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European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

2020/2079(INI)

23.7.2020

AMENDMENTS1 - 406Draft reportKlára Dobrev(PE653.836v01-00)

Employment and social policies of the euro area 2020(2020/2079(INI))

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Amendment 1Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionCitation 1

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- having regard to Articles 3 and 5 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),

- having regard to Articles 3, 5 and Article 6(1) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),

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Amendment 2Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionCitation 1


- having regard to Articles 3 and 5 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),

- having regard to Articles 2, 3 and 5 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),

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- having regard to Articles 9, 145, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 165, 166, 174 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

- having regard to Articles 6, 9, 145, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 165, 166, 168, 174 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

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Amendment 4Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionCitation 2

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- having regard to Articles 9, 145, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 165, 166, 168, 174 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

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Amendment 5Abir Al-Sahlani, Monica Semedo, Dragoș PîslaruMotion for a resolutionCitation 2



- having regard to Articles 4, 9, 145, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 165, 166, 174 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

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- having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular Title IV (Solidarity) thereof,

- having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular Title IV (Solidarity) thereof and the Racial Equality Directive (Directive 2000/43/EC),

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Amendment 7Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionCitation 11 a (new)

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- having regard to the Joint Research Centre Technical Report entitled “The COVID confinement measures and EU labour markets” published in 2020 and, in particular, its analysis of the most recent evidence available of the patterns of telework in the European Union,

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Amendment 8Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionCitation 24 a (new)


- having regard to the announcement by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen in ‘A Union that strives for more: My agenda for Europe - Political Guidelines For The Next European Commission 2019-2024’: ‘To support every child in need, I will create the European Child Guarantee, picking up on the idea proposed by the European Parliament’,

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- having regard to the Commission communication of 26 April 2017 entitled ‘Establishing a European Pillar of Social Rights’ (COM(2017)0250),

- having regard to the Commission communication of 26 April 2017 entitled ‘Establishing a European Pillar of Social Rights’ (COM(2017)0250), and in particular Principle 11, reinforcing the importance of promoting children’s

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rights,

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- having regard to the European Council conclusions of 8 June 2020 on “Demographic challenges - the way ahead”,

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Amendment 11Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionCitation 25 b (new)


- having regard to Council conclusions of 20 June 2011on the reconciliation of work and family life in the context of demographic change (11841/11),

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- having regard to the Commission Delegated Regulation480/2014 supplementing Regulation 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council,

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- having regard to the Commission’s Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019, and to the European Pact for Gender Equality 2011-2020 and the Council conclusions thereon of 7 March 20119 ,

- having regard to the Commission’s Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019, and to the European Pact for Gender Equality 2011-2020 and the Council conclusions thereon of 7 March 20119 and the Commission communication of 5 March 2020 entitled ‘A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025’,

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- having regard to the Commission report of 29 May 2013 on Barcelona objectives -The development of childcare facilities for young children in Europe with a view to sustainable and inclusive growth (COM (2013)322),

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Amendment 15Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionCitation 37 a (new)


- having regard to the Commission communication of 1 July 2020 entitled

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‘European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience’,

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Amendment 16Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionCitation 41 a (new)


- having regard to the Commission communication of 20 October 2010 entitled ‘Solidarity in Health: Reducing Health Inequalities in the EU’ (COM(2009)0567),

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Amendment 17France JametMotion for a resolutionCitation 43


— having regard to its resolution of 10 October 2019 on employment and social policies of the euro area14,

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Amendment 18France JametMotion for a resolutionCitation 44


— having regard to its resolution of 13 March 2019 on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social

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aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 201915 ,

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Amendment 19Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionCitation 58 a (new)


- having regard to its resolution of 10 July 2020 on the EU’s public health strategy post-COVID-191,

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- having regard to the Commission report on equality between women and men 2014,

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- having regard to the European Commission “Feasibility Study for a Child Guarantee - final report” of March

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2020,

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Amendment 22Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionCitation 62 a (new)


- having regard to the Commission communication of 1 July 2020 entitled ‘Youth Employment Support: a bridge to jobs for the next generation’ COM(2020)276),

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Amendment 23Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Emmanouil FragkosMotion for a resolutionCitation 62 a (new)


- having regard to the Committee of the Regions Opinion of 15 September 2017 entitled ‘Entrepreneurship on Islands: contributing towards territorial cohesion’,

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Amendment 24Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Miriam Lexmann, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana TomcMotion for a resolutionCitation 69 a (new)


- having regard to its resolution of 19 June 2020 on European protection of cross-border and seasonal workers in the context of the COVID-19 crisis2,

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2 Text adopted, P9_TA(2020)0176.

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Amendment 25Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionCitation 69 a (new)


- having regard to the Commission's Economic Forecast Summer 2020,

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Amendment 26Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionCitation 69 b (new)


- having regard to the Commission Staff Working Document entitled ‘Identifying Europe’s recovery needs’ (SWD(2020) 98),

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Amendment 27Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionRecital A


A. whereas EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 7.5 % in 2020;

A. whereas EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 7.5 % in 2020, while the euro area GDP is forecast to experience an even sharper drop of about -8,7% in the same period;

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Amendment 28Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital A


A. whereas EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 7,5 % in 2020;

A. whereas EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 8.3 % in 2020, while euro area GDP is forecast to contract by 8.7 %;

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Amendment 29Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas the EU entered the deepest economic recession in its history, economic activity in Europe dropping at an unusually fast speed; whereas according to the Summer 2020 Economic forecast, EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 8.3% and the euro area by 8.7% in 2020;

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Amendment 30Abir Al-Sahlani, Monica Semedo, Dragoș PîslaruMotion for a resolutionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas the free movement of workers is a fundamental principle of the European Union and essential to the proper functioning of the Internal Market;

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Amendment 31Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis is a symmetric shock affecting all Members States, though the impact of the crisis is set to be uneven;

B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis is a symmetric shock affecting all Members States, though the impact of the crisis is set to be uneven; whereas the COVID-19 crisis requires a coordinated European response ensuring social and territorial cohesion;

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Amendment 32José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital B



B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis produced a symmetric shock affecting all Members States, though the impact of the crisis is set to be uneven having a stronger impact on the more than 109 million citizens already living at risk of poverty before the pandemic;

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Amendment 33Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital B



B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis is a symmetric shock affecting all Members States, though the impact of the crisis is set to be uneven and likely to penalise

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vulnerable people and workers the most, and to increase the existing inequalities;

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Amendment 34Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas the current crisis has had a huge impact on our working habits - flexible working arrangements, such as remote work and flexible working hours have become the norm and the use of digital technologies is on the rise; whereas their use in the future would be economically and socially beneficial in the long run, but brings about very challenging issues like, social isolation, data protection, workers' health and the protection of employees and workers' rights;

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Amendment 35Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


Bb. whereas in particular the pay gap, the employment gap as well as the social protection gap between men and women, disproportionate burden on women in the provision of care, strengthening and equality of families, youth unemployment, labour market segmentation and inequalities, in-work poverty, productivity, wage growth, pensions, social protection and health care systems were areas for significant improvement even before COVID-19 crisis;

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Amendment 36Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


Bc. whereas, since long, the world of work is undergoing transformative change in the form of shortage of work, concentration of work, increased demands, more controlling, more flexible, precarious employment relationships and seasonal work;

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Amendment 37Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital B d (new)


Bd. whereas this transformative change is driven by the principle of profit maximisation instead of people, technological innovation, digitization, demographic shifts, climate change, and globalisation;

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Amendment 38France Jamet, Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Elena Lizzi, Dominique Bilde, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionRecital C


C. whereas effective European economic, social and health policy coordination with the European Semester at its core is crucial for mitigating the effects of the crisis;

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Amendment 39Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara GemmaMotion for a resolutionRecital C



C. whereas the immediate revision of the Stability and Growth Pact and the establishment of a new European coordination framework for economic, social and health policies are crucial for appropriately protecting the living standards of all citizens without exacerbating the effects of the crisis;

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Amendment 40Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital C



C. whereas effective European economic, social and health policy coordination with the European Semester at its core is crucial for mitigating the effects of the crisis; whereas a stronger involvement of the European Parliament strengthens the democratic oversight of the Semester;

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Amendment 41Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital C


C. whereas effective European C. whereas effective European

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economic, social and health policy coordination with the European Semester at its core is crucial for mitigating the effects of the crisis;

economic, social and health policy coordination with the European Semester at its core is crucial for mitigating the effects of the crisis and ensuring a recovery which is economically innovative, socially fair and environmentally responsible;

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Amendment 42José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital C



C. whereas effective European economic, social and health policy coordination is crucial for mitigating the effects of the crisis; whereas a stronger involvement of the European Parliament in the Semester will ensure a more democratic economic governance;

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Amendment 43Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital C



C. whereas effective European economic, social and health policy coordination with the European Semester based on the European Pillar of Social Rights at its core is crucial for mitigating the effects of the crisis;

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Amendment 44Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele Bischoff

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Motion for a resolutionRecital C a (new)


Ca. whereas according to the accompanying Staff Working Document Identifying Europe’s recovery needs, the most pressing social need is addressing unemployment; whereas, the Commission in this document estimates that the investment needed for social infrastructure will be 192bn;

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Amendment 45Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital C a (new)


Ca. while investment in skills, qualifications and formal training for adults strengthens the employability of workers, wage developments and business competitiveness;

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Amendment 46José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital D


D. whereas social investments are essential to ensure sustainable development and inclusive societies;

D. whereas social investments are essential to ensure sustainable development, poverty eradication and inclusive societies; whereas the decision of the Council of 23 March 2020 of activating the General Escape Clause should lead to a revision of the Stability and Growth Pact in order to better tackle the consequences of the pandemic as well as the causes for the imbalances between

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Member States;

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Amendment 47Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara GemmaMotion for a resolutionRecital D



D. whereas it is essential to improve legal safeguards through appropriate regulatory action and an increase in social investments in order to combat poverty and social exclusion adequately, while guaranteeing sustainable development and inclusive societies that are capable of ensuring that all citizens enjoy their social rights in full;

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Amendment 48Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital D



D. whereas the Council decision of 23 March 2020 activated the general escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact allowing for the needed flexibility to take all necessary measures to support the economies and health systems; whereas social investments are essential to ensure sustainable development and inclusive societies;

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Amendment 49Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital D

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D. whereas social investments are essential to ensure sustainable development and inclusive societies; whereas social investments such as the availability of childcare and early childhood education and training result in people being more productive and feeling more comfortable;

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Amendment 50France Jamet, Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Dominique Bilde, Stefania Zambelli, Elena LizziMotion for a resolutionRecital D



D. whereas social investments are essential to ensure the material and social progress of the Member States;

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Amendment 51Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital D a (new)


Da. whereas implementation of the 2013 EU Recommendation on investing in children has not had as great an impact as hoped for; whereas the European Semester has not sufficiently prioritised tackling child poverty and social exclusion and EU funds have not been used as extensively or strategically as they could have been;

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Amendment 52Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana Toom

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D a (new)


Da. whereas the urgency of the recovery must go hand in hand with the commitments of the European Union and its Member States to implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the objectives of the Green Compact and the Paris Agreement;

