European Parliament
2019 - 2024
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
22/09/2021
AMENDMENTS: 32
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Employment and social policies of the euro area 2021
Motion for a resolution PE693.654 - 2021/2062(INI)
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Amendment A
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 12 GREENS, 13 S&D, 14 EPP, 15 EPP, 16
EPP, 21 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
A.
whereas the crisis has had
an
A.
whereas the
Covid-19 pandemic
uneven impact on social groups, sectors
crisis has had
and will most likely continue
and regions; whereas the most vulnerable
to have a significant but disproportionate
have been hit hardest;
impact on
different Member States social
groups, sectors and regions
, and is leading
to an increase of poverty level across the
EU; whereas the most vulnerable have
been hit hardest;
whereas the crisis has
had a devastating effect on different
vulnerable groups and has posed an
unprecedented challenge on the
workforce providing elderly care; whereas
women, when compared to men, as well as
young people, low-skilled workers,
migrants, persons with disabilities, people
from disadvantaged background, older
people those with temporary contracts or
in other non-standard forms of
employment, but also the self-employed,
have been disproportionately affected;
whereas some companies have been
severely impacted, in particular our SMEs
and micro enterprises;
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Amendment B
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 23 S&D, 25 EPP, 29 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
B.
whereas
unequal societies create a
B.
whereas
the increase in
climate of
competition, stress and
inequalities within European societies
disillusionment that leads to all members
during the COVID 19 crisis has
of society, not just the deprived, suffering
accelerated dangerous social trends,
from reduced levels of wellbeing;
which can create a climate of
division,
stress and disillusionment that leads to all
members of society, not just the deprived,
suffering from reduced levels of wellbeing;
whereas, the reduction of inequalities is a
crucial prerequisite for achieving
sustainability and wellbeing for all, due to
their detrimental impact on the overall
performance of societies across key
wellbeing indicators such as mental and
physical health, trust in democratic
institutions, as well as on social peace and
security; 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 D
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 30 EPP, 33 GREENS, 34 S&D
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
D.
whereas young people have
D.
whereas young people have
experienced the sharpest decline in
experienced the sharpest decline in
employment15 ; whereas workers with
employment15
as well as a loss of
precarious employment conditions have
opportunity due to lack of training or
been particularly exposed to job losses
internship opportunities; whereas
in some
because of the pandemic;
Member States workers with precarious
employment conditions have been
particularly exposed to job losses because
of the pandemic
and had suffered from a
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lack of social protection;
whereas more
investment is needed in affordable,
accessible, inclusive and high-quality
vocational education and training (VET),
in order for everyone to have the right
competences and qualifications, including
those needed for the green and digital
transitions; whereas one of the main
priorities is to avoid another ‘lost
generation’ of young people; whereas
policies that increase inequalities between
generations affect the sustainability of our
welfare system as well as our
democracies;
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https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/nb/publi
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/nb/publi
cations/report/2021/covid-19-implications-
cations/report/2021/covid-19-implications-
for-employment-and-working-life
for-employment-and-working-life
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Amendment E
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 39 S&D, 42 EPP, 43 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
E.
whereas
permanent short-time
E.
whereas short-time working
working
systems that can be activated in a
schemes that can be activated in a crisis
crisis and that allow for the structural
and that allow for the structural adjustment
adjustment of economies and human
of economies and human resources will be
resources will be critical;
critical;
whereas the strong involvement of
social partners would prevent unforeseen
exclusion in relation to eligibility;
whereas, these job retention schemes
continued to cushion developments in the
labour market, covering an estimated
5.6% of the labour force in February
2021, up from around 5% in October
2020 in response to the latest lockdown
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measures1a;
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https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-
bulletin/html/eb202103.en.html
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Amendment E a
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 57 S&D, 58 S&D
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
E a.
whereas the pandemic
significantly demonstrated the importance
of integrated care with the focus on
delivery of quality services across the life-
course cycle, and special attention to
child, disabled, vulnerable and elderly
care; whereas women carried on most of
the unpaid work, despite men sharing the
housework more than before1a (women
dedicated 18.4 hours per week on cooking
and housework, compared to 12.1 hours
for men, while before the pandemic,
women spent 15.8 hours and men 6.8
hours on these tasks); whereas staff
shortages in health and care sectors that
some Member States already faced before
the pandemic1b, due to a lack of
investments and/or lack of anticipation of
demographic change and that might have
increased due also to the enormous
pressure of work and mental stress due to
pandemic1c; whereas social partners in
health and social services are calling for a
number of improvements in delivering
health and social care to ensure the
resilience and preparedness1d;
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1a https://eige.europa.eu/covid-19-and-
gender-equality/unpaid-care-and-
housework
1b https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-
detail/-/publication/22189434-395d-11eb-
b27b-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
1c https://www.fes.de/en/politik-fuer-
europa/on-the-corona-frontline
1d
https://www.epsu.org/sites/default/files/art
icle/files/Position%20of%20EPSU%20on
%20lessons%20learnt_final.pdf
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Amendment F
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 45 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
F.
