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European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

2020/2039(INI)

17.9.2020

AMENDMENTS1 - 140Draft opinionElżbieta Rafalska(PE655.690v02-00)

Reversing demographic trends in EU regions using cohesion policy instruments(2020/2039(INI))

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Amendment 1Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital -A (new)

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-A. whereas demographic changes have economic, social and environmental consequences, particularly in rural areas, and do not affect all countries and regions in a uniform manner; whereas youth and women are notably among those leaving these areas1a; whereas isolated areas and areas to which access is limited are most exposed to demographic decline, and such imbalances represent major challenges both for territories suffering from depopulation and for those experiencing a population influx; whereas this phenomenon is causing a shrinking working age population and aging population and may result in the risk of full disappearance of municipalities and villages across EU regions;

_________________1a Demographic trends in EU regions, European Parliament Research Service, 2019

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Amendment 2Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A


A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments

A. whereas demographic challenges pose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments

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and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas without adequate policy response these pressures might be exacerbated by an overall declining active population and a higher dependency ratio, resulting in a vicious circle of challenges; whereas proper infrastructure, high-quality accessible and affordable public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, and high-quality jobs, adequate housing, transports and broadband connection will play a key role for people in deciding to stay or to move to a particular region; whereas the role of telecare, telemedicine, teleworking and digital education will need to be further explored;

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Amendment 3Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital A


A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

A. whereas the intensity and speed of demographic changes impose considerable economic, social, cultural, educational, fiscal and environmental pressures on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision and maintenance of public services, education, healthcare, social welfare, housing, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas increased productivity, a more inclusive labour market and high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role to improve the quality of life and secure equal job

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opportunities for EU citizens in the most depopulated areas, particularly for persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 4Antonius MandersDraft opinionRecital A



A. whereas the increased life expectancy constitutes an important achievement of social and particularly health systems in the EU, it also puts considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ societies, governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of inclusive public and private services, particularly social welfare, social services and age-friendly infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas affordable high-quality services, especially elderly care, childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded; whereas ageing is also an opportunity to build a silver economy;

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Amendment 5Miriam LexmannDraft opinionRecital A


A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services

A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services,

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and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

infrastructure and state budget; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio as well as expected increase of the number of persons with disabilities; whereas high-quality and geographically and financially available public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities for elderly and persons with disabilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded with the special focus on human dignity;

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Amendment 6Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaDraft opinionRecital A



A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded; whereas it is vital to ensure the general accessibility of products and services for persons with special needs, in accordance with the concept of universal design;

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Amendment 7Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinion

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A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure, as well as on the environment; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be properly assessed before it is expanded, in order to ensure quality of treatment, patients safety, accessibility to all groups and data protection;

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Amendment 8Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Stéphane Bijoux, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital A



A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly health, social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population, a higher dependency ratio and a growing prevalence of chronic diseases; whereas accessible, affordable and resilient high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and

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the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

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Amendment 9Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionRecital A


A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care, day-care facilities will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

A. whereas demographic changes, including those linked to immigration, impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care, day-care facilities will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

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Amendment 10José Manuel FernandesDraft opinionRecital A


A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key

A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic, social and territorial pressure on Member States’ governments and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly social welfare, eldercare and social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public and private services, especially childcare, long-term

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role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

care and day-care facilities, will play a key role, and the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded;

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Amendment 11Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital A



A. whereas demographic changes impose considerable economic and social pressure on Member States’ and on local and regional authorities in terms of the provision of public services, particularly pensions, social welfare, social services and infrastructure; whereas these pressures will be exacerbated by a declining active population, the absence of long-term social policies and a higher dependency ratio; whereas high-quality public services, especially health care, childcare, long-term care and day-care facilities, will play a key role;

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Amendment 12Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas the importance of ambitious investments and jobs is greater in regions that are suffering depopulation in order to boost their economic recovery and long-term competitiveness in the Single Market and thus reverse negative demographic trends; whereas cohesion policy instruments need to address the multiple factors influencing the decision whether or not to stay in a particular

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area, which are linked to the lack of attractiveness, such as poor infrastructure, limited access to public services, low connectivity rates and the lack of education and job opportunities;

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Amendment 13Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas the natural change of the Union population has been negative since 20121a; whereas the median age in the EU-28 has risen from 38.3 years in 2001 to 43.1 years in2018; whereas the working population has been shrinking since 2010 and the projections suggest a continuous decline1b; whereas the working population is likely to decrease by 18 % in the next 50 years1c;

_________________1a Eurostat, Population and population change statistics, July 2020. 1b European Parliamentary Research Service, Demographic outlook of the European Union, March 2020, p. 3.1c European Commission, Report on the impact of demographic change, June 2020, p. 15.

