7 Amendments of Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS related to 2017/2208(INI)
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that cohesion policy plays a key role in ensuring investment in all EU regions, especially in lagging regions; in order to perform this role, it must maintain its resources, while providing for the allocation of a necessary proportion of these resources to lagging regions through simplified and direct procedures;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to better define regional categories (e.g. low- income, low-growth, transitional regions) based not only on general economic conditions but also on the results of the social indicators especially of those regions with high rates of chronic unemployment and on reference periods in line with ESI fund programming cycles;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the presence of a properly educated and trained workforce has a powerful impact on competitiveness, productivity and the attractiveness of the labour market, which flourish in growth and investment-friendly environments; strategies to reinforce European, national and private investments that focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and exploit local advantages in an innovative way should therefore be sought, providing employment incentives especially for young, highly skilled workers;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Hopes that, in implementing the 2020 education and training strategy and its objectives, account will be taken of existing situations in lagging regions, in particular the departure rates and their adverse impact on employment; a special basis should be given to regions bearing the brunt of refugee and migratory flows so that refugees and migrants who remain in these areas can receive appropriate training and education with a view to integrating them into the labour market;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that applying the principle of ‘resilience’ to economic problems facing such regions would allow broader scope and greater flexibility in finding ad hoc solutions with EU support to specific crises such as those affecting lagging regions;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers it necessary to support productive business activities specific to lagging regions, including sustainable tourism and agriculture, through the increasingly effective combination of funding from regional and national bodies and from EU instruments. It is important to simplify legislative and bureaucratic procedures in order to stimulate the creation of small and medium-sized enterprises with an outward-looking approach, especially for young people living in lagging regions;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to adopt national regional development strategies to improve administratCommission to treat peripheral regions and regions with geographical handicaps, with the exceptionally poor accessibility being the most important of such handicaps, as lagging regions by definition and to decide on measures and incentives to demonstrate 'inclusive' governance and other key growth factors in lagging regionsrowth in practice; to this end, it should provide for the appropriate legislative framework to govern the implementation of the future Cohesion Policy;