whereas, regarding the social
F.
whereas, regarding the social
dimension of the RRF, the Regulation
dimension of the RRF, the Regulation
establishes the general objective of
establishes the general objective of
promoting the Union´s economic, social
promoting the Union´s economic, social
and territorial cohesion by mitigating the
and territorial cohesion by
improving
social and economic impact of the crisis
, in
resilience, crisis preparedness, adjustment
particular on women due to the
capacity and growth potential of the
increasing care burden unevenly shared
Member States, by mitigating the social
by gender and segregated and precarious
and economic impact of the crisis, by
labour market participation, by
contributing to the implementation of the
contributing to the implementation of the
EPSR and to upward social convergence,
EPSR and to upward social convergence,
restoring and promoting sustainable
and by fostering high quality employment
growth and by fostering high quality
creation;
employment creation;
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Amendment F a
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
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Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 20 RENEW, 53 LEFT
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
F a.
whereas global challenges such as
digitalisation and the fight against climate
change, regardless the COVID-19 crisis,
persist and require a just transition so as
to leave no one behind; whereas climate
change, global warming and loss of
biodiversity are exponentially accelerating
according to the latest report of The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC); whereas climate
breakdown and extreme weather events
consequences are being felt more
intensely and more frequently than before
by European citizens and workers;
whereas 2030 decarbonisation targets
have been raised to reach carbon-
neutrality by 2050; whereas increased
mitigation and adaptation efforts would
require profound transformation of the
European and national economies and
labour markets;
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Amendment 1
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 59 GREENS, 61 RENEW, 62 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
1.
Recalls that according to the
1.
Recalls that, according to the
treaties the Union shall work for the
treaties
, the Union shall work for the
sustainable development of Europe based
sustainable development of Europe based
on balanced economic growth and price
on balanced economic growth and price
stability, a highly competitive social
stability, a highly competitive social
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market economy aiming at full
market economy aiming at full
employment and social progress, a high
employment
, healthy and safe working
level of protection and improvement of the
environments and conditions and social
quality of the environment, the promotion
progress, a high level of protection and
of scientific and technological progress,
improvement of the quality of the
combating social exclusion and
environment, the promotion of scientific
discrimination, and promoting social
and technological progress, combating
justice and protection, equality between
poverty and inequalities, social exclusion
women and men, solidarity between
and discrimination, and promoting
up-
generations and protection of the rights of
ward social convergence, social justice
the child; insists that these goals must be
and protection, equality between women
the overarching priorities for the EU’s
and men, solidarity between generations
long-term sustainable growth strategy in
and protection of the rights of the child
and
line with the UN Sustainable Development
persons with disabilities; insists that these
Goals (SDGs), the EPSR, the Green Deal,
goals must be the overarching priorities for
and underpin Member States’ recovery and
the EU’s long-term sustainable growth
resilience plans;
strategy in line with the UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), the EPSR, the
Green Deal, and underpin Member States’
recovery and resilience plans;
calls on the
Commission to ensure that European
Semester along these goals and strategies,
making the European Semester a truly
comprehensive tool;
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Amendment 2
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 66 RENEW, 67 S&D, 70 EPP, 71 EPP, 72
GREENS, 77 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
2.
Highlights that economic policy
2.
Highlights that economic policy
cannot be analysed from a purely
cannot only be analysed from a purely
macroeconomic perspective focused on
macroeconomic perspective focused on
traditional indicators of growth, debt,
traditional indicators of growth, debt,
deficit and employment rate; insists that
deficit and employment rate
and that it
the
Sustainable Semester must be based on
should address the root causes of long-
an integrated approach
combining
term economic and social imbalances;
economic, social and environmental
insists that the
European Semester must be
policies
that together address structural
based on an integrated approach
giving
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change for social progress, sustainable
equal importance to, economic, social and
development and well-being;
environmental policies
; believes that
climate policies shall be given a
prominent role as well; calls for the
European Semester to ensure
coordination between Member States,
making sure that they go in the same
direction towards a climate neutral and
more digital economy leaving no one
behind as well as addressing structural
change for social progress, sustainable
development and well-being;
stresses the
importance of having in mind the effects
of economic policies in order to avoid
negative social consequences, as well as
negative impacts for social cohesion,
including on many vulnerable groups,
and therefore for our democracies and the
European project;
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Amendment 3
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 73 S&D, 75 GREENS, 76 RENEW, 79 EPP,
80 EPP, 81 EPP, 82 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
3.
