14 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2015/2330(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
- Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
- Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015)
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion; whereas in 2012 32.2 million persons with disabilities over 16 years are in this situation;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; however, more efforts should be done to have a more complex and objective evaluation based on the member states' diversity and characteristics;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that good and quality jobsflexible, quality and inclusive jobs available for every person based on skills and experience constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions, individualised support services, including the creation of temporal job opportunities even for the less educated people tailored to their skills, and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’ education and training systems to the needs of the labour marketsupport access to and retention employment in the open labour market for all people in Europe;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services with more attention to mainstream and individualised support services;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy with regard to social investment as a tool;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, and more attention should be paid on preserving the existing jobs of people at risk in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the need to promote sustainable growth leading to the creation of more and better jobs and tangible prospects for all, young people in particular, in order to respond to the internal and external challenges facing the EU;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructural and human capital development projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure social fairness or enhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Congratulates the Commission on having enhanced the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of the implementation of the country- specific recommendations, and on having presented a proposal to the Member States on funding for technical assistance; underlines that these funds should not solely be used to implement the country- specific recommendations, leaving out other important investment areas;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Social inclusion as a challengend technology as a opportunity for society
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a concrete plan on how the European Semester will be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; in particular by assessing access to quality community-based services for all people in Europe;