiscal stabilisers to counteract the economic crisis and its employment and social consequences, with this capacity having practically disappeared in those countries hit hardest by the crisis; whereas household incomes, and thus domestic demand, have consequently been less well protected than before, further aggravating the recession; whereas Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs held a public hearing on 9 July 2013 on ‘The social dimension of the EMU – European unemployment benefit scheme’, which identified the need for automatic stabilisers at the eurozone level;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the fact that in the AGS 2014 the Commission calls on the Member States to protect or promote longer-term investment in education, research and innovation, energy and climate action; considers this insufficient, however, to allow Member States with already- constrained budgets to accomplish that goal; calls on the Commission to explore and promote the necessary reforms to exclude productive investments, for instance in education, and research and development, from the deficit targets established under EU rules so as to ring- fence them, given their potential to generate growth and job;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Call on Member States to make full use of COSME and Horizon 2020 in ordert o help SME’s financing and foster their competitiveness and helping their sustainability not only in the short term, but also in the long term;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that cohesion policy is essential in helping to reduce internal competitive disparities and structural imbalances; calls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to reprogramme unspent structural funding in favour of youth employment programmes and SMEs; calls on the Commission to find special solutions for those countries with very high unemployment rates which will be forced to return EU funds on account of co-financing problems; asks the Commission, to this end, to explore the possibility of excluding Member States’ participation in the co-financing of EU funds or programmes (under heading 1 (‘Sustainable growth’) of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)) from the calculation of their structural deficit as defined in the two-pack;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Notes that income inequality is growing across and within the Member States, particularly in the south of the EU and on its periphery; further notes that in many countries the crisis has intensified the long-term trends of wage polarisation and labour market segmentation, which, together with less redistributive tax and benefit systems, have fuelled rising inequality;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Is concernedNotes that in the AGS 2014 the Commission supports further increases in indirect taxes, which are generally less progressive than direct taxesthat tax systems should be redesigned by broadening tax bases, and shifting the tax burden away from labour on to tax bases linked to consumption, property and pollution; calls on the Commission to take note of the IMF’s October 2013 tax report, which points out that there is scope to tax better and more progressively in order to enhance the legitimacy of the consolidation effort while doing more to promote growth and bring in additional revenue along the way;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Supports the Commission’s call to shift the tax burden away from labour and suggests shifting it towards other forms of sustainable tax such as a harmonised corporate tax, the financial transaction tax (FTT) and carbon taxes;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 a (new)
Paragraph 52 a (new)
52 a. Welcomes the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived which will help the most affected by poverty in their basic needed; ask on Member States to use funds properly and address them to most deprived;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Takes note of the CSR proposal for many Member States regarding pension reforms; considers it regrettable that the Commission’s recommendations were made without reference to Parliament’s recommendations in the Green and White Papers on pensions; stresses that pension reforms require national political and social cohesion and must be negotiated with the social partners to be successful;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)
Paragraph 53 a (new)
53 a. Welcomes the Commission´s note in the 2014 Annual Growth Survey pointing out that in many countries, pension reforms should be completed by linking statutory retirement age to life expectancy more systematically;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 a (new)
Paragraph 54 a (new)
54 a. Believes that in order to guarantee the well-functioning and sustainability of pension system, Member States should adequate the retirement age life expectancy;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 1 - Paragraph 1
Recommendation 1 - Paragraph 1
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 3
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 3
Member States should protect and promote investments in education, research and innovation. Calls on the Commission to explore and promote the necessary reforms to exclude these productive investments from deficit targets established in the EU rules in order to ring fence them, given their potential to generate growth and jobs;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 6
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 6
The Commission should urgently reprogramme the unspent Structural Funds in favour of youth employment programs and SMEs. Calls on the Commission to find special solutions to those countries with very high rates of unemployment, that, due to co-financing problems, will be forced to return the European funds. In this sense asks the Commission to explore the possibility of excluding Member States participation in cofinancing of EU funds or programs, within the heading 1 ‘sustainable growth’ of the Multiannual Financial Framework, from the calculation of the structural deficit as defined in the two-pack;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 4 – Paragraph 4
Recommendation 4 – Paragraph 4
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 – Paragraph 3
Recommendation 7 – Paragraph 3
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 8 – Paragraph 3
Recommendation 8 – Paragraph 3
Member states should shift the tax burden away from labour towards other forms of sustainable taxes such as a harmonised corporate tax, the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) and taxes on carbon;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 8 – Paragraph 5
Recommendation 8 – Paragraph 5
Taxation on labour, especially well targeted temporary reductions in social security contributions or job subsidy schemes for new recruits, especially on young people low paid and low skilled workers, long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, should be reduced ,while ensuring sustainability of public pension systems in the long run;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 10 – Paragraph 3
Recommendation 10 – Paragraph 3
In order to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems: it is possible to raise the actual retirement age without raising the mandatorybelieves that to successfully raise effective retirement age bys and reducing the number of people leaving the labor market early; believes that to successfully raise effective retirement ages, reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies that limit the access to early retirement schemes and other early exit pathways, develop employment opportunities for older workers, guarantee access to life-long learning, introduce tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work, and support active healthy ageing