Welcomes EU leaders’
3.
Welcomes EU leaders’
commitment to the implementation of the
commitment to the implementation of the
EPSR and to the three new EU headline
EPSR and to the three new EU headline
targets to be achieved by 2030;
warns,
targets to be achieved by 2030; calls on
however, that the ambition remains
the Commission for a timely and rigorous
insufficient;
implementation of the EPRS Action Plan
with concrete steps and achievements and
to make sure that each proposal delivers
and reaches its goal; calls for the
indicators to cover the social risks that
stem from the pandemic crisis on
economy, employment and health and
that green and digital transformation
might induce on people and workers;
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notes that SDGs monitoring and the new
social scoreboard provide a more
comprehensive monitoring of these risks
but without providing clear targets to
measure impact of the EU action;
supports an ambitious agenda of strong,
sustainable and inclusive economic and
social recovery and modernisation that
goes hand in hand with strengthening the
European Social Model, so that all people
benefit from the green and digital
transitions and live in dignity; calls on
Member States to set ambitious national
targets which, taking due account of the
starting position of each country,
constitute an adequate contribution to the
achievement of the European targets;
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Amendment 4
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 85 EPP, 86 RENEW, 87 Rondinelli, 89 The
Left, 93 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
4.
Calls on the Commission to draw
4.
Calls on the Commission to draw
lessons from this crisis and work towards
lessons from this crisis and work towards
the implementation of a
different
the implementation of a better sustainable
sustainable governance architecture in the
governance architecture in the EU
based
EU
; warns against taking the decision to
on solidarity, social justice and
deactivate the general escape clause
based
integration, fair distribution of wealth,
only on an overall assessment of the state
gender equality, high-quality public
of the economy based on quantitative
services, including a public, universal and
criteria,
with the level of economic activity
high quality education system, quality
in the EU compared to pre-crisis levels as
employment and sustainable growth; calls
the key quantitative criterion; is
on the Commission, prior to taking the
concerned that this criterion will not
decision to deactivate the general escape
properly reflect underlying inequalities;
clause
, to consider not only an overall
assessment of the state of the economy
based on quantitative criteria,
but also to
properly reflect underlying inequalities
as
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well as the employment, social and health
situation of affected Member States;
believes that the review of the EU
economic governance framework should
preferably take place prior to the
deactivation of the general escape clause;
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Amendment 5
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 99 RENEW, 102 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
5.
Recalls that
excessive and
5.
Recalls that
certain political
inflexible fiscal
discipline led to health and
choices and fiscal
policies made in the
social systems in
many Member States
wake of the 2008 financial and economic
being
ill-prepared to face the pandemic;
crisis may have led to health and social
stresses
that it is essential to take into
systems in
some Member States being
not
account other criteria, especially those that
enough prepared to face the pandemic;
take into consideration the need for
stresses
additional criteria
are needed,
sustained public, social and environmental
especially those that take into consideration
investment, public sector economic
the need for
sustainable public, social and
activity, and
preventing jeopardising
environmental investment, public
and
social progress towards the implementation
private sector economic activity, and social
of the EPSR in the Member States;
progress towards the implementation of the
believes that merely reaching pre-crisis
EPSR in the Member States; believes that
economic activity levels might not be
merely reaching pre-crisis economic
sufficient to consolidate a sustainable
activity levels might not be sufficient to
recovery;
believes that the Stability and
consolidate a sustainable recovery; stresses
Growth Pact and Euro Plus Pact should
that
the current instruments might not be
be revised before any deactivation of the
enough to overcome risks of economic
general escape clause; stresses that
stagnation, increasing inequalities and
temporary exemptions or different
social and territorial divergence;
treatment regarding country-specific
situations will not be enough to overcome
risks of economic stagnation, increasing
inequalities and social and territorial
divergence;
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Amendment 6
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 104 The Left, 105 S&D, 106 RENEW, 112
GREENS
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
6.
Recalls that the President of the
6.
