5 Amendments of Tamás DEUTSCH related to 2010/2010(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. considers that EU cohesion policy plays a crucial role in developing the job potential of a sustainable economy, as it helps eliminate regional differences and create a society with full employment; stresses that the European Structural Funds can encourage the regions to take initiatives to create new, sustainable jobs, particularly in some peripheral and border regions which are increasingly faced with the challenges caused by unemployment;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. recognises the important role of local and regional authorities in the education and training of young people, which forms the basis for the acquisition of further skills; points out that the general conditions governing education and further training in many countries are the responsibility of the regional authorities; therefore encourages the regions to use the Structural Funds to create sustainable jobs in the fields of local transport, urban mobility and, higher education and research and development;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. highlights the added value of the life- long learning idea and calls on the Member States to conduct a thorough mapping of local potentials in order to organize demand driven trainings, matching the available resources with the actual needs and to re-establish the prestige of vocational secondary education via providing high standard education, particularly in regions where local potentials and traditional work areas require special skills and knowledge to be fully developed; calls on the Commission to provide the Member States with sufficient technical support on how to map the local needs and notes that vocational secondary schools of high level standard could contribute to reduce graduate unemployment and lead to sustainable employment;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. stresses the importance of the geographical mobility of workers in accordance with the Treaties; recognises that an improvement in mobility through good local transport increases access to job opportunities; therefore encourages the regions to use resources from the Structural Funds for infrastructure measures; , and that the resulting multiplier effect is particularly important in border regions affected by high unemployment; therefore encourages the regions, and the local and regional administrations, authorities and NGOs in border areas, to use resources from the Structural Funds for infrastructure measures carried out in the context of national and inter-regional cooperation programmes;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. reiterates its support for the pilot project ‘Erasmus for elected local and regional representatives’, which could help local and regional authorities, and in particular elected representatives from border regions, to exchange best- practice models and could also have a multiplier effect in the area of labour market policy.