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Amendment 53Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital D b (new)


Db. whereas, as was the case with the Council Recommendation on a Youth Guarantee, even if it remains a soft instrument, the introduction of new (Council) Recommendation on an EU Child Guarantee building on the existing legal frameworks and policy instruments and especially the 2013 Recommendation on investing in children, would be an effective way to ensure that Member States make visible a high-level political commitment to guaranteeing the social rights of children(particular those in vulnerable situations) and combating child poverty and social exclusion; whereas implementing this via some selective, high-profile, clear-cut, concrete and relatively operational objectives as well as concrete policy levers and policy outcomes - for which the political authorities can be held accountable - would then become a priority for the European Member States;

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Amendment 54Miriam LexmannMotion for a resolutionRecital E


E. whereas austerity policies resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems, which aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain Member States;

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Amendment 55Sara SkyttedalMotion for a resolutionRecital E



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Amendment 56José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital E



E. whereas austerity policies resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems, which were not sufficient to proportionally and adequately support people experiencing poverty and inequalities aggravating the effects of the pandemic in the majority of Member States;

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Amendment 57Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara GemmaMotion for a resolutionRecital E



E. whereas austerity policies resulted in a reduction of workers’ rights, the growth of precariousness and in-work poverty and a decrease in the funding and protection of social and healthcare systems, leading also to an aggravation of the effects of the pandemic in certain Member States;

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Amendment 58Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital E



E. whereas austerity policies resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems, which were unable to adequately support people in need, reduce poverty and inequalities, and aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain Member States;

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Amendment 59Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital E


E. whereas austerity policies resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems, which aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain

E. whereas certain political choices made in the wake of the financial and economic crisis had regrettable consequences on the level of protection

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Member States; provided by the sometimes underfunded social and healthcare systems, which aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain Member States;

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Amendment 60Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital E



E. whereas long-term budgetary rigour is needed to sustain the Member States’ welfare systems;

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Amendment 61France Jamet, Elena Lizzi, Dominique Bilde, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionRecital E



E. whereas the austerity policies implemented by the bodies of the European Union resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems, which aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain Member States;

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Amendment 62Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionRecital E


E. whereas austerity policies resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems, which aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain

E. whereas excessively restrictive spending policies and investment priorities resulted in less protective and underfunded social and healthcare systems,

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Member States; which aggravated the effects of the pandemic in certain Member States;

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Amendment 63Guido Reil, Nicolaus FestMotion for a resolutionRecital E



E. whereas the pandemic has underlined the need of strong social and health care systems in the Member States;

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Amendment 64Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital E a (new)


Ea. whereas decisive measures and investment are needed for a speedy recovery that should focus on mitigating the economic and social effects of the pandemic, restart the economic activity, foster sustainable development, the green transition, the digital transformation and implement the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) in order to achieve more effective and stronger welfare states;

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Amendment 65José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital E a (new)

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Ea. whereas those Member States that will be benefitting from the proposed Recovery and Resilience Facility should establish plans in the context of the European Semester with clear targets on social progress based on the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals;

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Amendment 66Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital E a (new)


Ea. whereas ECB programs did not reach the real economy and simultaneously a lot of capital was extracted from the real economy; whereas this dual development contributed to the vulnerability of our societies that manifested itself during the health crisis;

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Amendment 67Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital E b (new)


Eb. whereas socially sustainable reforms are those based on solidarity, integration, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, gender equality, a high-quality public education system, quality employment and sustainable growth - a model that ensures equality and social protection, empowers vulnerable groups, enhances

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participation and citizenship and improves living standards for all citizens;

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Amendment 68José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital E b (new)


Eb. whereas reinforced social protection systems are crucial for the fight against poverty and inequalities;

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Amendment 69Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital E c (new)


Ec. whereas to benefit from the proposed Recovery and Resilience Facility Member States will prepare recovery and resilience plans annexed to their national reform programmes taking into account the findings of the European Semester, as well as national energy and climate plans and just transition plans, and report on their progress in implementing the plans in the context of the European Semester; whereas these plans should include specific social progress plans outlining how the principles of the EPSR are going to be implemented and where social investment is going to be targeted;

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Amendment 70Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella

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Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital E d (new)


Ed. whereas social welfare systems guarantee a decent life; whereas these systems include social security, healthcare, education, housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups and play a key role in achieving social sustainable development, promoting equality and social justice and ensuring the right to social protection as it is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948); whereas social protection policies are vital elements of national development strategies to reduce poverty and vulnerability across the life cycle and to support inclusive and sustainable growth;

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Amendment 71Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital F


F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7,5 % in 2019 to about 9,5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States;

F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States; whereas many companies have either been forced to close or are likely to have to do so; whereas national short-time working systems, supported by European measures, enable jobs to be maintained and salaries to be broadly kept unchanged; whereas many jobs remain at very high risk in the medium term;

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Amendment 72Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F


F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States;

F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States; whereas unemployment is set to rise unevenly across sectors and groups of population affecting youth and those in low-skilled or temporary work and in precarious working conditions;

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Amendment 73José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital F


F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States;

F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States, impacting differently youth, low-skilled, non-standard and other precarious workers;

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Amendment 74Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital F


F. whereas the euro area F. whereas the euro area

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unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States;

unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States, genders, age groups and socio-economic groups;

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Amendment 75Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital F


F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7,5 % in 2019 to about 9,5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States;

F. whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7.5 % in 2019 to about 9.5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States, rising to over 20 %;

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Amendment 76Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital F a (new)


Fa. whereas the primary responsibility for tackling youth unemployment rests with the Member States in terms of developing and implementing labour market regulatory frameworks, education and training systems and active labour market policies;

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Amendment 77Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital F a (new)


Fa. whereas there is an urgent need for a vision of society in which families

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and businesses are among the core elements, as they generate the wealth that balances the social and labour-based ecosystem;

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Amendment 78José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital F a (new)


Fa. whereas the crisis is leading to a degradation of the labour market conditions which risks to limit increases in wages and reinforces the declining of collective bargaining power;

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Amendment 79Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F a (new)


Fa. whereas short-time work schemes, wage subsidies and support for businesses will limit job losses but significant effort will be needed to tackle unemployment;

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Amendment 80Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F b (new)


Fb. whereas in the first half of 2020,the euro area labour market

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underwent a massive deterioration induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it; whereas the decline in employment of about 4% in 2020 hides a more substantial deterioration in the number of hours worked, as employees in short-time work schemes are de facto unemployed but remain statistically employed; whereas, to be counted as unemployed, a person has to be available to the labour market, which was not possible everywhere during strict lockdowns and many persons only loosely attached to the labour market were also discouraged from actively seeking a job and therefore did not count as unemployed;

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Amendment 81Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital F b (new)


Fb. whereas Member States are faced with structural challenges in the labour market such as low participation as well as skills and qualification mismatches; whereas there is a growing need for concrete measures for the integration or re-integration of inactive workforce to meet labour market demands;

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Amendment 82Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F c (new)


Fc. whereas extended short-time work schemes have played an important role in

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keeping employees attached to their jobs and the number of persons notified for short-time work have reached unprecedented levels; whereas these schemes are not identical in all Member States, which contributes to marked differences; whereas, in the future, the European Unemployment Reinsurance scheme could limit such differences by assisting Member States to cover the costs directly related to the creation or extension of national short-time work schemes;

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Amendment 83Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F d (new)


Fd. whereas the burden of the labour market deterioration is carried unevenly across labour market categories; whereas workers with precarious working conditions and contracts, including contract workers and workers employed through temporary agencies were the first to lose their jobs; whereas oftentimes they are unable to enforce their rights, have little or no job security and social insurance protection and face higher health and safety risks; whereas the youth unemployment rate has increased more than the overall rate and self-employed persons have also suffered massively from the shutdowns;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital F e (new)


Fe. whereas according to the Summer 2020 forecast, several factors are expected to slow the labour market’s return to its pre-pandemic situation, for instance limited time short-time work subsidy schemes; whereas in the case of a prolonged period of weak economic activity and with an increasing number of firms expected to downsize their activities or go out of business, schemes cannot fully prevent an eventual increase in unemployment; whereas the expected rise in unemployment rates across the EU may prove particularly hard to overcome in those Member States where unemployment was already relatively high before the start of the pandemic, where the economic rebound is expected to be slow, or labour markets and social safety nets lack efficiency and effectiveness;

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Amendment 85Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F f (new)


Ff. whereas according to Eurostat, in 2018, there were 8.3 million underemployed part-time workers in the EU-28, 7.6 million persons were available to work, but did not look for a job, and another 2.2 million persons were looking for jobs, without being able to start working within a short time period; whereas in total 18.1 million persons experienced some resemblance to unemployment in the EU-28 in 2018;

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Amendment 86Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F g (new)


Fg. whereas between 2002 and 2018, the EU share of middle-paying jobs declined by 13 percentage points;

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Amendment 87Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F h (new)


Fh. whereas the deterioration in the labour market situation is projected to limit increases in wages and salaries and weakened the bargaining power of workers; whereas social dialogue and collective bargaining are key instruments for employers and trade unions to establish fair wages and working conditions, and strong collective bargaining systems increase Member States’ resilience in times of economic crisis;

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Amendment 88Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F i (new)

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Fi. whereas the right to establish collective bargaining is an issue that concerns all European workers with crucial implications for democracy and rule of law, including the respect of fundamental social rights and collective bargaining is a European fundamental right and European Institutions are bound by Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights to respect it; whereas, in this context, policies that respect, promote and strengthen collective bargaining and the workers’ position in wage-setting systems play a critical role in achieving high-level working conditions;

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Amendment 89Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital F j (new)


Fj. whereas collective bargaining coverage deteriorated in 22 of 27 Member States since 2000; whereas the average level of union membership across the European Union is around 23%, with great differences among Member States, ranging from 74% to 8 %;

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Amendment 90Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital G


G. whereas the crisis will have a G. whereas the crisis will have a

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significant impact on social conditions, in particular for vulnerable groups;

significant impact on social conditions; whereas the COVID-19 crisis affects vulnerable groups in particular, resulting in increased inequalities, fragility, poverty, unemployment and social divergences, as well as undermining social and employment standards in Europe; whereas young people and non-standard workers are at greatest risk of losing their jobs and falling into poverty,

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Amendment 91Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital G


G. whereas the crisis will have a significant impact on social conditions, in particular for vulnerable groups;

G. whereas the crisis will have a significant impact on social conditions, in particular for women workers, elderly people and vulnerable groups, including workers on temporary contracts, persons with low qualifications, the involuntary part-time and self-employed, and migrant workers; whereas many workers in essential occupations in the frontline response to the COVID-19 pandemic belong to these vulnerable categories;

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Amendment 92José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital G



G. whereas the crisis will have a significant impact on social conditions, in particular for vulnerable groups, including workers on temporary contracts, persons with low qualifications, involuntary part-time and self-employed, platform and

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migrant workers widening inequality and the risk of poverty;

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Amendment 93Miriam LexmannMotion for a resolutionRecital G