Notes that COVID-19 pandemic
Commission has committed to placing
has affected the well-being of all
sustainability, social inclusion and citizens’
Europeans, and vulnerable population
well-being at the heart of the EU economic
groups in particular; recalls that the
strategy
; deplores the fact that this is
not
President of the Commission has
reflected in the
Commission’s analysis;
committed to placing sustainability, social
calls on the Commission to integrate social
inclusion and citizens’ well-being at the
and environmental imbalances into its
heart of the EU economic strategy
1a;
analysis in the framework of the Semester;
believes that this is
essential to ensure that
Europe remains the home of the world's
most advanced welfare systems, becomes
the first climate-neutral continent and is a
vibrant hub of innovation and competitive
entrepreneurship; reminds that social,
economic and territorial inequalities
among and within Member States have
deepened in the
last decade; calls on the
Commission to integrate social and
environmental imbalances into its analysis
in the framework of the Semester;
invites
Member States to participate in the review
of the EU fiscal rules in order to
encourage sustainable social and growth-
enhancing investment while maintaining
sustainable public finances and robust
welfare systems;
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Amendment 7
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 117 The Left, 118 RENEW, 120 EPP, 121
S&D
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
7.
Regrets that the Commission
is still
7.
Points out that public social
proposing measures that might put at risk
protection systems are crucial for the fight
the adequacy and sustainability of social
against poverty and inequalities, as well
protection systems in Member States by
as to support inclusive and sustainable
continuing to promote reforms aiming
to
growth; calls on the Commission
to make
shift taxation
from labour to the
sure that any proposed measure supports
environment, especially in a context of
the adequacy and sustainability of social
serious macroeconomic imbalances;
protection systems in Member States
,
warns about the risks of replacing stable
including by continuing to promote
taxes with others from more volatile
reforms aiming
at fair and more
sources; stresses that the EU should first
environmentally friendly taxation; stresses
consolidate the minimum corporate tax of
that the EU should first consolidate the
15 % to avoid tax dumping and ensure
minimum corporate tax of 15 % to avoid
fairness for the middle class and working
tax dumping and ensure fairness for the
people in the EU;
middle class
, low income households and
working people in the EU;
looks forward
to the Commission’s proposal on how to
transpose the international OECD/G20
BEPS agreement into EU law;
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Amendment 7 A
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 74 LEFT, 219 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
7 a.
Acknowledges that access to
essential services, such as water and
energy, are critical to ensure social
inclusion and basic sanitary standards;
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calls on support measures to ensure
inclusive and affordable access to
essential services in the framework of the
EPSR action plan implementation; calls
on the Commission and the Member
States to come up with specific proposals
to adequately address the problem of
energy poverty in the context of our Green
Deal objectives and to assess the energy
markets in order to avoid the negative
effects of rising energy prices on SMEs
competitiveness and on households;
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Amendment 8
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 129 The Left, 131 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
8.
Highlights that well-designed
8.
Highlights that well-designed
labour taxation systems are essential to
labour taxation systems are essential to
ensuring high standards of worker
ensuring high standards of worker
protection against risks and illness, and the
protection against risks and illness, and the
provision of old age pensions; believes that
provision of old age pensions; believes that
tax systems should
focus on taxing high-
tax systems should
be designed in a way
income, and especially high-wealth,
that reduces inequalities, promotes
property, capital income and gains, and
fairness and protects households and
wealth at the same level as labour income
should be balanced in order to make the
in order to make the systems fairer
, to
systems fairer
and more efficient; stresses
reduce inequalities and to significantly
that
public revenue could be used to fund
increase the revenue; stresses that
this
key priorities and help address Member
revenue could be used to fund key
States’ fiscal challenges, and contribute to
priorities and help address Member States’
the long-term sustainability of public
fiscal challenges, and contribute to the
finances, including by strengthening the
long-term sustainability of public finances,
coverage, adequacy of health and social
including by strengthening the coverage,
protection systems for all, and ensuring
adequacy of health and social protection
their long-term funding;
calls on the
systems for all, and ensuring their long-
Commission and the Member States to
term funding;
take real measures to combat tax
avoidance and tax fraud as an important
means of reducing economic inequalities
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and improving the collection of tax
revenue in the Member States;
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Amendment 9
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 134 RENEW, 135 GREENS
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
9.
Highlights the importance of
9.
