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Report (2024/2084(INI)) 2025-03-05
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
5.3.2025 A10-0023/2
Amendment 2
Kathleen Funchion
on behalf of The Left Group
Report A10-0023/2025
Maravillas Abadía Jover
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
(2024/2084(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital AE
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| AE. whereas under the new EU economic governance framework, all Member States have to include reforms and investments in their medium-term plans addressing common EU priorities and challenges identified in country-specific recommendations in the context of the European Semester; whereas the common EU priorities include social and economic resilience, including the EPSR; | AE. whereas country-specific recommendations in the context of the European Semester tend to incentivise cuts to social services and social protection instead of promoting the increase of public revenues; whereas from the introduction of the European Semester in 2011 to the year 2018, the Commission recommended 63 times that governments cut spending on healthcare or privatise health services; |
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5.3.2025 A10-0023/3
Amendment 3
Kathleen Funchion
on behalf of The Left Group
Report A10-0023/2025
Maravillas Abadía Jover
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
(2024/2084(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
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| 16a. Regrets that certain EU rules and directives, such as the Non-Performing Loans Directive1a and the EU’s fiscal and state aid rules, have played a role in increasing house prices and homelessness across the EU, as they can often prevent Member States from investing comprehensively in tackling the rising costs of housing and rising homelessness; ______________ 1a Directive (EU) 2021/2167of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2021 on credit servicers and credit purchasers and amending Directives 2008/48/EC and 2014/17/EU (OJ L 438, 8.12.2021, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2021/2167/oj). |
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5.3.2025 A10-0023/4
Amendment 4
Kathleen Funchion
on behalf of The Left Group
Report A10-0023/2025
Maravillas Abadía Jover
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
(2024/2084(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
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| 22. Recognises the unique role of carers in society, and while the definition of care workers is not harmonised across the EU, the long-term care sector employs 6.4 million people across the EU; | 22. Recognises the unique role of carers in society, and while the definition of care workers is not harmonised across the EU, the long-term care sector employs 6.4 million people across the EU; calls on the Member States, therefore, to work towards adequately compensating formal and informal carers; |
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5.3.2025 A10-0023/5
Amendment 5
Kathleen Funchion
on behalf of The Left Group
Report A10-0023/2025
Maravillas Abadía Jover
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
(2024/2084(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
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| 35. Calls on the Commission to conduct competitiveness checks on every new legislative proposal, taking into account the overall impact of EU legislation on companies, as well as on other EU policies and programmes; | 35. Calls on the Commission to conduct social impact assessments for every new legislative proposal, taking into account the overall impact of EU legislation on employment, income, access to and quality of public services, and respect for fundamental rights, as well as on other EU policies and programmes; |
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5.3.2025 A10-0023/6
Amendment 6
Kathleen Funchion
on behalf of The Left Group
Report A10-0023/2025
Maravillas Abadía Jover
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
(2024/2084(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
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| 37. Believes that, in this year of transition, with the implementation of the revised economic governance rules, the Member States should align fiscal responsibility with sustainable and inclusive growth and employment, notes that the involvement of social partners, including in the development of medium-term fiscal structural plans, should be enhanced to contribute to the goals of the new economic governance framework; | 37. Regrets the ever-increasing role of the unelected Commission in the fiscal affairs of the Member States through mechanisms such as the European Semester and revised fiscal rules; believes this centralisation undermines national democracies and damages the ability of people to put trust in political systems to solve their problems; notes that the Commission has engaged in significant overreach through the European Semester process when it comes to public policy areas that legally fall under the competence of the Member States under the TFEU, such as pensions and the provision of healthcare; regrets that the revised economic governance framework fails to enhance social progress and convergence and to foster the ecological transition; regrets further that in order to comply with the revised economic governance rules, governments of Member States have committed in their national fiscal and budgetary plans to reduce public expenditure and to implement structural reforms; deplores that these commitments have already or will in the near future translate into concrete measures deeply affecting the population, such as the reform of the pension system, the reform of the unemployment scheme, lower healthcare reimbursements, and job cuts in public administrations such as public education, leading to the general degradation of public services; warns that these economic policies, aimed at complying with the objectives of the European Semester, will have harmful and long-lasting impacts on the people and on our collective capacity to cope with the ecological crisis, while at the same time failing to achieve the deficit and debt reduction for which they are intended; reiterates that instead of focusing on irrelevant economic indicators and pursuing endless debt and deficit reduction, the EU economic governance should aim at eradicating poverty and inequalities, provide a high level of social protection, high-quality public services, and individual and collective well-being through the fulfilment of the essential needs of all citizens and ecological planning; notes that the involvement of social partners and civil society should be enhanced in the economic governance and the European Semester; insists that the Commission should reinforce its dialogues with the Member States on the implementation of existing recommendations and of the employment guidelines, as well as on current or future policy action to address identified challenges; |
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5.3.2025 A10-0023/7
Amendment 7
Kathleen Funchion
on behalf of The Left Group
Report A10-0023/2025
Maravillas Abadía Jover
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
(2024/2084(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
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| 42. Recognises the cost of living crisis, which has increased the burden on households, and the rising cost of housing, which, in conjunction with high energy costs, is contributing to high levels of energy poverty across the EU; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to comprehensively address the root causes of this crisis by prioritising policies that promote economic resilience, social cohesion, and sustainable development; | 42. Recognises the cost of living crisis, which has increased the burden on households, and the rising cost of housing, which, in conjunction with high energy costs, is contributing to high levels of energy poverty across the EU; emphasises that this is a historic crisis, exacerbated in part by austerity policies implemented by the EU and many Member States; recognises the destructive impact that austerity policies have had, and continue to have on society as a whole; notes that the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has suggested the suspension of fiscal rules for defence investments; condemns the double standard whereby social expenditures continue to be subject to austerity measures; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to comprehensively address the root causes of this crisis by prioritising policies that promote economic resilience, social cohesion, and sustainable development; |
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