G. whereas the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting the most vulnerable groups hardest and has created new vulnerable groups, and it is anticipated that it will continue to have a significant impact on social conditions;

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Amendment 94Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital G



G. whereas the crisis will have a significant impact on social conditions, in particular for women workers, elderly people, vulnerable and minority groups;

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Amendment 95France Jamet, Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Elena Lizzi, Stefania Zambelli, Dominique BildeMotion for a resolutionRecital G



G. whereas the crisis will have a significant impact on the socio-economic situation of the citizens of the Member States, in particular the least well-off;

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Amendment 96Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital G a (new)


Ga. whereas the crisis has shown that every worker is essential and that if our societies are functioning in confinement, it is not only thanks to healthcare workers, researchers and security forces but to a large extent also to cleaners, transport workers, supermarket cashiers, care workers, delivery workers, domestic workers, platform workers, workers in call centres, food and agricultural workers, fishermen and many others whose contributions are indispensable; whereas too often these workers have poor working conditions and low wages and in many sectors the majority of them are women;

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Amendment 97Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital G a (new)


Ga. whereas the pay and pension gaps between men and women remain and are likely to widen with the COVID-19 crisis; whereas across the EU, women still earn on average 16% less than men and the gender gap for pensions is around 37.2% in the EU;

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Amendment 98Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital G a (new)


Ga. whereas the digitalisation can be an opportunity to reduce social inequality but it might also become a force for digital exclusion and exacerbate the pronounced inequalities that already exist today;

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Amendment 99Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital G a (new)


Ga. whereas young people, the long-term unemployed and older workers are at risk of being excluded from the labour market;

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Amendment 100José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital G a (new)


Ga. whereas progressive taxation is crucial to fight inequality in order to finance more inclusive welfare systems;

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Amendment 101Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital G b (new)

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Gb. whereas entrepreneurship is the primary generator of employment and wealth in society, and whereas families depend on policies that foster and marshal resources to enable entrepreneurs to provide workers with decent, stable jobs;

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Amendment 102Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital G b (new)


Gb. whereas the current crisis also entails a risk of widening regional and territorial disparities across and within Member States;

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Amendment 103José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital G b (new)


Gb. whereas the Country Specific Recommendations do not have a clear focus on wealth taxation and on progressive income taxation;

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Amendment 104Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital G c (new)

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Gc. whereas in the next decade, job polarisation is expected to grow further, jobs in the higher and lower skills spectrum are expected to grow; whereas this trend is likely to be further reinforced by the pandemic; whereas progressive taxation is a necessary precondition to reduce overall inequality and finance well-functioning welfare states;

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Amendment 105Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital G c (new)


Gc. whereas the public purse should be used for the benefit of people’s personal, family and working lives to guarantee proper social cohesion and to ensure that the link between public and private life is not broken;

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Amendment 106Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara GemmaMotion for a resolutionRecital H


H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems, and social protection can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demand;

H. whereas the adoption of legislative measures to ensure fair living wages and, in any case, wages that are above the relative poverty level, strong collective bargaining systems and the highest levels of social protection are paramount for combating in-work poverty and economic and social inequalities, and for generating demand; whereas employment and social policies should be fully consistent with the goal of fully implementing the

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European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal;

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Amendment 107Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems, democracy at work, wage transparency, predictable working hours, adequate social protection and tax benefits can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demand; whereas, according to Eurofound definition, a living wage is the amount of income needed to provide an employee with a basic but socially acceptable standard of living; whereas minimum wages in the majority of countries remain below 60% or even below 50% of median wages;

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Amendment 108Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems, flexible sectoral agreements and company-by-company arrangements, as well as social protection can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demand;

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Amendment 109José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems, adequate social protection and investment in public services can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demand;

Or. en

Amendment 110Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems, and social protection can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities, generate demand and improve health and wellbeing;

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Amendment 111Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems, and social protection can reduce in-work poverty, decrease health and social inequalities and generate demand;

Or. en

Amendment 112Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

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Motion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair living wages, strong collective bargaining systems and social protection can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate economic growth;

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Amendment 113Miriam LexmannMotion for a resolutionRecital H



H. whereas fair remuneration, decent and sustainable jobs, and social protection can reduce in-work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demand;

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Amendment 114Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas the COVID-19 has thrown a spotlight on the future importance of health and safety in the workplace, and the need to improve working conditions as well as working time conditions and adapt them to the new reality, including flexible work arrangements (with workers being given more freedom to organise their work) and work-life balance, all of which are important EU policy objectives;

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Amendment 115Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas the development and training of workers in their vocational and personal skills are the best way of helping them achieve the excellence expected of them, fostering social responsibility that guarantees respect for personal freedom and dignity;

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Amendment 116Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas social protection systems are under severe pressure to mitigate the social impact of the crisis and ensure decent living conditions for all as well as access to essential services such as health, education and housing;

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Amendment 117José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas a variety of minimum income schemes exist in the majority of Member States in order to establish a safety net for those living at risk of poverty; whereas a European directive on minimum income would be welcomed;

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Amendment 118Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas digitalisation and artificial intelligence and their promotion in an inclusive, secure and neutral way are crucial for all industry sectors, increasing competitiveness, creating job opportunities and economic prosperity;

Or. en

Amendment 119France Jamet, Stefania Zambelli, Dominique Bilde, Elena Lizzi, Guido Reil, Nicolaus FestMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas the organisation of the labour market in all its aspects, and particularly legislation on the minimum wage, is the responsibility of the Member States;

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Amendment 120Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas various forms of minimum income schemes exist in all Member States in order to provide a social protection floor and safety net for those in need;

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Amendment 121Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas COVID-19 has exposed the gaps in social protection for many in our societies, in particular for platform workers, migrants and refugees;

Or. en

Amendment 122Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionRecital H a (new)


Ha. whereas a high level of human health protection shall be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Union policies and activities;

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Amendment 123Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionRecital H b (new)


Hb. whereas the Commission communication of 20 October 2010 entitled ‘Solidarity in Health: Reducing Health Inequalities in the EU’ (COM(2009)0567) underlines that, throughout the EU, there is a social gradient in health status; whereas the WHO defines this social gradient as being the link between socioeconomic

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inequalities and inequalities in the areas of health and access to healthcare; whereas health inequalities are rooted in social inequalities in terms of living conditions and models of social behaviour notably linked to gender, educational standards, employment, income and the unequal distribution of access to medical assistance, sickness prevention and health promotion services;

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Amendment 124Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionRecital H b (new)


Hb. whereas current and traditional demographic trends in the EU are negative; whereas COVID-19 puts additional burden on most vulnerable groups of society and sound families have proven again to be a fundamental shelter against poverty and social exclusion;

Or. en

Amendment 125Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionRecital H b (new)


Hb. whereas cultivating virtues during character-building is essential to ensure that people have the values and principles that enable a society to encompass personal considerations and collective ones;

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Amendment 126Kira Marie Peter-Hansen

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on behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionRecital H b (new)


Hb. whereas COVID-19 has worsened the already unacceptable gender employment gap which will worsen the gender pensions gap; whereas COVID-19 has worsened the already unequal sharing of caring responsibilities between men and women;

Or. en

Amendment 127Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionRecital H b (new)


Hb. whereas global challenges such as digitalisation and the fight against climate change persist and require a just transition so as to leave no one behind;

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Amendment 128Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupKatrin LangensiepenMotion for a resolutionRecital H c (new)


Hc. Whereas homelessness has increased consistently in most Member States over the past decade; whereas at least 700,000 people are homeless on any given night in the EU, 70% more than a decade ago; whereas COVID-19 has demonstrated that homelessness is both a social and public health crisis;

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Amendment 129Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1


1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019;

1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019; calls for the implementation rate of the country specific recommendations to be stepped up in the euro area and beyond; urges the Commission to enhance the CSRs for eurozone members by creating a matrix framework where social policies related to the European Pillar of Social Rights, such as inclusive access to education, health, nutrition, employment and housing, and the preservation of social rights, are analysed by social segment, for example children, young people, older people (in the field of long-term care for elderly people), minorities, migrants and people with disabilities, thereby creating a much more accurate image of the economic and social health of the Member States, and to examine the possible extension of this new component of the CSRs to non-Eurozone members; points out that CSRs should be coherent with economic, social and environmental EU objectives and should reinforce rather than contradict each other; calls on the Commission and the Member States to define a European sustainability strategy to overcome social, economic and climate challenges; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce social rights by proposing legislation, including financial instruments where appropriate and following review, to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights within the limits of their respective competences

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as laid down in the Treaties and in compliance with subsidiarity;

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Amendment 130Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara GemmaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); stresses that the continued existence of the rules laid down in the Stability and Growth Pact is preventing Member States from making the necessary progress in order adequately to respond to the unprecedented economic and social shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; is of the view that the CSRs should be the expression of a new regulatory framework that allows for the adoption of multi-tier public policies that are fully consistent with the aim of achieving full employment, the full enjoyment of social rights for all citizens and a swift and socially just transition to a circular, climate-neutral economy;

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Amendment 131Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019 and progress remains uneven across policy areas; points out that since the start

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of the European Semester in 2011 progress has been particularly slow on broadening the tax base, as well as on health and long-term care with the healthcare systems being further challenged because of the COVID-19;

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Amendment 132José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019 and progress is uneven across Member States and policy areas; points out that the focus on CSRs in labour market deregulation, procyclical economic policies and privatizations have left several Member States with significant vulnerabilities when facing Covid-19 economic and social crisis;

Or. en

Amendment 133Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019; stresses that the implementation of CSRs is crucial to foster social inclusion and improve social rights; urges the Commission to put pressure on Member States, regardless of their membership in

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the euro area, to implement the recommendations;

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Amendment 134Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019; regrets the fact that too many CSRs are not implemented and urges the Member States to implement them, particularly those concerning employment and social aspects;

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Amendment 135Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Elena Lizzi, Stefania Zambelli, France JametMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Is of the opinion that labour market and employment policy should belong to the exclusive competence of the Member States and, accordingly, rejects the Commission's country-specific recommendations (CSRs);

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Amendment 136Samira Rafaela, Véronique Trillet-LenoirMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2

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2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of the current crisis;

2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups such as older people, people with disabilities, women, racial and ethnic minority, LGBTQI+ people, refugees and migrants who are particularly vulnerable to the virus or its consequences; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of the current crisis; calls on the Member States to use the REACT-EU package to help the most disadvantaged by ensuring adequate funding from the European Aid Fund for the Most Deprived (FEAD), to support employment especially the youth in the funding granted by the European Social Fund (ESF) ) as well as to act concretely in favour of EU cohesion, notably in the outermost regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories;

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2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups, especially workers who were in the front line during the crisis; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of the current crisis; calls in this context on the Member States to use the REACT-EU package to ensure aid for the most deprived by guaranteeing adequate funding for the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), to support retention and the return to employment by prioritising

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young people in the funding provided by the European Social Fund (ESF), and to take specific action in support of cohesion and the territories of the Union, in particular the outermost regions;