Highlights the importance of
better
integrating
sustainable well-being in the
integrating
social objectives, social
EU budgetary planning;
progress and well-being
and
sustainability, across all EU policies,
especially in the EU budgetary planning
ensuring coherence of public
expenditures, investments with social and
environmental goals and identifying
potential social impacts of budgeting
choices;
calls on the Commission to
integrate sustainability and wellbeing in
the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy
(ASGS) and in the CSRs and to give
prominence to the social impact of EU
policy measures in its impact assessment;
stresses the importance of strengthening a
comprehensive and integrated framework
within the European semester process,
with a specific attention to the most
vulnerable and marginalised groups of
the society;
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Amendment 10
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 142 S&D, 144 The Left, 146 EPP, 147 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
10.
Is concerned about over-
10.
Is concerned about over-
indebtedness arising from the pandemic
indebtedness arising from the pandemic
and its economic and social consequences,
and its economic and social consequences,
and stresses that people and SMEs have to
and stresses that people and SMEs have to
be protected from being trapped into over-
be protected from being trapped into over-
indebtedness; believes, that regarding non-
indebtedness
and calls for further
performing loans
, it is not credit
improvement of debt advisory and debt
purchasers and credit servicers who
protection services and raising financial
should be supported, but rather it is
awareness; believes, that regarding non-
European SMEs, workers and
civil society;
performing loans
mentioned in the
Commission’s Communication1a it is
European SMEs, workers and
households
who should be supported;
notes that the
RRF offers the opportunity to support the
recovery with additional investment and
reforms on this regard; stresses the
importance of adopting policy tools to
address how low income households
struggling to pay their bills and make
ends meet can survive the pandemic’s
effects and avoid sliding into a poverty
trap;
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https://ec.europa.eu/info/system/files/com-
2021-500_en.pdf
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Amendment 10 A
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 148 RENEW, 149 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
EU sustainable well-being governance
European governance framework 2022
for
framework 2022
sustainability, social inclusion and people
well-being
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Amendment 11
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 154 EPP, 156 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
11.
Believes that, in the context of the
11.
Highlights that the Recovery and
Recovery and Resilience Plans,
Resilience Plans need to fully meet the
skyrocketing public debt levels and the
provisions and targets of the RRF
upcoming reform of the Stability and
Regulation and its objective to advance
Growth Pact and the Semester process,
economic, social and territorial cohesion
Parliament’s proposal for the adoption of a
in the Member States, and put forward the
sustainable well-being and social progress
necessary sustainable and growth
pact making social and sustainable targets
enhancing reforms and investments;
mandatory in order to achieve the UN
believes that, in the context of the
SDGs has become more relevant than ever;
Recovery and Resilience Plans,
skyrocketing public debt levels and the
upcoming reform of the Stability and
Growth Pact and the Semester process,
Parliament’s proposal
1a for the adoption of
a sustainable well-being and social
progress pact making social and
sustainable targets mandatory in order to
achieve the
Green Deal objectives, the
EPSR and the UN SDGs has become more
relevant than ever;
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc
ument/A-9-2020-0233_EN.html
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Amendment 12
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 162 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
12.
Believes that this pact could define
12.
Believes that this pact could define
the sustainable well-being related policy
the sustainable
, well-being related
and
objectives in
an improved fiscal policy
social policy objectives in
a renewed fiscal
framework ensuring that the EU economic
policy framework ensuring that the EU
and fiscal governance would work towards
economic and fiscal governance would
be
the achievement of these objectives; points
viable on the long run and work towards
out that this pact would contain legally
the achievement of these objectives; points
binding provisions under a comprehensive
out that this pact would contain legally
surveillance procedure within a
new
binding provisions under a comprehensive
sustainable well-being governance system;
surveillance procedure within a
renewed
considers that the pact’s fiscal components
sustainability and well-being
inclusive
should comprise a set of provisions which
governance system; considers that the
clearly take account
of qualitative aspects
pact’s fiscal components should comprise a
of fiscal policies, reward
sustainable well-
set of provisions which clearly take
being-oriented investments and reforms,
account qualitative aspects of fiscal
and thus contain incentives for related
policies, reward well-being-oriented
and
action at the national level; points out that
inclusive investments and reforms, and
the sustainable well-being pact should
thus contain incentives for related action at
consider the use of fiscal standards
the national level; points out that the
instead of fiscal rules, committing
sustainable well-being pact should ensure
government spending to the pursuit of
and permit the necessary investments for
sustainability and well-being-related
building a sustainable, innovative,
policy objectives, and set out an effective
inclusive and socially fair society as well
methodology to assess and ensure
the
as sound and sustainable budgetary
sustainability of public finances
over time;
policies and public finances;
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Amendment 13
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 170 Rondinelli, 171 S&D
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
13.
