Activities of Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS-CASSIOTOU related to 2007/2290(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
Α. whereas the objectives of the Lisbon strategy as regards the employment of women, young people and older people and the Barcelona objectives as regards childcare services are essential for the viability of pension systems,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Β. whereas, in general termsdespite the need to increase employment rates among women, women's careers tend to be more fragmented and the rate at which their pay increases is slow, while men tend to have a more continuous employment record and their pay tends to increase more steadily, which means that there is a discrepancy between their respective contributions to the pension system and an increased risk of poverty for women,
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses, therefore, the need for active policies on the employment of women, young people and older people so as to make proper use of manpower and business enterprise and to ensure that contributions to pension systems entitle them to a decent pension;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
– recognition of periods spent devoted to reconciling work and family life, such as maternity leave, parental leave, periods spent looking after a dependent relative and educational, further education, retraining and lifelong learning responsibilities, for example by increasing periods of compulsory insurance to complete the period of social insurance coverage requinecessary to ensured for entitlement to a pension;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Member States, in the light of the Lisbon strategy and the need for action to keep the social security and pensions systems sustainable, to make more progress in shifting from a social expenditure to a social activation outlook and to attract and retain more people in quality employment, increase labour supply, modernise social protection systems and increase investment in human capital through better education and traipromoting research and innovation and through better education and training with special emphasis on life- long learning;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls its resolution of 21 February 1997 on the situation of spouses helping self-employed workers which called, among other things, for action to ensure that it was compulsory for spouses helpthose receiving shelf-employed workers to be covered by ap to contribute to their partners' pension insurance scheme.
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that it might be necessary for people to work past the age 65, remaining as long as possible in the labour force; stresses the need to discuss rvoluntarily remaisning the legal retirement agein work for as long as a worker wishes and conditions allow;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that any pro-active economic migration policy that addresses especially potential migrants of working age and offers fast-track immigration to highly skilled applicants would need to be complemented by better integration of migrants into the labour market and society as a whole; stresses that intensified efforts to increase immigration might lead to a brain-drain in the countries of origin, which might have a negative effect on the economical and societal development of these countries and encourage new waves of uncontrolled human mobility;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls upon the Member States to take serious account of the need to redesign traditional pension systems which are based on systematic risk assessments and the assumption of a typical, standard life course, given that the assumed standard life course is changing rapidly and so-called patchwork biographies will become more and more common, leading to the new social risk of increasing unpredictability for many individuals and for vulnerable groups in particular, especially immigrants, low-skilled workers, the inhabitants of remote and inaccessible regions and single parents;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Observes that it is predominantly women who take care of children, voluntarily or involuntarily under the pressure of cultural attitudes and social norms or of the poor quality or lack of childcare facilities stresses the need to compensatrecognise atypical family work and to provide wcompen ansation, and the need to provide women them with real choices both as regards having children and as regards the provision of care to dependent persons, without fearing possible financial disadvantages or suffering detriment to their career progression; welcomes action by Member States to compensation this;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need for the Member States to ensure that inflation remains at a low level, to reduce deficits and the public debt, to preserve adequate levels of funding for social security and pensions systems, the need for them and to find alternative and robust tax bases in face of increased competition brought about by globalisation; warns of the possible reduction of tax revenue caused by flat tax rates, given the fact that they are strictly related to the total number of people in the labour force; stresses the importance of reducing reliance on labour taxation in order to increase the competitiveness of Member States economies and provide more work incentives; recognises the complexity involved in shifting to a more capital taxation, given the smaller capital tax base and greater mobility of capital; suggests that increasing the use of environmental taxes and greater reliance on consumption as tax base be considered, and thus the need for greater progressiveness, which would reduce the pressure on lower incomes;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. IExpresses its conviction that the adoption of measures for improving the state of health of citizens constitutes an investment and contributes to a reduction in the costs of demographic ageing and to more robust public finances; insists on the importance of preserving the values and principles underpinning all health care systems of the European Union, which comprise universal coverage, solidarity in financing, equity of access and the provision of high quality health care, notwithstanding the need for rational consumption of scarce resources;