Activities of Juozas IMBRASAS related to 2011/2071(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European semester for economic policy coordination (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that resource efficiency and energy efficiency are fundamental to promoting sustainable growth and combating climate change, and arewhile improving energy security and consumer access to energy; considers, therefore, that in the medium and long term, efficient energy and resource use has to be a key components of Europe’s economic competitiveness;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that recent Commission estimates suggest that the EU is on course to achieve only half of the 20 % objective and that current plans by Member States risk falling far short of the overall 20 % energy efficiency target set in the Europe 2020 strategy, which would lead to lost opportunities for growth across many sectors and regions and loss of employment-creation possibilities; calls on the Commission to lay down guidelines on the method of setting national targets; calls on the Member States to take greater responsibility for meeting the energy efficiency target and to supply more detailed information to the Commission;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Suggests involving the European Institute for Gender Equality more closely in the European Semester; hopes that as soon as it becomes operational the Institute will be able to address the problem of a lack of systematic and comparative data broken down by gender;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. While stressing the need for much more ambitious goals, notes the common target to reduce early school leaving to lApproves the Europe 2020 strategy target of reducing to under 10% the proportion of 18-24-year-olds who leave the education system, and urges the Member States to bring forward, as soon as possible, practical reform measures and plans for achieving that target; stresses than 10% by 2020 ande need for much more ambitious goals in the future; urges the Commission to consider the vast differences among the Member States and therefore ensure that any criteria that measure achievements are comparable and that it takes into account the long-term perspective;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages universities to conduct more basic research, which forms the foundation for a knowledge- and innovation-based economy, where the number of young people with a university degree or diploma must be increased to 40% by 2020.; is concerned by the finding in the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey that the Member States’ targets and measures for realising the overall EU target of increasing the proportion of young people with a university degree or diploma to 40% by 2020 are insufficient; urges the Member States to review their commitments in this field, given the need to have enough workers with degrees or other qualifications to promote innovation and sustainable growth;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on Member States which have not set national targets, or which have not sufficiently committed themselves to taking the necessary action to help meet the overall EU objective of achieving an employment rate in Europe for men and women of 75% by 2020, to undertake to pursue this objective and remove obstacles on the labour market, focusing, in particular, on tackling the key European structural weakness, namely the low participation of certain population groups in the labour market;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission clearly to identifyassess, in the Annual Growth Survey, the main economic problems of the EU and individual Member States, to propose priority measures to overcome those problems, and to identify the initiatives taken by the Union and the Member States to support long-term investment, the removal of obstacles to growth, achievement of the Europe 2020 targets and the reduction of macroeconomic imbalances;