Agrees with European leaders, with
13.
Agrees with European leaders, with
regard to economic and social governance
regard to economic and social governance
of the EU, on the need for a regular
of the EU, on the need for a regular
assessment of progress towards the 2030
assessment of progress towards the 2030
headline targets and upward convergence
headline targets and upward convergence
at the highest political level
1a;
believes
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at the highest political level;
that, within a governance review process,
the Ministers of labour and social policies
and the Ministers of the economy and
finance should be equally involved, in
order to give equal value to economic,
social and employment issues under the
European Semester mechanism; agrees
with the Council that the implementation
of the EPSR will strengthen the Union's
drive towards a digital, green and fair
transition and contribute to achieving
upward social and economic convergence
and addressing the demographic
challenges and that the social dimension,
social dialogue and the active involvement
of social partners have always been at the
core of a highly competitive social market
economy; believes that, for progress on
these matters to be tracked, the Social
Scoreboard has to be renewed, as part of
the policy coordination framework of the
European Semester; and in order to be
adapted to the post-Covid situation as well
as aligned it with the RRF process;
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1a
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press
/press-releases/2021/05/08/the-porto-
declaration/
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Amendment 14
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 173 The Left, 174 S&D, 175 GREENS
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
14.
Welcomes the European social
14.
Welcomes the European social
partners’ joint proposal for an alternative
partners’ joint proposal for an alternative
set of indicators to measure economic,
set of indicators to measure economic,
social and environmental progress,
social and environmental
and climate
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supplementing GDP as welfare
policy progress, supplementing GDP as
measurement for inclusive and sustainable
welfare measurement for inclusive and
growth;
sustainable growth;
believes that the social
scoreboard must integrate additional
indicators fully reflecting inequality
trends and causes, including the evolution
of financial and non-financial profits
compared to the evolution of wages and
private debt; highlights the importance of
taking into account the interests of most
vulnerable and marginalised members of
our society in this process; stresses that
social partners must be involved in the
decision-making process for the initiation
of strategic action in the purpose of
recovery; believes that any action taken in
this regard must not interfere with social
partners' autonomy;
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Amendment 14 A
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 180 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
From protecting to creating
sustainable
From protecting to creating
green, digital
quality jobs: the
role of public investments
and quality jobs: the
need for an
and the care deal
ambitious European social agenda
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Amendment 15
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 184 RENEW, 186 The Left, 190 Rondinelli
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 and 15 b (new)
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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
15.
Acknowledges that the Member
15.
Acknowledges that the Member
States are projected to reach their pre-crisis
States are projected to reach their pre-crisis
level of quarterly output by the end of
level of quarterly output by the end of
2022;
warns that for the recovery to be
2022;
underlines that for the recovery to
sustainable, it is essential that quality jobs
be sustainable, it is essential that quality
are also created for medium- and low-
jobs are also created for medium- and low-
skilled workers and especially for women,
skilled workers and especially for women
as it has been proved that they are essential
and young people, and geographically
for the resilience of our societies and
evenly distributed to avoid imbalances
economies;
between regions, as it has been proved that
they are essential for the resilience of our
societies and economies;
believes that
social partners play a crucial role in
anticipating labour markets’ evolution
and in ensuring smooth transitions for
workers affected by structural changes;
believes that strengthening collective
bargaining structures at all levels are
essential to create quality and sustainable
employment;
15 b.
Welcomes the Commission’s
proposal on strengthening the application
of the principle of equal pay for equal
work or work of equal value between men
and women through pay transparency and
enforcement mechanisms; welcomes the
fact that this proposal introduces binding
pay transparency measures; 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,
urgently, the negotiations on the Women
on Boards Directive in the Council;
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Amendment 15 A
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 185 EPP, 208 RENEW, 217 LEFT
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
15 a.
Stresses that quality education and
a well-educated workforce, together with
a commitment to research and innovation,
is a prerequisite for sustainable recovery
and social cohesion; points out that
medium and low-skilled workers must be
given the possibility to re-skill and up-
skill; insists that sustainable investment in
quality apprenticeship, adult participation
in lifelong learning and employee training
must be a priority; points out that an
inclusive economic recovery will require
sustainable public and private investment
to ensure access to training for the
unemployed and low-qualified people so
as to obtain certified basic skills,
professional skills and key competences
leading to qualifications and career
transitions; highlights in this context the
importance of strengthening EU
education programs, aligning training
and education with the needs of the
society and the economy, supporting
employees and teachers as well as the
importance of investments in digital,
green and social infrastructure; stresses
that implementing the EU skills agenda
for all is critical for tackling skills
shortages; calls on the Commission and
the Member States to maximise their
efforts to invest in affordable, accessible,
inclusive and high-quality vocational
education and training, to reinforce
upskilling and reskilling measures,
including digital and transferable skills,
and to promote lifelong learning to
prepare workers for the needs of the
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labour market affected by the green and
digital transformations; underlines that
the mutual recognition of qualifications is
key for overcoming skills shortages and
skills mismatches;
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Amendment 16
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 198 GREENS, 204 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
16.
