13 Amendments of Jeroen LENAERS related to 2017/2039(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital –A (new)
Recital –A (new)
-A. whereas, having peaked at 24 % in 2013, the youth unemployment rate in the EU-28 has steadily dropped, reaching below 17 % in 2017;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the financial and economic crisis caused the youth unemployment rate to rise from 15 % in 2008 to a peak of 24 % in early 2013, with this average rate masking huge divergences across Member States and regions; whereas youth unemployment rates in 2013 stayed close to 10 % in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands while peaking at close to or well over 40 % in Italy, Spain, Croatia and Greece; whereas in the long term a brain drain of highly educated people from the latter countries could affect their economic development;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas long spells of youth unemployment can make young people feel isolated from society and loshave a sense of belonging, and can cause ‘scarring effects’, meaning that there istigmatising effect, which can lead to a higher probability that they will subsequently become unemployed again, and face lowein the course of their ecarnings and career prospectseers, and may mean that their career prospects could be impaired and their wages reduced during their working lives; whereas the side-lining of young people represents a huge loss of public and private investment, given the unused and faltering human capital that it entails, given the unused human capital;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas having a first real job empowers young people, helping them to become icontributes to both the professional ande pendent, self-confident citizens and make a positive start in lifersonal development of young people, and this helps to get their careers off to a good start;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the YG is designed to achieve the sustainable integration of NEETs into the labour market by offering an individualised approach, leading to a good-quality offer and enhancing young people’s employability, while in a broader context helping to address skills mismatches on the (regional and cross- border) labour market;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas in its first Special report on the YG, the ECA raised concerns about the adequacy of funding (both EU and national) of the initiative, about the definition of a ‘good-quality offer’lack of a strategy with clear milestones and objectives, and about monitoring and reporting on the results;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the significant divergence in economic performance in terms of both economic and employment growth across the EU-28; urges the Member States that continue to lag behind to implement the necessary structural reforms in order to catch up with other EU economies; notes that it is sound economic policies, which are ultimately a Member State responsibility, that create jobsjobs are created by businesses, which must receive support from sound economic policies, and that the policy ultimately adopted is a responsibility shared between various policy-making levels; expresses its concern about the long-term impact on the economic development of Member States that are experiencing a brain drain of highly educated people;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that more can be invested in both domestic mobility and cross- border mobility in order to reduce the youth unemployment rate; calls for demand for and supply of work and skills to be aligned better by facilitating mobility between regions (including cross-border regions);
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that reaching out to NEETs requires strong and sustained efforts by national authorities and cross-sectoral cooperation, as NEETs are a heterogeneous group with diverse needs and skills;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for a discussion about the future stratus ofegy for the YEI which does not question its continuation but addresses the question of transforming it from a crisis instrument into a more permanent, main EU financing instrument for tackling youth unemployment, and which establishes a co- financing requirement in order to underline the primary responsibility of the Member States;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recognises that the YEI is a financial instrument and that greater efforts from the Member States to provide a better link between educational systems and labour markets, in order to avoid skills mismatches are highly necessarycluding cross-border labour markets, in order also to ensure that the skills that are in demand and those on offer are better matched, for example by promoting education in neighbouring languages;