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2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response, based on a new European economic governance framework, can enable the necessary employment and social policies to be adopted in order fully to protect the economic and social rights of all citizens and to avoid any harmful social repercussions of the current unprecedented crisis;

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2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on women, elderly and vulnerable groups which further increases inequalities and social divergences and weakens social and employment standards in Europe; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the social

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consequences of the current crisis and will demonstrate that the EU is an indispensable project based on social justice, solidarity and integration;

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Amendment 140Miriam LexmannMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups, especially the elderly, persons with disabilities, persons belonging to minorities or persons facing multiple discrimination, but also new vulnerable groups created by the pandemic; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response that also thinks ahead to future crises will offset the consequences of the current crisis;

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Amendment 141France Jamet, Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Elena Lizzi, Dominique Bilde, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis;

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on behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, exacerbating and widening pre-existing inequalities, while creating new ones, in particular on women, elderly, vulnerable and minority groups such as the Roma; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of the current crisis;

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Amendment 143Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and people with disabilities; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of the current crisis;

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2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups increasing inequality; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the social consequences of the current

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crisis;

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Amendment 145Maria WalshMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Is concerned about the devastating social and psychological effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of the current crisis;

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Amendment 146Sara SkyttedalMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups; stresses that a decisive and coordinated European response will help offset the consequences of the current crisis;

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Amendment 147Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2


2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups; stresses that only a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the

2. Is concerned about the devastating social effects of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on vulnerable groups; stresses that a decisive and coordinated European response will offset the consequences of

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consequences of the current crisis; the current crisis;

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Amendment 148José GusmãoMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Considers that despite the announcements about the urgent necessity of balancing economic and social dimensions and foster upward convergence, the European Semester does not have a concrete agenda and actions to fight poverty and therefore a concrete strategy with a set of targets and a monitoring process should be established;

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Amendment 149Abir Al-SahlaniMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Regrets that only 3,9 % of EU citizens in the working age reside in an EU country other than that of their citizenship in 2018; calls for increased efforts from the Commission and Member States to reduce mobility barriers for workers and businesses;

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has

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proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary in order to preserve jobs, help companies and support a robust recovery; demands a supportive fiscal stance (active fiscal policy) to currently be warranted in all Member States to facilitate the recovery of consumption, investment and growth; demands for lending and financial support to specific sectors including the health sector, ideally via Manacle-Bonds1; demands that social, economic and ecological objectives should have equal priority and be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability within the next budget; and that the European Semester should be enhanced to include a social dimension all throughout its cycle involving the competent bodies of the EU and Member States which deal with social policies; demands an ambitious MFF that will meet the needs of existing and new programmes; demands that new own resources and the abolishment of rebates

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are put in place;

_______________________________1 A concept developed by the Family Party of Germany to fund projects to tackle the impact of COVID-19

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and to prevent and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; warns that this overly restrictive nature of the SGP is counterproductive in the path towards social and ecological justice, as long as the objectives of the EPSR and of the Sustainable Development Goals are not made mandatory; therefore, demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability; calls for the adoption of a permanent ‘silver rule’ on social investments to be applied when implementing the SGP, namely to consider public social investments having a clear positive impact on economic growth as being eligible for favourable treatment when assessing government deficits;

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability; calls in that regard on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility made available by the General Escape Clause by establishing a ‘golden rule’ on social investment in order to finance quality jobs, public services, the fight against poverty and the green transition;

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis too, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, by not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands the immediate revision of the Stability and Growth Pact and calls for social and ecological objectives to be included in a number of multi-tier regulatory measures, reflecting a holistic approach that is able to ensure full implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal;

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact – via the application of the escape clause – allows Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate social consequences;

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3. Recalls that the Stability and Growth Pact is a prerequisite for a stable European economy that can handle future crises; Reiterates, in this regard, the importance of Member States being committed to the pact;

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Amendment 157Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Elena Lizzi, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary;

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Amendment 158Dennis Radtke, Miriam Lexmann, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3



3. Highlights that in the current crisis Member States remain fully committed to the Stability and Growth Pact and welcomes their decision to make use of the general escape clause to ensure the needed flexibility to take all necessary measures to support the health of the European citizens and civil protections systems and to stabilise the European social market economy; asks for better integration and strengthening of the role of the social and ecological objectives;

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Amendment 159Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3


3. Highlights that in the current crisis, 3. Highlights that in the current crisis,

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the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be sufficiently flexible, with the activation of the general escape clause, to allow the Member States to use the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances, support companies and workers and mitigate the social consequences; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

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3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be insufficient on its own, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences thereof, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same relevance as fiscal consolidation and financial stability where applicable;

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Amendment 161France JametMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3


3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be

3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be damaging to the economy, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological

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given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

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Amendment 162Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3



3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances, prevent and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability;

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4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

4. Stresses the importance of fiscal systems based on the utmost fairness in the implementation of the progressivity criterion, in order to ensure the highest levels of social justice; considers that there is an urgent need for appropriate measures to be taken at EU level to put an end to the aggressive tax planning permitted under current legislation in some Member States and to combat tax havens outside the EU more effectively; stresses the need to adopt stricter rules to tackle corruption, tax avoidance and tax evasion; points out that appropriate measures to counter these serious

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problems would generate substantial additional amounts for the budget that would significantly increase public investment to improve education and public health, social protection systems, health and safety at work, active labour policies, policies to protect against poverty and social exclusion and to speed up the socially just transition to a circular and climate-neutral economy;

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4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems; points out that our common human values should be guiding our debates on the budget and we should aim for a budget that will lead to an economy that reflects this notion better and will lead to a more humane Europe; calls for enhancing the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of how EU funds are used so as to improve effective use and public interest;

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4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment,

4. Calls on the Member States to secure the adequacy and sustainability of the pension systems for workers and self-employed. Pension reforms should be

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especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

supported by measures that extend working lives, such as by raising the effective retirement age, and be framed within active ageing strategies. Member States should establish a constructive dialogue with social partners and other relevant stakeholders, and allow an appropriate phasing in of the reforms.

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4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems; stresses that the debt reduction focus in the Semester’s macroeconomic imbalance procedure (MIP) has regressive impact as it reduces the capacity of public services to address inequalities;

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4. Points out that sound and responsible fiscal policies, and in general budgetary stability are the key to sustained, robust public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems, always bearing in mind the need to ensure enough flexibility to respond to unforeseen events

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or crises;

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4. Points out how important sound and responsible fiscal policies and budgetary stability are to guarantee the long-term sustainability of the welfare system; points out, furthermore, that the Member States should be given fiscal space in the short term to protect the businesses affected, as well as their workers;

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4. Points out that sound and responsible fiscal policy builds on budgetary stability, but does not hinder effective public investment in reformed education, social, healthcare, childcare and dependent-care systems;

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Amendment 170Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4


4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal

4. Points out the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies; calls,

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policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

nonetheless, on the Member States and the Commission, in response to the health crisis, to boost public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

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Amendment 171France Jamet, Elena Lizzi, Dominique Bilde, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4



4. Budgetary stability should not be detrimental to indispensable public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

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Amendment 172Abir Al-Sahlani, Dragoș PîslaruMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4



4. Points out the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies, budgetary stability should be promoted while encouraging public investment;

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4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal

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policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

stability should however temporarily not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems;

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Amendment 174Helmut GeukingMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Calls on the Commission to meet international legal obligations in relation to children’s rights that Member States (as well as the EU as a whole for some of them) are committed to upholding; calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, calls for using opportunities in the 2021-2027 MFF for investing in children and funds to be employed to develop the potential added value of the EU Child Guarantee when combating poverty as well as harmful negative trends with regard to demographic change in Europe; demands to use soft law initiatives encouraging and incentivising Member States (through peer pressure rather than obligations) to establish European and national action plans to ensure children’s access to the five key social rights (access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition); asks for protection of families and children via the immediate introduction of a 25/25 European child maintenance allowance, an essential and long overdue measure with a view to implementing the Child Guarantee. This additional child maintenance payment must not be offset against any other benefits and would be demonstrably the largest economic development project of all time, since families would pump the additional money they receive into the economy, thereby benefiting all

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Europeans either directly or indirectly;

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Amendment 175Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Points out that, while focussing on social inclusion and poverty, the European Semester still lacks an agenda to monitor and address the increase of inequalities in Europe, urges therefore the Commission, to better assess the distributional impact of public policies and the imbalances in terms of income and wealth distribution, also through individual in-depth review (IDR) reports if these imbalances are detected, as a way to link economic coordination with employment and social performance; calls on the Commission to study which should be the most accurate indicators of economic inequality (from among the Gini index, Palma indexes, Theil index, wage share, ratio of minimum wage to GDP per capita or to average wage, etc.), and to monitor the evolution of inequalities;

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Amendment 176Sara SkyttedalMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Calls on the Member States to make their tax schemes and social security scheme more efficient with a view to create incentives to work; Emphasises the importance of tax systems that are fair

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and easy to abide with; Reiterates that tight labour law and too generous benefit systems hampers the level of employment and in the long run results in unsustainable cost increases for Member States; calls on the Member States to make the necessary economic reforms to create a thriving business climate and increase productivity growth; Recalls that our social welfare is built on thriving businesses and well-functioning national economies;

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Amendment 177Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupKatrin LangensiepenMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Welcomes that during the COVID-19 pandemic, many Member States have taken extraordinary measures to prevent and address homelessness by stopping evictions and providing emergency housing; urges Member States to provide sustainable, proactive and reactive solutions in order to eradicate homelessness by 2030; urges the Commission and the Member States to collect data on homelessness and mainstream homelessness in all relevant policies;

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Amendment 178Margarita de la Pisa CarriónMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


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safeguarding industry as a whole, along with potential jobs, by paying special attention to SMEs and the self-employed;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and to make investments with a view to strengthening social welfare systems, providing full protection against poverty, ensuring stable and quality employment and protecting employees and the self-employed from the risk of unemployment and loss of income; considers it necessary, moreover, to step up support for businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis, with a view to maintaining employment levels and upholding health and safety standards in the workplace; calls for investments within the framework of Next Generation EU to be fully in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member

5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; insists that the

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States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

recovery plan must contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, implementing our growth strategy as set out in the Green Compact, and fulfilling the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights; calls on the Member States to make full use of the potential offered by the general escape clause to support companies which are in difficulty and lack liquidity, particularly SMEs; safeguard the jobs, wages and working conditions of European workers; and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause; strongly regrets that the social development process in Europe has come to a standstill, which should not be a reason to orientate Europe as a welfare state, because stronger welfare states would cement poverty in Europe; demands as Europe’s objective that the social development process should now be accelerated so that people can lead an independent, self-determined life;

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5. Takes note of Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan, and calls for its budget to be centred around the Member States’ most pressing healthcare and socio-economic needs, with climate-neutrality objectives being postponed; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; regrets however that significant imbalance exist between the green and digital transitions on one hand and education, social and healthcare infrastructure on the other; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the

5. Calls for a more ambitious Next Generation EU and EU’s recovery plan;

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Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

stresses that, without own resources, the recovery fund is basically a debt instrument, as it is guaranteed by future budgets; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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Amendment 185Dennis Radtke, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 5