Calls on the Commission and the
16.
Calls on the Commission and the
Member States to
agree on a quality job
Member States to
monitor, with a specific
creation
target with a tracker system on
system, the creation
of quality jobs in all
public investments
at all levels, including
sectors, including those created from
a dedicated section on green jobs, digital
public investments
and with a dedicated
jobs
and the gender perspective, and on a
section on green jobs, digital jobs
, also
system of quality and green job creation
taking into account the gender
and non-
conditionalities for companies accessing
discrimination perspective, and
to agree
public funds;
on a system of quality and green job
creation conditionalities for companies
accessing
EU public funds;
calls for close
monitoring of active outreach measures to
ensure equal participation of those
farthest from the labour market in quality
jobs; stresses that access to EU public
funds shall be made conditional to the
respect of workers’ rights and collective
agreements;
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Amendment 17
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 65 Renew, 210 The Left, 211 EPP, 212
Rondinelli, 214 GREENS, 221 EPP
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Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 and 17 a (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
17.
Stresses that if the EU wants to lead
17.
Stresses that if the EU wants to lead
global sustainable recovery, millions of
the global sustainable
and inclusive
well-paying jobs must be created,
recovery
, modernising our economies and
including for medium- and low-skilled
ensuring quality jobs, millions of well-
workers, so that everyone has the
paying jobs must be created, including for
opportunity to contribute to the common
medium- and low-skilled workers,
ensure
European project; insists that more
upward and social and economic
investment is needed in research,
convergence and equal opportunities for
innovation, and zero carbon technologies;
all so that everyone has the
occasion to
contribute to the common European
project; insists that more investment is
needed in
green, digital and social
infrastructures, public services,
education, social services, research,
innovation, and zero carbon technologies
,
taking into consideration the peculiarities
of micro and SMEs, which are key players
in the European economic fabric, in order
to make the most of their innovative
potential and improving SMEs' access to
public and private funding and ensuring
sustainable growth friendly investments;
calls for the social and sustainable
dimensions of the industrial strategy to be
strengthened, with a special focus on
quality employment and on the strategic
value chains in the EU;
17 a.
Is concerned about the serious
social and employment effects of the
COVID-19 crisis, especially for young
people; calls on the Member States and
the Commission to make sure that every
young European has access to education,
training and the labour market; calls on
the Member States and the Commission to
prioritise the fight against youth
unemployment, particularly in the context
of the European ‘Next Generation EU’
recovery; to make full use of financial
instruments such as the Youth Guarantee
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and European programmes such as
Erasmus +; and to take appropriate
measures to tackle youth unemployment
and improve the employability of young
people; highlights also that the new
European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
for displaced workers (EGF) could be
mobilised 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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Amendment 18
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 226 EPP, 229 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
18.
Warns that only country-specific
18.
Underlines that country-specific
recommendations (CSRs) that contribute to
recommendations (CSRs) that contribute to
the social objectives established in the RRF
the social objectives established in the RRF
Regulation
can be taken into account in
Regulation
must be taken into account in
national recovery and resilience plans
national recovery and resilience plans
(NRRPs), and that for NRRPs CSRs have
(NRRPs), and that for NRRPs CSRs have
to be interpreted in a way that contributes
to be interpreted in a way that contributes
to the achievement of the Regulation’s
to the achievement of the Regulation’s
social objectives; demands
a revision of
social objectives
, including economic,
the CSRs in order to ensure coherence
social and territorial cohesion; insists that
between
them and the general and specific
the NRRPs, in line with the RRF
objectives of the RRF Regulation;
Regulation, shall contribute to achieving
the UN SDGs, implementing our growth
strategy as set out in the Green Deal and
fulfilling the principles of the EPSR;
recalls that the 2021 year European
Semester cycle was temporarily adapted to
allow for the launch of the RRF; demands
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the Commission to be more ambitious in
the social dimension and to ensure
coherence between
the CSRs and the
general and specific objectives of the RRF
Regulation;
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Amendment 19
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 240 EPP
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
19.
