Activities of Nikolaos CHOUNTIS related to 2015/2351(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the assessment of the EU Youth Strategy 2013-2015 PDF (481 KB) DOC (206 KB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas EU economic policies and the austerity measures they impose on the Member States are undermining the quality of education and conditions of employment for young people; pushing up unemployment, driving young people into a precarious existence and forcing them to accept jobs with no entitlements;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas youth strategy should encouraged the provision of free, public, comprehensive and social education services at every level, while enhancing democratic awareness and solidarity and ensuring full employment rights, together with decent working conditions;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it ishowever important it is to ensure that young people receive the best possible training, it is just as important to ensure that they are able to ensure decent jobs, as today’s European youth is facing very high unemployment rates and unstable jobs with no entitlements, and in particular young people with poor qualifications are more likely to be unemployed; whereas in certain Member States many highly qualified young people are unable to find employment and are being forced to go abroad;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses its concern at the brain drain and the dangers thereof for certain Member States, in particular those facing difficulties and included in adjustment programmes, where an increasing number of graduates are being forced by massive unemployment to go abroad, depriving the countries concerned of their most valuable and productive human resources;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of the role of family and its cooperation with schools, and local communities and churches to guideto help young people towardsachieve full integration in society;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to make the best use of available EU and national policies and financial frameworks, in order to promote investmentcrease expenditure on training for in young people and job creationencourage the creation of new quality jobs;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for better coordination between education and training curricula and the needs of the changing labour markets; stresses however the importance of upholding the value of knowledge, seeking to provide a fully rounded education and a solid academic grounding and ensuring that education policies are not undermined by one-sided adherence to market dictates, reducing learning to a mere educational commodity;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to include elements of entrepreneurial learning at all levels of education and training and the need to promote and uphold policies to foster youth entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative field in order to create quality jobs;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses that young people’s voluntary activities should be supported and better recognised for their value as an important form of non-formal learning; receive particular attention, ensuring that they promote values such as cooperation, solidarity, equality and justice and are firmly dissociated from any attempts to replace the welfare state and state structures or encourage solutions that take improper advantage of unpaid activities;