5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems, without endeavouring fiscal sustainability and remaining committed to respect the Stability and Growth Pact; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; Calls on the Member States to view funding under this instrument as a great opportunity to finance the necessary reforms, while bearing in mind that these funds must be returned over the next 10 years and thus considering investments in terms of their

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effectiveness, sustainability and returns;

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Amendment 187Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, France JametMotion for a resolutionParagraph 5



5. Is of the opinion that the financing model of the Next Generation EU proposal exceeds the powers transferred to the EU; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare states;

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5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and invest in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective, equitable and stronger welfare states;

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5a. Calls on Member States to ensure that no one is left behind in the Covid-19 crisis by supporting vulnerable groups in informal economy who lost their income as well as unemployed, particularly women and single parents by creating fair minimum wages and binding pay transparency measures;

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Amendment 190Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Stefania Zambelli, Elena Lizzi, France JametMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6


6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR); stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension;

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6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the European Recovery Plan in order to ensure social fairness, social cohesion and prosperity for all; is concerned that in the current crisis welfare systems are experiencing

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unprecedented pressure and that related public expenditure will exponentially increase; stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension strengthening welfare systems and investing in social security, healthcare, education, housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups in order to combat the social impact of the crisis;

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6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the European Recovery Plan; stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan and MFF must have a strong social dimension, particularly by investing in stable social security systems, healthcare, education, housing, employment, culture, justice and adequate and accessible public social services with the objective of combating the social impact of the crisis and definitively tackling poverty eradication;

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6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights(EPSR) and its role as compass for a process leading to renewed socio-economic convergence and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension and ensure that none is left behind and support transition to European green and digital transformation;

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6. Notes that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) could be a guideline for Member States when fuelling their recovery; stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong future-looking dimension, creating a prosperous Europe for coming generations;

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Amendment 195Abir Al-SahlaniMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6


6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR); stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment

6. Stresses the importance of respecting Member State competence as enshrined in the Treaty, especially with regard to the European Pillar of Social

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effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension;

Rights (EPSR); stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan should stimulate economic growth on the single market;

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6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR); stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension aimed at protecting all citizens from poverty and social exclusion;

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Amendment 197Andrea BocskorMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6



6. Stresses that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) is a political declaration without legal binding force and that the principle of subsidiarity shall be respected; stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension;

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Amendment 198Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6

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6. Stresses that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) is a political declaration without legal binding force and that the principle of subsidiarity shall be respected; stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension;

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6. Stresses the importance of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR); stresses that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension, guaranteeing human dignity in every case;

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6a. Emphasises that fostering social policies that support and provide incentives as regards the needs of families is a priority in terms of achieving maximum wealth in society, at both material and human level;

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Amendment 201Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Stefania Zambelli, France Jamet, Elena LizziMotion for a resolutionParagraph 7


7. Welcomes the Commission’s SURE proposal as an emergency measure in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and calls on the Member States to reach a swift agreement to allow its urgent implementation;

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7. Welcomes the Commission’s SURE proposal as an emergency measure in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and calls on the Member States to reach a swift agreement to allow its urgent implementation; recalls however that SURE is of temporary nature and will terminate once the COVID-19 pandemic is over; invites therefore the Commission to propose a permanent special instrument outside the MFF ceilings, to be activated – upon request of Member States – in case of any unexpected crisis that led to a steady rise in expenditure for short-time work schemes and similar measures;

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7. Welcomes the Commission’s SURE proposal as an emergency measure in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and calls on the Member States to reach a swift agreement to allow its urgent implementation and, as a result, to increase the chances of companies obtaining the liquidity necessary for resuming economic activity and safeguarding jobs;

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7. Welcomes the Commission’s SURE proposal as an emergency measure to offer financial support with regard to EU Member States efforts to adapt or extend (to self-employed workers) their short-time work schemes in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and calls on the Member States to reach a swift agreement to allow its urgent implementation;

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7. Welcomes the Commission’s SURE proposal as an emergency measure in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and calls on the Member States to make us of it in an effective way; Takes note of the temporary nature of the instrument and

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welcomes the sunset clause;

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Amendment 206Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 7 a (new)


7a. Underlines the Commission’s commitment to mobilising the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in response to the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on employment; calls therefore on the Member States to rapidly submit to the Commission applications for funding to support European workers who have lost their jobs as a result of COVID-19 in their retraining, requalification and reintegration into the labour market;

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7a. Calls on the Member States to provide preventive restructuring and second-chance schemes to enable honest debtors with financial problems to become solvent again and prevent insolvency;

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens;

8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens; stresses that we need to strengthen the strategic capacity of the EU by making sure that this time the money will not disappear from Europe through outsourcing; demands to make sure that companies receiving investment through EU instruments need to meet clear benchmarks so that only companies that adhere to social standards including good and family-friendly employment practices, that have just salaries, sound finances and protect the environment are eligible for this support;

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens; demands that funds and resources be directed to projects and beneficiaries that comply with our Treaty-based fundamental values and that recipient firms protect their workers and ensure fair working conditions, pay their fair share of taxes, and refrain from paying out dividends or offering share buy-back schemes aimed at remunerating shareholders;

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Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8



8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens; and that companies using public financial support will protect workers, ensure fair working conditions, pay their fair share of taxes, and refrain from paying out bonuses to management or dividends to shareholders; companies refusing to negotiate with the trade unions should not receive public resources or financial assistance;

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens; Member States should furthermore ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings that respect the applicable collective agreements. Member States should ensure that recipient undertakings refrain from making share buy backs or pay dividends to shareholders and bonuses to executives;

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Amendment 212Marianne Vind, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings that respect the applicable collective agreements and refrain from making share buy backs or paying dividends to shareholders or bonuses to executives, and that these undertakings are not registered in tax havens;

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens and that recipient firms refrain from buying back shares or paying dividends to shareholders and bonuses to managers;

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Amendment 214Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8



8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in the countries listed in the Annex 1 of the Council conclusions on the revised EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes; 1a

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__________________1a Council conclusions (6129/20) on the revised EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes of 18 February 2020

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to bear in mind, when granting financial assistance, the issue of the deliberate registration of undertakings in so-called tax havens, and to be particularly vigilant for cases in which an undertaking does not carry out genuine economic activities in its country of registration;

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8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens outside the European Union;

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9. Calls on the Commission to improve the scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear targets reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR, and to develop mandatory social targets;

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Amendment 218Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Elena Lizzi, Stefania Zambelli, France JametMotion for a resolutionParagraph 9



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9. Stresses that a simple and easily interpreted scoreboard is more likely to have an impact on actual policies; Stresses the importance of ex ante evaluations as well as thorough post evaluations of the National Reform Programmes; Calls on Member States and the Commission to strictly observe and act against all kinds of green-washing with EU-funds;

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Amendment 220Kira Marie Peter-Hansenon behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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9. Calls on the Commission to improve the social scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR, and to develop mandatory social targets and to develop a taxonomy for social sustainability integrating the social aspects of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors;

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9. Emphasises the central role of the Social Scoreboard in the European Semester; calls on the Commission to improve the scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear targets reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR, and to develop mandatory social targets;

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9. Calls on the Commission to improve the scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear targets reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR, and to develop mandatory social targets

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namely on poverty reduction;

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Amendment 223Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 9



9. Calls on the Commission to build upon existing indicators and reinforce the scoreboard by reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR;

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9. Calls on the Commission to improve the scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear targets reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR, and to develop mandatory social targets set out in CSRs;

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9. Calls on the Commission to improve the scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear targets reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR;

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9. Calls on the Commission to improve the scoreboard by integrating further indicators and clear targets reflecting all 20 principles of the EPSR, and to develop social targets;

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Amendment 227Jordi CañasMotion for a resolutionParagraph 9 a (new)


9a. Is concerned about the unfold impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the supply chains in European strategic sectors, which is resulting in demand disruptions and unprecedented job losses that risk of negatively affecting the European labour market in the long-term;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective

10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective

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and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies and implement employment retention measures as well as to carefully design and promote flexible work arrangements with gradual reduction of weekly working hours and job sharing with full wage compensation to prevent unemployment, and in particular to invest broadly in education, training and life-long learning and especially in the upskilling and reskilling of workers and employees across our Union as ways to support economic recovery and social cohesion; stresses the need to strengthen the capacities for all people to enable them to benefit from change at work, to strengthen the institutions of work to ensure adequate protection for all workers, and to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all; equally stresses the critical role of international labour standards in advancing these goals;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; Calls on the Commission to open a public debate on the possible need to design an EU unemployment reinsurance scheme, to evaluate the benefits of the Youth Guarantee to date and, on the basis of this evaluation, to consider proposing a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in

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effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment, particularly among sections of the population left unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in order to help young people, persons with disabilities and people facing discrimination to enter the labour market;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee with a special focus on quality job offers; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies and make full use of existing and new EU funding instruments in order to prevent long-term unemployment, create new employment opportunities through public investment and employment programs, and strengthen the role of public employment services;

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10. Is concerned about the increased 10. Is concerned about the increased

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rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

rate of unemployment and the associated rise of poverty and divergences of living standards, which will especially affect youth, women1a and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment, especially in those regions which suffer significant demographic disadvantages, such as depopulated or sparsely populated regions and rural areas;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee that guarantees quality standards at European level, with specific provisions and clear objectives to reach those furthest from the labour market excluding unpaid internships; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies, namely through the better targeted use of existing and future funding instruments, such as the European Social Fund, to tackle and prevent long-term unemployment;

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Amendment 234Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Emmanouil FragkosMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10



10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a more effective Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to invest adequately in active, effective, bespoke labour-market policies that make it possible for workers to improve their skills and/or acquire new ones, and that promote dual training systems and lifelong learning, in order to improve workers’ employability and prevent long-term unemployment;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment which have affected all forms of work, especially youth and precarious employment; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective labour market policies and economic reforms to prevent long-term unemployment;

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Amendment 236Guido Reil, France Jamet, Stefania Zambelli, Nicolaus Fest, Elena LizziMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10



10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; rejects the proposal of a European Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme because such a scheme does not solve the structural national or regional labour market problems that are of a permanent nature and are based on wrong policies; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

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Amendment 237Dennis Radtke, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut,

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Antonius Manders, Romana TomcMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10



10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to elaborate on the possibility of proposing a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee with high-quality offers of work, training and education; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme for EMU countries and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

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10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low-skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemployment;

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10a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to prioritise the fight against youth unemployment, particularly

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in the context of the European ‘Next Generation EU’ recovery; to make full use of financial instruments such as the Youth Guarantee and European programmes such as Erasmus +; and to take appropriate measures to tackle youth unemployment and improve the employability of young people;

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10a. Notes with great concern the high level of youth unemployment in a number of Member States and the fragility of young workers’ employment contracts, particularly in sectors seriously impacted by the COVID-19, such as the tourism and hospitality industries; calls on the Member States and the Commission to make the fight against youth unemployment a priority by, among others, fostering youth employability and tackling job polarisation;

