3 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2014/2213(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Observes that towns and cities have an important role to play in attaining the Europe 2020 objectives and must therefore be involved in the whole process of formulating policies at EU level, which can be achieved, inter alia, by means of the systematic inclusion of representatives of towns and cities in groups of experts; emphasise the concept of accessible towns and cities and urges the systematic involvement of representatives of people with disabilities and experts of the universal design in urban development;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls for public expenditure on combating unemployment and poverty and for the purpose of promoting social investment to be excluded from the calculation of the public deficit in order to facilitate greater productive investment by towns and cities stresses that a solution must be found to the problem of integrating poorly-trained young people into the labour market, by providing barrier-free, accessible and quality vocational and in-work training to help them acquire skills, taking into account the fact that the lack of qualifications can increase the risk of unemployment, which in turn increases the poverty risk and involves a multitude of social challenges linked to exclusion, alienation and the failed efforts in building an independent life; to this end, it is crucial helping more young people to stay at school and acquire the appropriate qualifications needed for a job and career and ensuring wider access to high-quality education with special projects for children from disadvantaged groups and minorities;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls on the Commission to actively promote gender budgeting and budgeting for universal design in Europe’s towns and cities; calls on the Commission furthermore to promote exchanges of best practices in gender budgeting and in planning accessible towns and cities;