Activities of Jean LAMBERT related to 2012/2151(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
REVISED DRAFT OPINION on towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union
Amendments (9)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 2
Section 1 – paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to adopt growth-economic friendly policies aimed at maintaining and creating jobs; regrets that, contrary to budgetary discipline, employment has not been considered as a EU top priority increasing the risk that, considering the financiarisation of the economy, initiatives designed to stabilise financial markets are pro-cyclical in their impact; is of the opinion that a legal framework making EU2020 commitments binding would lead not only to the increase of employment and social cohesion throughout the EU but it would also improve the quality of public spending and the overall sustainability of public finances.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 4
Section 1 – paragraph 4
4. Calls for a balanced interaction between economic policies on the one hand and employment and social policies on the other hand since the European social model is a driver of economic competitiveness without which the Union's social market economy will not be able to climb out of the rut; stresses that minimum social standards should be introduced and extended in order to stop aggravating social inequalities and to ensure adequate social protection;.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 5
Section 1 – paragraph 5
5. Observes that the roadmap «For a stable and prosperous EU» presented to the June 2012 European Council by President Van Rompuy does not address employment and social policies, though they are a fundament element as Europe moves towards a true monetary and economic union; considers that by not addressing these aspects there is a risk of following economic policies which ignore the consideration of other indicators, and which would therefore not deliver in terms of work and social inclusion;.
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 8
Section 1 – paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that policy guidance for fiscal consolidation is fully coherent with the Union's objectives of social and sustainable development, based on Article 9 TFEU and that it is supplemented by a growth and employment package; calls on the Commission to bear in mind when proposing legislation on social and economic governance that wages and pensions are not merely an economic variable but, above all, the income that people need to live on;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 9
Section 1 – paragraph 9
9. Calls for the monitoring of access to capital market depending on the employment content of investments and for the alleviation of taxation on labour, and transfer to environmentally harmful activities and shifting the burden to a better equilibrium with capital;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 10
Section 1 – paragraph 10
10. Deplores the fact that most Member States have not submitted a National Job Plan as part of their National Reform Programme 2012 and that the Commission has not insisted on Member States with their submission; considers that an integrated and strengthened economic policy framework must build on the principles of sustainable development and employment, while promoting social cohesion;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 12
Section 1 – paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to strengthen fair mobility, combat brain drain and step up the fight against social dumping due to the misuse of posted workers, both in host and home countries;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 15
Section 1 – paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to include, in its assessment of Member States national budgetary plans, the promotion of the EU2020' growth, employment and social targets and to develop a systematic approach to recommendations, addressing all cases where Member States are not on track to achieve the different targets;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 17
Section 1 – paragraph 17
17. Calls for the need to improve social governance at the European level in parallel of the establishment of European economic governance. therefore stresses the need to make social and employment objectives as binding as the budgetary ones and to ensure genuine involvement of the actors of social and employment policy making such as the EPSCO Council, DG EMPL, the EP's EMPL committee and the ILO in the work of their respective counterparts - the ECOFIN Council, DG ECFIN, the EP's ECON committee and the Troika;