Activities of Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA related to 2012/2003(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social Investment Pact (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT on Social Investment Pact – as a response to the crisis PDF (167 KB) DOC (102 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the majority of recent responses to the crisis were based mainly on short- term goals aimed at restoring stability to public finances, being crucial efforts to defend our economy, and whereas these austerity measures cshould have negative long-term effects on employment,be completed with growth- and competitiveness if not completed withemployment-friendly measures in order to restore employment, growth- and employment-friendly measurescompetitiveness in Europe;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the crisis requires a modernisation of the European Social Model, a rethinking of national social policies and a transition from an ‘active welfare state’, that omainly responds to emerging damages caused by market failure and is based on redistribution of public resources, to an ‘activating welfare state’, that invests in people and gives citizens instruments and incentives that will help them to adapt to changing economic and social conditions;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point a a (new)
a a) fight youth unemployment;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages those Member States who have not done it yet to introduce necessary reforms in order to improve the sustainability of their pension systems, increase the statutory retirement age and limit early retirement possibilities, and to combine this with the constant improvement of working conditions and the implementation of lifelong training schemes enabling longer professional careers;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States to consider signing to a ‘Social Investment Pact’, through which they would create a reinforced control mechanism for improving efforts to meet employment, social and education targets of Europe 2020; this 'Social Investment Pact', like e.g. the 'Euro Plus Pact', could contain a list of specific measures in form of social investments to be taken by Member States in a given timeframe in order to meet the employment, social and education targets of Europe 2020 and to restore employment, growth and competitiveness; these commitments should be subject to the regular surveillance framework with a strong role for the European Commission and the involvement of all relevant formations of the Council;