20 Amendments of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2012/2151(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that a European Economic and Monetary Union should first and foremost serve the people and the real economy as a basis for increasing the living standards of all;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 2
Section 1 – paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to adopt growth-friendly policies aimed at maintaining and creating jobs; regrets that, contrary to budgetary discipline, employment hasand social welfare have not been considered as a EU top priority increasing the risk that, considering the financiar; warns that the constraint of policy making on economic and monetary matters and the lack of a balanced and holisation of the economy,c approach increases the risk of pro-cyclical impacts of initiatives originally designed to stabilise financial markets are pro-cyclical in their impact;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls that restructuring and relocation processes on a large scale have resulted in the loss of almost 2 million jobs during the last 3 years in the EU, and regrets that there has not been a European answer to facilitate the management of restructuring in a more social and economic responsible way;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 3
Section 1 – paragraph 3
3. Recalls the importance of the adoption of the Growth Pact and believes that new initiatives such as a Social Pact should follow;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 4
Section 1 – paragraph 4
4. Calls for a balanced interaction between economic and monetary policies on the one hand and employment and social policies on the other hand since the European social model is a driverthe core of economic competitiveness without which the Union's social market economy will not be able to climb out of the rutget back on track;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. Requests that in addition to the four building blocks outlined in the EMU roadmap, a fifth one, «Calls for setting up a fifth building block, 'Towards an integrated employment and social policy framework»', is set upn addition to the four building blocks outlined in the EMU roadmap in order to promote:
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 1
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 1
– the introduction of a European Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 1 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 1 a (new)
- an integrated active employment policy, including investment in human resource development, strategies for employment creation and improved working conditions, measures to encourage and support geographical mobility; forecasting of future occupational requirements, support for integration of disadvantaged groups into employment and income security during unemployment;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 1 b (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 1 b (new)
- a social investment pact, focusing on inclusive education and lifelong learning, quality jobs, active inclusion, social protection, inclusive services, equality and anti-discrimination; the increased use of EU funds for inclusion;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 4
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 4
– access to affordable and social housing;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 5
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 5
– the creation of a social protection floor to guarantee equwhich would provide for universal access to essential health services, income support and subsistence security;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 6 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 6 a (new)
- equal pay and equal rights for work of equal value for all;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 6 b (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 6 b (new)
- an allocation of 25% of cohesion funding for the European Social Fund;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 6 c (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 6 c (new)
- a new health and safety strategy including stress related diseases;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 7
Section 1 – paragraph 7
7. Underlines that fiscal consolidation and economic recovery require a stable level of internal consumption and adequate contribution to the welfare state and social security systems, which can only be achieved with high levels of quality employment, decent living wages and a fair burden sharing;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 8
Section 1 – paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that policy guidance for fiscal consolidation is fully coherent with the Union's objectives of social and sustainable development, based on Article 9 TFEU and that it is supplemented by a growth and employment package dedicated to sustainable development and quality jobs;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 10
Section 1 – paragraph 10
10. Deplores the fact that most Member States have not submitted a National Job Plan as part of their National Reform Programme 2012; considers that an integrated and strengthened economic policy framework must build on the principles of sustainable developmentgrowth and employment, while promoting social cohesion and social welfare;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 12
Section 1 – paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to strengthen fair mobility andwith measures to improve and support mobile workers, step up the fight against social dumping due to the misuse of posted workers, both in host and home countries, and to address the legal loopholes in the protection of workers involved in cross-border provision of services;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 14
Section 1 – paragraph 14
14. Calls for enhanced surveillance of the effects of economic and monetary policies on the social situation and the labour markets and measures to eliminate the negative social consequences of these policies; suggests therefore to add social policies linked with job creation to be added to the provisions on the surveillance of national economic policies in the framework of the European Semester;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 17
Section 1 – paragraph 17
17. Call forUnderlines the need to improve social governance at the European level in parallel ofwith the establishment of European economic governance., in order to ensure strong surveillance and monitoring of the employment and social targets of the Europe 2020 strategy as well as synergy effects and coherent policy making;