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10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not worsen the position of those groups furthest from the labour market, such as informal carers, people with long-term illnesses, disabilities, health problems or complex chronic diseases, migrants and refugees, and

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people from ethnic and religious minorities;

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Amendment 244Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 a (new)


10a. Points out the need to fight ageism in labour markets, including by raising awareness of Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, and by securing access to life-long learning opportunities through customised courses and trainings;

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10a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to tailor education and training systems so that they better meet the needs of the labour market to facilitate a smooth transition between the two; calls, therefore, for businesses to be more involved in the design and implementation of such systems;

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11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining;

11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners , the strengthening of workers’ and trade union rights, as well as collective bargaining and workers’ participation, as fundamental tools for democracy and inclusion; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen social dialogue at all levels, collective bargaining and the involvement of workers in company matters, to promote collective bargaining as a precondition to public procurement as well as to ensure that social partners are fully involved in policymaking, including the European Semester;

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11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining; Calls on the Commission to promote the use of ESF+ for capacity building of social partners with the aim of strengthening collective bargaining in Europe; Calls on Member States to consult and involve national social partners in law making that is of relevance to them;

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11. Calls on the Member States to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining in the interests of their citizens;

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11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires more direct involvement of citizens in decision-making processes, a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of citizens and the social partners in order to strengthen the transparency and democratic quality of decision-making processes, social dialogue and collective bargaining;

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11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue at all levels and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen trade union density, social dialogue and civil society participation and to extend collective bargaining coverage in order to ensure a democratic and socially just recovery;

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Amendment 251Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 11



11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners;

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11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and

11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of social partners authorised for that purpose by each

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Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining;

Member State;

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11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining, flexible sectoral agreements and company-by-company arrangements;

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Amendment 254Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana TomcMotion for a resolutionParagraph 11



11. Stresses that the successful implementation of the EU Recovery Plan requires a proper social dialogue at all levels and effective involvement of the social partners; calls on the Commission and Member States to support capacity building of the social partners in order to strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining;

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11a. Calls for no reduction in funding for programmes focused on cohesion and well-being such as the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+);

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum

12. Notes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls for adequate minimum wage levels to be set in Member States well above the

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wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

poverty threshold through collective agreements or through national law where applicable; Stresses the need for a clear distinction between labour markets with existing statutory minimum wages and those where wage levels are established exclusively by collective agreements; Stresses that any initiative must not harm the autonomy of social partners and wage-setting in collective-bargaining systems; stresses that a framework must not require implementation of instruments that makes collective agreements universally applicable;

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12. Takes note of the Commission’s second-phase consultation of the social partners on a framework for the analysis of minimum wages in the EU, and on compliance with the subsidiarity principle as regards the setting of those minimum wages;

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second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law in line with national traditions and with due respect for the autonomy of national social partners and well-functioning collective bargaining models; calls for a coordinated approach at EU level in order to avoid unhealthy labour cost competition and increase upward social convergence for all;

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12. Takes account of the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; Calls on the Member States to guarantee decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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Amendment 261Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, Stefania Zambelli, Elena Lizzi, France JametMotion for a resolutionParagraph 12


12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social

12. Encourages the Member States to ensure that employed people receive a

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partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

wage that allows them a decent life in their country; recalls in this regard that any decision on setting minimum wages is a Member State’s prerogative;

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12. Stresses the importance of ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring

12. Stresses the importance of ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present an EU directive on minimum wages in order to combat social dumping and eliminate in-work poverty, abuse and discrimination by ensuring decent living wages above the relative poverty threshold for all workers, to reinforce collective agreements or the national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers and, in any case, pensions that are higher than the relative poverty threshold;

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Amendment 265Abir Al-SahlaniMotion for a resolutionParagraph 12


12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or

12. Takes note of the Commission´s second phase consultation on a European framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to respect the principle of subsidiarity as enshrined in the treaties when proposing labour market and social policies;

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through national law; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers in line with national traditions and law and with due respect for the autonomy of national social partners and well-functioning collective bargaining models; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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Amendment 267Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 12



12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to ensure upward social convergence and eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law, in line with national traditions; calls for EU-level

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safeguards for decent old-age pensions for all workers;

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements or through national law and to promote collective bargaining, and by combatting the gender and ethnic pay gap; calls for EU-level promotion of adequate old-age pensions for all workers;

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12. Welcomes the Commission’s second phase consultation of the social partners on an EU framework for minimum wages; calls on the Commission to present a European framework for minimum, national, adequate wages to eliminate in-work poverty by ensuring decent living wages above the poverty threshold for all workers through collective agreements, flexible sectoral agreements or company-by-company arrangements; calls for EU-level safeguards for decent old-age

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pensions for all workers;

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12a. Notes with concern the inadequacy of access to social protection systems and the lack of such access for non-standard and self-employed workers; calls on the Member States to take measures to remedy these problems, in particular by following the Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed; welcomes, once again, the adoption of this recommendation as a first measure and the Commission’s commitment to strengthening social protection systems in Europe, but stresses the need to make universal access to social protection a reality, especially in the current difficult situation;

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12a. Recalls that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) recognises the need for workers to earn a living wage, as does the International Labour Organisation Constitution (1919), and that all human rights declarations agree that

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remuneration should be sufficient to support a family; stresses that wages should enable workers to meet their needs and those of their families and that every worker in the Union should receive a living wage, asks the Commission to study how to identify what a living wage could encompass and how it should be measured, which could serve as a reference tool for social partners;

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Amendment 272Sara SkyttedalMotion for a resolutionParagraph 12 a (new)


12a. Reiterates that Member States are primary responsible for improving social developments; Notes that wages are important to fair working conditions and for a thriving social market economy; Believes that strengthened collective bargaining is the best way to promote decent wages within the EU; Calls, in this regard, on the Commission to promote collective bargaining through for example coordination of mutual learning and analyses with a view to identify barriers to social dialogue within the EU;

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12a. Calls for work on adequate minimum income to be accelerated and guidance issued in the form of an EU framework directive on adequate minimum income (incl. reference

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budgets) to identify the level of social benefits necessary to ensure people are able to retain a dignified life;

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Amendment 274Klára Dobrev, Alicia Homs Ginel, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionParagraph 12 b (new)


12b. Calls for the EU-level promotion of adequate old-age pensions for all workers; highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old-age pensions shall be granted to all; acknowledges the challenges faced by Member States to strengthen the sustainability of pension systems, but stresses the importance of safeguarding solidarity in pension systems; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems which provide an adequate retirement income well above the poverty threshold; believes that pension system reforms should focus among other aspects on the effective retirement age and reflect labour market trends, birth rates, the health and wealth situation, working conditions and the economic dependency ratio; considers that these reforms shall also take account of the situation of millions of workers in Europe, particularly women, young people and the self-employed, suffering insecure, atypical employment, periods of involuntary unemployment and reduced working time;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a legal EU framework similar to the Californian ‘AB5’-law to establish a test on the employment status of independent contractors; Stresses that an EU framework of such kind must not lead to any new types of employment status but exclusively function as a test of employment status and to combat false self-employment; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen coverage for social agents for collective bargaining, flexible sectoral agreements or company-by-company arrangements, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for

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platform workers and non-standard workers where clear, simple guidelines are set on price setting, contract conditions, ownership of means of work, and differences between business activities and those of service providers;

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13. Calls on the Member States to propose legal instruments to ensure and regulate decent working conditions for all workers, especially in the new employment relationships that are emerging at present;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for

13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, combat the improper use of precarious and non-standard contracts, particularly zero-hour contracts and cases of bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the

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platform workers and non-standard workers;

Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the working conditions of non-standard workers and to present a European regulatory framework aimed at strengthening and ensuring decent working conditions, rights and access to social protection for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to present an assessment of the working and employment conditions of essential workers, identifying the sources of their precariousness and to propose legal instruments to ensure sufficient working hours and decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers,

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strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

Union; calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments where Community legislation is absent and necessary to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices and consider non-legislative instruments to support Member States in improving their social protection; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on

13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments where Community legislation is absent and necessary to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end

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subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices and consider non-legislative instruments to support Member States in improving their social protection; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers and adjust the rules on competition to enable platform workers to take part in collective bargaining;

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Amendment 284Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 13


13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve

13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for

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social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

platform workers, non-standard workers and workers in precarious forms of employment;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure adequate work hours decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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Amendment 286Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, France Jamet, Elena Lizzi, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionParagraph 13


13. Asks the Commission to propose legal instruments to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European directive on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard

13. Calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage; ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Member States to ensure that platform workers and non-standard workers work under decent working conditions;

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workers;

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13. Asks the Commission to propose solutions to ensure decent working conditions for all workers, strengthen collective bargaining coverage, ban zero-hour contracts, end bogus self-employment, set strict limits on subcontracting practices, and improve social protection standards; calls on the Commission to present a European framework on decent working conditions for platform workers and non-standard workers;

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Amendment 288Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara GemmaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 13 a (new)


13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States swiftly to adopt all necessary measures to combat the scourge of precarious employment; takes the view that penalties should be adopted more rapidly and effectively in cases of discrimination and abuse against workers, ensuring proper compliance with the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union; stresses the need to step up inspections so that workers subject to temporary or flexible contractual arrangements may tangibly benefit from the same protection as all other workers; considers that the use of open-ended employment contracts should

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also be encouraged through binding measures and specific legislative intervention aimed at discouraging the use of fixed-term contracts;

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Amendment 289Dennis Radtke, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Cindy FranssenMotion for a resolutionParagraph 13 a (new)


13a. Is concerned about the working and living conditions of seasonal workers and other cross-border workers in the low-wage sector; calls for an EU-wide subcontractor liability in certain sectors like agriculture and meat industry, especially in the case of on-site work contracts, and clear rules on subcontracting practices in general;

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Amendment 290Dennis RadtkeMotion for a resolutionParagraph 13 b (new)


13b. Acknowledges the crucial role of European carers during the pandemic; calls for a European carers’ strategy to ensure fair labour mobility in this sector and improve working conditions for carers;

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Amendment 291Guido Reil, Stefania Zambelli, Nicolaus Fest, France Jamet, Elena LizziMotion for a resolutionParagraph 14

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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14. Considers that the recent pandemic has shown the importance of digital solutions, particularly telework and the need to establish guidelines and regulations at European level; believes that telework offers opportunities such as better work-life balance, reduced CO2 emissions related to the daily commute, and enhanced employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and may serve as a tool to tackle rural depopulation; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to regulate telework conditions across the EU and ensure decent working conditions, including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave

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and the right to disconnect; and the right to disconnect; calls for account to be taken of the situation of parents with young children, single parents and informal carers providing continuous care to dependent relatives, as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that these groups have had the greatest difficulty in reconciling work and family life in connection with teleworking;

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14. Underlines the importance to help working parents find child-care solutions in situation where one parent is a healthcare professional, caregiver, member of the armed forces or the police; points out that the other parent should be entitled to working from home or at least working part-time to take care of the children; calls for an EU teleworking agenda to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect; calls on the Commission and Member States in strong cooperation with social partners to

