Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2013/2134(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Semester for economic policy coordination (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2013 priorities
Amendments (21)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Calls on the Commission to adopt without delay the committed communication on the social dimension of the EMU and in that perspective to update the scoreboard of macroeconomic imbalances with a set of employment and social indicators together with the adoption of a standalone scoreboard related to the EMU social dimension;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that some Member States have submitted reports on progress on the EU2020 targets, in some cases outlining the specific projects attributed to these goals; calls on all Member States to include these reports as part of their 2014 European Semester contributions; Regrets that the Commission has not presented a EU 2020 progress report; Calls on the Commission to present such a report annually;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Expresses its concerns about a general lack of ambition and progress on the EU2020 targets; calls for the EU2020 targets to be put at the heart of the European Semester with Member States setting ambitious national targets detailing strategies to reach them and with progress visibly monitored through the National Reform Programmes, the Country Specific Recommendations and in the Annual Growth Survey; calls on the Commission to systematically address recommendations to Member States on each of the EU2020 targets where there is a lack of progress;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges the Commission to monitor EU2020 national objectives in Member States under financial assistance and to address with that purpose adapted country specific recommendation taking proper account of the constraints created by macroeconomic adjustment programmes;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and Council to continue to improve indicators to monitor the social, environmental and innovation dimension of the EU 2020 Strategy in the framework of the European Semester; calls for the development of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to improve the accuracy in assessments of the overall social and environmental realities currently not fully captured by comparable EU-level statistics;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that this year's Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) are particularly important, because Member States define their investment priorities for cohesion policy in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF); calls in this context for increased targeting of EU funding on growth and employment policies, especially on combating youth unemploymentall priorities of the EU 2020 strategy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesTakes note of the fact that several Member States have adopted major labour market reforms aimed at improving the resilience of the labour market, introducing more internal and external flexibility, reducing segmentation and facilitating transition between job, introducing more internal and external flexibility; calls on the Commission to ensure that in their policy guidance labour market reforms are aimed at, amongst others, reducing segmentation, promoting transition between jobs, advancing the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labour market, reducing in-work poverty, promoting gender equality, strengthening the rights of workers with a-typical contracts and provide more social protection for self- employed workers;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that all Member States have received recommendations with regard to levels of labour market participation; calls on those Member States with highlow levels of unemploymentlabour market participation to step up, in consultation with the social partners, active labour market measures, such as training and employment services, and to introduce further reforms to facilitate access to quality employment, prevent early withdrawals from the labour market,facilitate the reconciliation of work and private life, prevent early withdrawals from the labour market, shift taxes from labour to environmental taxation thereby reduceing the cost of labour and combat labour market segmentation; underlines the need to ensure sustainability of quality of work and to actively combat growing in-work poverty;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the Commission's Country Specific Recommendations in the field of environmental taxation; highlights the positive budgetary, employment, social, and environmental impacts of shifting taxation from labour to environmental taxation and of the phasing out of environmentally harmful subsidies, calls on the Commission to make environmental taxation a priority in the upcoming Annual Growth Survey;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Deplores the Country Specific Recommendations aimed at the decentralisation of wage setting and collective bargaining; calls on the Commission to refrain from these recommendations in the future;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the situation of unemployed young people is particularly worrying and that urgent action is needed; asks for a European Pact for Youth Employment that puts into effect the already long-agreed measures and commits new resources and measures to fighting youth unemployment, reducing the number of young people not in employment education or training (NEET) and poverty among young people, taking into account the qualitative aspect of decent work fully respecting core labour standards;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the adoption of the Youth Guarantee by the Council and the earmarking of EUR 6 billion for Youth Employment Initiative as part of the next MFF; calls on Member States to implement Youth Guarantee Schemes; calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that also Member States in the excessive deficit procedure have the fiscal space to make use of these measures, in particular by temporarily exempting the Member States' co-financing of measures to combat youth unemployment from the calculation of the excessive deficit;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages the Commission to continue the work of the Youth Employment Action Teams to help the Member States with the highest levels of youth unemployment to reprogramme EU structural funding of the 2007-2013 Multiannual Financial Framework in order to target it at young people; welcomes the Commission's intention to build on the European Job Mobility Portal (EURES) by intensifying and broadening its activities and, in particular, by promoting youth mobility;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the long-term unemployed should be supported by job creation and integrated active inclusion approaches including positive activation incentives, such as personalised guidance and welfare-to-work programmes, and adequate benefit systems in, and access to quality services in order to support them to reconnecting with the labour market and to access quality jobs;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that the largefull economic and job potential of the services sector remains untapped; calls for full and appropriate implementation of the EU Services Directive whilst safeguarding public service obligations which can ensure universal access to affordable quality services for all; calls on Member States to invest particularly in quality social services; calls on Member States to remove barriers in the retail sector and excessive restrictions in professional services and regulated professions;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the job potential of the green economy which according to Commission estimates could create 5 million jobs by 2020 in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors alone, provided that ambitious climate and energy policies are put in place; calls on the Member States to ensure sufficient levels of investment in these sectors and to anticipate future skills of workers and to guarantee job quality of 'Green jobs'; calls on the Commission to include the exploitation of the job potential of the green economy as a key priority in the Annual Growth Survey of 2014;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls the skills mismatches and bottlenecks in many regions and sectors and the inadequacy of certain education and training systems to cope with market demands and workers needs; welcomes the reforms of vocational education and training systems undertaken by several Member States in order to adapt skills and competences to labour market and (future) workers' needs, especially those of young people; recalls that almost all Member States need to undertake further action and investment in the field of education and training;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the crisis exacerbated by pro-cyclical fiscal consolidation policies has had a severe and lasting impact on the Member States' levels of unemployment and their social situation, which has led to unsustainable increases in poverty and social exclusion, including child poverty, homelessness, social inequality, in- work poverty and over-indebtedness of households; calls in this context on the Commission and Council to reconsider the pace and timing of fiscal consolidation and further extend deadlines for the correction of excessive deficits to allow for job creation; calls on Member States to reinforce the safety nets and ensure the effectiveness of the welfare systems that deal with those affected;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the fact that this year manyat some Member States made a greater effort to involve national parliaments, the social partners and civil society in drawing up their national reform programmes; stresses that the engagement of all stakeholders in the development of the necessary reforms is crucial to their delivery and success. , as well as to invite input from the same on CSRs but highlights that more needs to be done to ensure sufficient legitimacy and ownership; stresses that the engagement of all stakeholders in the development of the ambitious NRPs and CSRs which can ensure delivery on the EU2020 targets is crucial to their delivery and success; calls on the Commission to develop a code of guidance for stakeholder engagement monitored through the European Semester and to support funding for systematic national stakeholder engagement in the European Semester, requiring the annexing of stakeholder inputs to the NRP, and to hold an annual hearing together with the European Parliament involving stakeholders to assess progress on the targets and provide proposals for CSRs;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Council to enter into an interinstitutional agreement with Parliament in order to give Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to come up with a proposal to significantly strengthen and improve the involvement of social partners at the European level in the design, implementation and monitoring of policy guidance in social and employment matters of the European Semester;