Activities of Marian HARKIN related to 2013/2008(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the European Commission’s 7th and 8th progress reports on the EU Cohesion Policy and the Strategic Report 2013 on programme implementation 2007-2013
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the seventh and eighth progress reports and calls on the Commission to examine, in the sixth Cohesion Report in 2014, the long-term impact of the steadily decreasing cohesion between Europe's countries and regions as a result of the economic crisis and the measures which must be taken to reduce the gap, in particular cohesion between programme and non-programme counties;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the high proportion of early school-leavers in some regions is significantly above the target of 10 % and that a solution must therefore be found to the problem of integrating poorly-trained young people into the labour market, taking into account the fact that the lack of qualifications leads to unemployment, which in turn results in poverty, calls on Member States to encourage appropriate vocational and on the job training for those who will benefit from it;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that employment in some regions remains below 60 % and that some regions are missing their national targets by a factor of 20-25 %, which is having a particularly adverse effect on young people, women, older people, carers and people with disabilities; keeping such people in employment requires special measures, particularly as unemployment has been a feature of some isolated settlements for generations, and this poses a particular threat to marginalised communities;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises with regard to the ‘urban paradox’ that the number of families on the brink of poverty, suffering material deprivation, having very low work intensity and threatened by exclusion – primarily single-parent families, carers of disabled family members or older people close to retirement for whom access to equal opportunities must be particularly taken into account, including physical accessibility and access to information and communication media, the achievement of which must be assessed using objective, comparable indicators, taking into account the demographic challenges – is in many cases higher in the regions around capital cities which, according to the indicators, are classified as developed.