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propose a directive on work-related stress and in this regard to require all companies to form a company policy towards work-related stress;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect; calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of location-less jobs, which can prevent depopulation of rural areas in the European Union;

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Amendment 297Monica Semedo, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Samira Rafaela, Dragoș PîslaruMotion for a resolutionParagraph 14



14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect, taking into account the special circumstances regarding tax and social security coordination of frontier workers teleworking;

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Amendment 298Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana Toom

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14. Calls on the Member States to cooperate on how to reach decent working conditions for teleworkers;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave, work-life balance and the right to disconnect;

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on behalf of the Greens/EFA GroupMotion for a resolutionParagraph 14



14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave, work-life balance and the right to disconnect;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, based on business-level agreements in which decent working conditions are guaranteed, including, among other things, respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a legislative framework to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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14. Calls for an EU teleworking agenda, including a proposal to ensure decent working conditions including respect for working hours, leave and the right to disconnect;

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Amendment 306Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Miriam Lexmann, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 14 a (new)


14a. Pays attention to the fact that flexible working arrangements and tele-working also play an important role in preserving jobs and production and are one of the key factors in supporting better work-life balance;

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Amendment 307Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Emmanouil Fragkos

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 14 a (new)


14a. Calls for an updated EU insularity strategy, in order to promote harmonious development and allow the provision of remedies for the islands’ permanent natural and demographic handicaps, while allowing them for transition to future centres of remote working and prosperous living;

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15. Asks the Commission to put forward a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number;

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15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the portability of rights and ensure fair and just working conditions for mobile, cross-border and seasonal workers in the EU; calls on the Member States to commit fully to the digitalisation of public services in order to facilitate fair labour mobility, particularly with regard to the coordination of social security systems; therefore asks the Commission to put forward a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number;

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15. Calls on the Commission to promptly introduce a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number; believes that a European Social Security Number has a strong potential of establishing a control mechanism for both individuals as relevant authorities to secure that social security is paid in accordance to the obligations and to combat social fraud;

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forward a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number;

decent working conditions of posted and cross-border workers should be guaranteed; asks the Commission to put forward a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number;

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15. Asks the Commission to put forward a proposal for a digital EU Social Security Number to facilitate fair labour mobility;

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Amendment 314Marianne VindMotion for a resolutionParagraph 15 a (new)


15a. Believes that every worker must have access to a full overview of who their employers are and their salary- and working rights, either in accordance to the sectorial collective agreement or national legislation where applicable; believes that this information should be available for labour inspectorates to control that employers live up to their responsibilities; believes this could take form in a special ID-card for all workers which has proven effective to combat social dumping in some Member States;

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Durá Ferrandis, Brando Benifei, Elisabetta Gualmini, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Gabriele BischoffMotion for a resolutionParagraph 16


16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that reduces inequalities, promotes fairness and provides incentives for labour market participation;

16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; points out that high levels of inequality reduce economic output and the potential for sustainable development; calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle inequalities and fight discrimination; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that reduces inequalities, promotes fairness and provides incentives for labour market participation; stresses that investment in education and skills, as well as better designed tax and benefit systems are key policy tools for reducing inequality and promoting equal opportunities;

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16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that reduces inequalities, promotes fairness and provides incentives for labour market participation; Therefore, taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources where it will have a less harmful effect on inclusive growth and at the same time ensure the full alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the

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climate and environmental objectives as defined in the European Green Deal;

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16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that reduces inequalities, promotes fairness, protects families by promoting a work-life balance and provides incentives for labour market participation;

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16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; considers that the Member States should design their national tax and benefit systems in a way that reduces inequalities, promotes fairness and provides incentives for labour market participation;

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16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that reduces inequalities and discrimination, promotes fairness and provides incentives for labour market participation;

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16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that promote education, fairness and provides incentives for labour market participation;

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Amendment 321Abir Al-Sahlani, Monica SemedoMotion for a resolutionParagraph 16



16. Is concerned about the limited social mobility that hinder labour mobility and the realisation of a well-functioning single market; Stresses the need to improve opportunities for mobility responding to labour market shortages in Member States;

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16 a. Is concerned about growing discrimination and racism in Europe; calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen the implementation of anti-discrimination legislation, policy, and practice, to end structural discrimination against racialised minorities in access to employment and in the workplace and promote positive narratives of diversity;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard as rapidly as possible, considering the enormous impact of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; stresses, moreover, the need for the Commission and the Member States to collect better and more harmonised data on the number of homeless people in Europe, as this constitutes the basis of any effective public policy;

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Amendment 325Guido Reil, Nicolaus Fest, France Jamet, Elena Lizzi, Stefania ZambelliMotion for a resolutionParagraph 17



17. Notes that poverty is still unacceptably high; stresses that child poverty has many different causes and that relevant issues such as healthcare, education, childcare, nutrition and housing fall within the competence and responsibility of the Member States; encourages the Member States to tackle child poverty as a priority; points out that the rise of homelessness has many different causes and that an efficient fight against homelessness requires measures in different fields such as health care, labour market policy, protection of women against domestic violence, EU freedom of movement and asylum and

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migration policy;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020 building on the 3 pillar approach of the Council recommendation of 2013 on investing in children, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, as well as the post 2020 EU Roma Strategic Framework with concrete objectives and national funding monitored through the European Semester, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a

17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy with a designated poverty reduction target, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, which provide a social

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framework in this regard; protection floor and safety net for those in need and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

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17. In the context of a European rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, calls on the Commission to present in 2020 an EU child guarantee, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, a long-term post-2020 EU Disability strategy, a renewed EU Roma Integration Strategy, and to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a directive in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies by adopting the ‘Housing First’ principle, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a

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framework in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee as soon as possible, a comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on

17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on

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national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting an EU framework directive in this regard;

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17. Calls on the Commission to present a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;

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17a. Highlights the importance of the automatic stabilisation dimension of welfare systems to absorb social shock waves caused by external effects such as recessions; calls therefore on the Member States to introduce policies to re-establish employment security by providing proactive protection, including in the case of dismissals; calls also on the Member States, in view of ILO Recommendation No 202, which defines social protection

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floors, to ensure and increase investment in social protection systems in order to guarantee their performance in tackling and preventing poverty and inequalities while ensuring their sustainability;

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17a. Calls on the Commission to come up with directives that could inspire national legislation to shape policy to promote family cohesion so as to foster an ideal environment within which children can develop in perfect conditions, and where families are given the resources required to bring about better cohesion, thereby protecting and safeguarding disadvantaged children;

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17a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put forward specific proposals to ensure a just transition in terms of improving the energy efficiency of housing and to adequately address the problem of energy poverty in relation to the objectives and principles of the Green Compact;

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Amendment 339Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 17 a (new)


17a. Believes that reforms to social protections systems by the Member States must aim to facilitate labour market participation for those who can work by making work pay; stresses in this regard that income should be targeted at those most in need;

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Amendment 340Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 17 b (new)


17b. Believes that in order to maintain and increase global competitiveness, the labour market regulatory framework in Member States needs to be clear, simple and flexible while maintaining high labour standards;

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, and urges their swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities;

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Amendment 342Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi Cañas, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 18



18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, including a male-female wage equality index; urges the swift adoption of these measures in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities; calls on the Member States and the Commission to support entrepreneurship among women and facilitate access to financing for them; calls on the Member States to unblock the negotiations on the Women on Boards Directive in the Council;

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, and urges their swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities; Believes the proposal is essential to tackle the gender pay gap and the following causes of pension gap; Calls on Member States in strong corporation with national social partners to address the gender gap challenge in pay and pensions;

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Amendment 344Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Véronique Trillet-LenoirMotion for a resolutionParagraph 18

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, and urges their swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities; further stresses the need for gender budgeting as well as for the monitoring of this spending and gender mainstreaming across all budgetary, policy and legislative proposals, following its commitments in the Gender Equality Strategy;

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce measures to bridge the pay gap and the associated gender pension gap, notably by guaranteeing pay transparency; considers that other measures should include better adjustment of the assessment during maternity and parental leave and adequate inclusion of this period in pension entitlements;

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employers that violate the right to equal pay, and urges their swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities;

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, and urges their swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities and discrimination in the labour market;

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce pay transparency measures, and urges their swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities;

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18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce binding pay transparency measures, and urges their

18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to introduce pay transparency measures, and urges their swift adoption in

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swift adoption in order to avoid further gender-based inequalities;

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18a. Recalls that in the EU, workplace discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, disability, ethnic or racial origin, religion or belief, or sexual orientation, is banned and that everyone is entitled to equal treatment in recruitment, working conditions, promotion, pay, access to training and occupational pensions; calls on the Commission to present a strategy to prevent labour market segregation of ethnic minorities as well as to present a Communication on guidelines and standards for discrimination-free recruitment policies for Member States and employers, including recommendations for the adoption of equality plans at company level and in sectoral collective agreements and the implementation of diversity task forces in the workplace, including tackling stereotypes, prejudice and negative attitudes, preventing discrimination in recruitment, promotion, pay and access to training; highlights that these equality action plans should be also used to promote ethnic and cultural diversity at the workplace, to develop internal regulations against racism, related discrimination and harassment in the workplace, to monitor and review recruitment, progression and retention of workforce by equality strand in order to identify direct or indirect discriminatory practices and to adopt corrective measures to reduce inequality in each of

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these areas and, to this effect, collect equality data in respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;

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Amendment 351Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonMotion for a resolutionParagraph 18 a (new)


18a. Emphasises and strongly support the aim to strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women; underlines that pay transparency is crucial in counteracting unfair wage differentials and discrimination; calls on the Commission to ensure that a binding EU legislation in relation to gender pay transparency, fully respects the autonomy of national social partners and contractual freedom of social partners in particular in those Member States where pay is also a responsibility of the social partners;

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19. Calls for accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care services, including for the elderly and people with disabilities;

19. Calls for accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care services, including for the elderly and people with disabilities; calls, in this regard, on the Member States to swiftly and fully implement the Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers;

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19. Calls for accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care and social services, including for the elderly and people with disabilities to facilitate women’s participation in the labour market; calls for the development of an EU framework for care services to set minimum standards and quality guidelines;

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19. Calls for accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care services, including for the elderly and people with disabilities and the promotion of independent living;

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19. Calls for accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care services, including for the elderly and

19. Calls on Member States to provide accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care services,

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people with disabilities; including for the elderly and people with disabilities;

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19. Calls for the introduction by the Member States of accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care services, including for the elderly and people with disabilities;

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19. Calls for accessible and affordable quality childcare and early education services, as well as short- and long-term care and social services, including for the elderly and people with disabilities;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy that is fully consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with a view to its full and effective implementation; points out that the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the living standards of people with disabilities and that even before this crisis some 100 million people with disabilities in the European Union were still being deprived of their basic human rights and prevented on a daily basis from leading an independent life; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take the necessary measures to mobilise essential investment and resources in order to ensure full protection of the economic, social and cultural rights of people with disabilities, in accordance with the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy, including concrete measures to take into account the needs of persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD); calls on the Commission and the Member States to