Points out that according to the
19.
Points out that according to the
RRF Regulation, gender equality has to be
RRF Regulation, gender equality has to be
mainstreamed in the preparation and
mainstreamed in the preparation and
implementation of NRRPs, and that gender
implementation of NRRPs, and that gender
reporting and mainstreaming cannot be
reporting and mainstreaming cannot be
mixed with social tracking and social
mixed with social tracking and social
investments; believes that gender equality
investments; believes that gender equality
deserves its own mainstreaming
deserves its own mainstreaming
methodology in
RRFs, and recalls that the
methodology in
the framework of the
European Institute for Gender Equality
RRF, and recalls that the European
(EIGE) has developed a suitable
Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has
methodology;
developed a suitable methodology;
highlights that according to the RRF
regulation, investment in robust care
infrastructure is also essential in order to
ensure gender equality and the economic
empowerment of women, in order to build
resilient societies, combat precarious
conditions in female-dominated sectors,
boost quality job creation, prevent poverty
and social exclusion, and in order to have
a positive effect on GDP, as it allows more
women to take part in paid work;
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Amendment 19 C
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
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Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 84 GREENS, 140 S&D, 219 RENEW
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
19 c.
Stresses that the investment gap
for affordable housing amounts to EUR
57 billion per year; calls on the
Commission and the Member States to
ensure the provision of sufficient
adequate and affordable social housing to
cover the housing needs of the population
and reduce the overburden housing costs;
calls on the Commission to include this
objective in the Country Specific
Recommendations; calls in this regard for
a reform of the economic governance
framework allowing Member States to
make the green and social public
investments needed, including those
related to the development and
improvement of social, public, affordable
and energy-efficient housing; underlines
that homelessness is one of the most
extreme forms of social exclusion;
welcomes the launch of the European
Platform on Combatting Homelessness
with the ultimate objective of ending
homelessness by 2030; calls on Member
States to adopt ambitious national
strategies, with adequate national and EU
funding, based on the housing first
principle promoting the prevention of
homelessness and providing access to
adequate, safe and affordable housing;
urges the Commission to propose a
comprehensive Antipoverty Strategy;
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Amendment 19 A
Lina Gálvez Muñoz
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Compromise amendment covering Amendment(s): 191 EPP, 193 S&D, 196 EPP, 218 S&D, 220
S&D
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new) and 19 b (new)
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
19 a.
Calls for a European Care
Strategy, with a strong gender dimension,
that takes a holistic and life-long
approach to care while envisaging specific
measures and actions for both formal and
informal carers as well as for unpaid care
work; calls on Member States to examine
and exchange best practice on how best to
support societal groups with particular
care needs as well as best practices on
how to reflect periods spent on care
responsibilities in pension schemes, with a
view to contributing to closing the gender
pension gap; points out that according to
Eurofound the share of long-term-care
workers increased by one third in the last
decade, in sharp contrast to the
persistently low wages paid to these
workers; calls on the Member States to
ensure that care workers receive decent
wages, as currently wages in the long-
term care and other social services are
21% below the average1a; calls on the
Commission and Member States, as stated
in the report on Long Term Care (LTC)
which was prepared by the European
Commission (DG Employment) and the
Social Protection Committee1b, to
implement reforms that “address the
common objectives of ensuring good-
quality long-term care, accessible and
affordable to all, delivered in a financially
sustainable way”; calls for effective active
labour market and work-life balance
policies to further preserve private and
family life, including through the
transposition and implementation of the
Work-Life Balance Directive, as well as a
proposal for a Council recommendation
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on the provision of care;
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1a https://eige.europa.eu/covid-19-and-
gender-equality/unpaid-care-and-
housework
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https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId
=738 Id=en&pubId=8396
19 b.
Highlights that greater investment
in health and social care including
workers’ wages, working conditions and
training is essential to improve
recruitment and retention, and to ensure
adequate staffing levels and needs-
oriented services; calls on the
Commission and the Member States to
ensure that significant amount of
investment from the National Recovery
and Resilience Plans is dedicated to
improve healthcare, including improving
working conditions and staffing levels,
training needs and increasing key
services, reconstructing provision of basic
care and supporting long term care and
other public social services; insists on the
weaknesses identified in the stress tests of
the health and social sector to be
addressed through the NRRPs and the
next EU programme for health
(EU4Health) as well as through ‘CSRs on
these sectors;
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