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step up efforts towards the further inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market by removing barriers with the opportunities that digital work offers for their inclusion and creating incentives for their employment;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy; notes that the guiding principles underlying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, such as full and effective participation and inclusion in society, equal opportunities and accessibility, must be fully applied at both EU and national level;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy based on consultations of persons with disabilities and their representative family members or organisations and to take crisis-mitigation measures in line with the UN CRPD in order to protect them and to ensure their equal and non-

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discriminatory access to services;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy; Calls on the Commission to present a strong and comprehensive legal framework to secure full accessibility for persons with disabilities to the labour market;

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20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 EU Disability Strategy which respects disability in all its forms so as to respond in a dignified manner to safeguard people’s lives, health and social inclusion;

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Amendment 365Monica Semedo, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Samira Rafaela, Dragoș Pîslaru, Abir Al-Sahlani, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 20



20. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive and long-term post-2020 EU Disability Strategy which addresses accessibility to goods and

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services as well as to leisure activities, such as sports;

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society;

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21. Is concerned about the stagnating share of early school leavers, especially amongst marginalised groups, and the increasing share of underperforming pupils; stresses that gaps in basic numeracy, literacy and digital skills are severe impediments to meaningful participation in society and the labour market; calls on the Member States to guarantee that high quality, accessible and inclusive education, training and life-long learning are a right for everyone, and to ensure high-quality basic qualifications and vocational education and training with tailored support, especially for the low-qualified and the most marginalised groups in society

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supported by substantial public investment; stresses that educational outcomes are negatively affected by social exclusion, discrimination, stereotyping, poverty and segregation, which must also be addressed; calls on the Commission to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the driving factors behind early school leaving, including social aspects, and present a proposal to tackle the problem;

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to invest in quality, accessible education and training, strengthening requalification and retraining measures, in particular the acquisition of digital skills, and to promote lifelong learning; stresses that matching qualifications with skills on the one hand and job opportunities on the other is a prerequisite for the creation of a competitive European labour market and that this should be achieved by facilitating closer cooperation of education systems with businesses, for example by promoting learning, work experience and lifelong learning;

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most disadvantaged groups in society; points out, furthermore, that account should be taken of the educational freedom parents want for their children and of the child’s best interests; points out that these centres provide education that does not segregate children according to their disability, but treats them in an excellent manner in line with their educational needs;

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic and digital skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society; calls on the European Commission for an ambitious Digital Education Plan underlining the key role of the digital skills and life-long learning in order to adapt workforce to changing labour markets requirements;

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society; calls for the accelerated recognition of professional qualifications in the EU and the acceleration of procedures for applying for recognition of professional qualifications in order to prevent youth unemployment;

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility, inclusiveness and future-proof character of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society; calls on the Member States to make the most of digital solutions and AI in the field of education, taking into account the rapid development of technology and future labour market needs.

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21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and

21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and

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inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society;

inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society with a specific focus on early school leaving which was aggravated by the pandemic;

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21. Calls on the Member States to guarantee that high-quality, accessible and inclusive education, training and lifelong learning are a right for everyone, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the low-qualified people and the most marginalised groups in society;

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21a. Calls on the Commission to develop a political strategy to replace Europe 2020 which aims to eradicate poverty, bringing together key instruments such as the European Green Deal, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Semester with a longer-term vision of an economy of wellbeing and the sustainability of our environment and social models, in line with the UN Sustainable Development

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Goals (SDGs);

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22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements of the EU labour market and of the ecological and digital transition;

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22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements of the EU labour market and of the ecological and digital transition; Stresses the urgent need to establish a skills-guarantee in line with the principles of the youth guarantee; believes that all Europeans should be guaranteed to receive good quality upskilling and reskilling opportunities within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education; agrees that a strong focus on digital skills are necessary;

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22. Welcomes the Updated Skills Agenda for Europe, which provides the tools to meet the skills requirements of the EU labour market and to support the green and digital transition; welcomes the Pact for Skills announcement and stresses that its works should have a forward-looking action plan, with a particular focus on young people, long-term unemployed persons, victims of gender violence, people with disabilities and other groups at risk of discrimination;

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Amendment 379Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Miriam Lexmann, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 22



22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements of the EU labour market and of the ecological and digital transition; underlines that supporting adequate skills with emphasis on digital skills will improve the productivity and resilience of the labour force easing the ecological and digital transition towards a greener and smarter economy;

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22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements of the EU labour market and of the ecological and digital transition and to address digitalisation, automatisation, skills shortages and mismatches and digital exclusion;

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22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements and future challenges of the EU labour market and of the ecological and digital transition;

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22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements of the EU labour market, the society and of the ecological and digital transition;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 22 a (new)


22a. Highlights that qualifications and certified competences provide added value to the workers, improving their positions in the labour market and can be transferred in labour market transitions; calls for public policy on skills to be oriented to certification and validation of qualifications and competences; stresses that skills based compensation systems should be established in companies accessing public funds for upskilling workers and in agreement with workers representatives, as this system would ensure that there is a return in that public investment;

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22a. Stresses the opportunities that the digital transition may offer to companies, SMEs and start-ups, as well as for new business models, to foster employment growth and new employment positions; calls on the Commission for a coordinated EU initiative to ensure that workers who experience new forms of work, in particular platform workers, have access to a social protection system and are guaranteed all their social rights, regardless of their employment status, and to extend collective agreement coverage to platform workers;

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Amendment 385Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dragoș Pîslaru, Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Jordi

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Cañas, Monica Semedo, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Yana ToomMotion for a resolutionParagraph 22 a (new)


22a. Stresses that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in sustainable and inclusive development, economic growth and job creation in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their support for SMEs and their workers in the resumption of economic activity and in the transition towards a more digital and greener economy;

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22a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the necessary investment in infrastructure to guarantee broadband access in all European regions, in particular in rural areas and the regions covered by Article 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

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Amendment 387Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 23


23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; calls on the Commission to present a new

23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; calls on the Commission to present a new

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Strategic Framework for Health and Safety, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive on mental well-being at the workplace, and an EU mental health strategy;

Strategic Framework for Health and Safety, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive on mental well-being at the workplace, and an EU mental health strategy; calls for the role of the EU-OSHA to be strengthened to promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union; stresses that investments in occupational health and safety improve job quality and the wellbeing of workers and contribute to the productivity and competitiveness of the European economy;

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23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; calls on the Commission to present a new Strategic Framework for Health and Safety, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive on mental well-being at the workplace, and an EU mental health strategy;

23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; Calls for an urgent revision of the Biological Agents Directive 2000/54/EC with the purpose to adapt it to global pandemics and other extraordinary circumstances in order to secure the full protection of workers against the risks of exposure; calls on the Commission to present as soon as possible a new Strategic Framework for Health and Safety post-2020, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive on mental well-being at the workplace and an EU mental health strategy;

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Amendment 389Guido Reil, Stefania Zambelli, France Jamet, Nicolaus Fest, Elena LizziMotion for a resolutionParagraph 23

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23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers;

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23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; calls on the Commission to protect all workers in the workplace and to present a new Strategic Framework for Health and Safety, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive on mental well-being at the workplace, and an EU mental health strategy;

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23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; calls on the Commission to present a new Strategic Framework for Health and Safety, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive

23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the emergence of new kinds of employment relationships; urges the Commission to draw up recommendations on health and safety and on emotional and social relations, addressing all the disorders

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on mental well-being at the workplace, and an EU mental health strategy;

caused by these circumstances, in particular emotional, employment-related and educational disorders;

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24. Calls for the creation of a European Health Union, calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all;

24. Calls for the creation of a European Health Union, the stress-testing of EU healthcare systems, minimum standards for quality healthcare, a European Health Response Mechanism, as well as strengthened EU health agencies and civil protection capacities, calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all; welcomes the shift from cost saving to performance orientation and health outcomes with regard to healthcare in the European Semester; calls for the development of common indicators and methodologies to assess health inequalities and the performance of healthcare systems;

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24. Calls for the creation of a European Health Union, calls on the Member States to ensure high-quality, people-centred and accessible healthcare, including efficient and well-resourced preventative and health-promoting approaches that are

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available and affordable for all; calls on the European Commission to step up its action on tackling inequalities in health between and within EU Member States;

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Amendment 394Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 24



24. Calls for the creation of a European Health Union based on the principles of solidarity, strategic autonomy and cooperation, placing public health considerations at the core of the definition and implementation of all Union policies and activities, as enshrined in the Treaty, with systematic health impact assessment of all relevant policies;

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24. Calls for the creation of a European Health Union, calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all; calls for uniform framework conditions so that, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States create equal quality standards and ensure free access for all citizens;

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24. Calls for health to be given a more prominent role in EU policies, fostering interaction and the exchange of good practices among Member States and ensuring access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all;

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24. Recalls the importance of the principle of subsidiarity in health care policy and the fact that health care is a national competence; emphasises the need to advance the directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare.

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24. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all;

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24. calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all;

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24a. Reiterates the importance of the rule of law – including independent and efficient justice systems, quality public administrations and public procurement, and robust anti-corruption frameworks – as the basis for a sound business environment, functioning labour markets and the proper use of EU funds; stresses that the assessment of the rule of law and the effectiveness of the justice system should thus continue to be included in the European Semester; calls on the Member States to ratify the revised European Social Charter;

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24a. Calls on the Commission to present a communication on guidelines and standards for discrimination-free

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recruitment policies for Member States and employers, including recommendations for the adoption of equality plans at company level and in sectoral collective agreements and the implementation of diversity taskforces in the workplace, including tackling stereotypes, prejudice and negative attitudes, preventing discrimination in recruitment, promotion, pay and access to training;

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Amendment 402Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 24 a (new)


24a. Highlights the need to address the social, economic and environmental determinants of health; considers, in this regard, that the European Green Deal brings opportunities for diseases prevention, in line with the “One Health” approach recognising the interconnection between human health, animal health and the environment and that implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights would contribute to tackle the social gradient in health and reduce health inequalities;

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Amendment 403Dennis Radtke, Cindy Franssen, Miriam Lexmann, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Loucas Fourlas, Sara Skyttedal, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonius Manders, Romana Tomc, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 24 a (new)


24a. Calls on the Member States to actively promote the development of the

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circular and social economy, foster social innovation, social enterprises and strengthen their sustainability, and encourage those forms of work which create quality job opportunities;

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24a. Calls on the Member States to protect the health of the elderly, providing them with hospital treatment and healthcare and avoiding any form of age-based discrimination;

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Amendment 405Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 24 b (new)


24b. Calls on the Commission to adopt a common set of health determinants to monitor health inequalities by age, sex, socio-economic status and geographic location and establish a methodology for auditing the health situation in the Member States, with a view to identifying and prioritising areas in need of improvement and increased funding; considers that the Commission should evaluate the effectiveness of measures in order to reduce health inequalities resulting from policies covering social, economic and environmental risk factors;

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Amendment 406Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 24 c (new)


24c. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all;

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