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Amendment 14Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital A a (new)


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Aa. whereas EU demographic trends are affected by the freedom of movement of persons; whereas inequalities in the EU may force workers to pursue job opportunities in a different Member State; whereas there is increasing depopulation in some areas due to migration to cities and/or other regions or Member States;

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Amendment 15Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana CicurelDraft opinionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas Europeans can enjoy a longer and healthier life, whereas life expectancy at birth has increased by about ten years both for men and women over the last five decades; whereas it should reach, in 2070, 86,1 for men and 90,3 for women1a;

_________________1a European Commission report on the impact of demographic change

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Amendment 16Anne SanderDraft opinionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas rural regions are particularly sensitive to these demographic changes;

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Amendment 17Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes

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Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A b (new)


Ab. whereas the total dependency ratio was 54.6 % in the EU-28 in 2018 and the old-age dependency ratio 30.5 %; whereas the old-age dependency ratio is projected to reach 62 % by 20302a; whereas there are an estimated 100 million persons with disabilities in the EU; whereas about a quarter of the Union population experienced long-standing limitations due to health problems in 2018; whereas almost half of the elderly population reported difficulties with at least one personal care or household activity in 20142b;

_________________2a European Parliamentary Research Service, Demographic outlook of the European Union. March 2020, pp. 5-6.2b Eurostat, Functional and activity limitations statistics, November 2019.

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Amendment 18Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital A b (new)


Ab. whereas a long-standing focus on competitiveness and market-based approaches has proven unable to solve divergence between Member States and regions, causing the loss of numerous jobs and reinforcing the de-industrialization of entire regions; whereas only strong public investment can guarantee a truly equal, sustainable

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and just development, including high quality jobs, and ambitious social and environmental objectives;

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Amendment 19Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana CicurelDraft opinionRecital A b (new)


Ab. whereas older people's poverty is likely to be a growing concern as demographic trends continue; whereas in 2018, in the EU-27, 15,5 % of people aged 65 or over were at risk of poverty1b; whereas women are more likely to be hit by poverty in old age;

_________________1b European Commission report on the impact of demographic change

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Amendment 20Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital A b (new)


Ab. whereas negative demographic trends increase the demand for stronger solidarity between generations; whereas the role of telecare and telemedicine will need to be expanded to guarantee access to healthcare in all EU regions;

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Amendment 21Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson

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Draft opinionRecital A c (new)


Ac. whereas women’s life expectancy at birth is 5.5 years higher than men’s3a; whereas women carry disproportionate burden of formal and informal care for children, older people and people with disabilities; whereas one third of women in the age group between 20 and 64 years does not participate in paid work because of family or care responsibilities, in comparison to only 5% of inactive men3b; whereas the prevalence of women among informal carers does not only negatively affect the participation of women in the labour market but also exposes them to economic dependency, poverty and social exclusion; whereas in rural areas, in addition to the significant family and care responsibilities, many women support family businesses in the agricultural sector and carry out additional work that often remains "invisible"3c;

_________________3a European Commission, Report on the impact of demographic change, June 2020, p. 7.3b EIGE, Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance, 2020, p. 79. 3c European Parliamentary Research Service. Demographic outlook of the European Union. March 2020, p. 15.

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Amendment 22Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaDraft opinionRecital A c (new)


Ac. Whereas rural areas and the agri-

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food sector constitute an important element for the social fabric and the achievement of a sustainable EU economy; whereas agricultural workers in rural areas, particularly those suffering from demographic disadvantages, face an exceptional higher risk of poverty and social exclusion;

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Amendment 23Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital A c (new)


Ac. whereas intra-EU inequalities are exacerbated by austerity policies, industrial polarisation and wealth centralisation ;whereas the European Union should adopt genuine social and industrial policies and ambitious long-term measures in order to equally develop all European regions and guarantee upwards social convergence;

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Amendment 24Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana CicurelDraft opinionRecital A c (new)


Ac. whereas demographic change can also present opportunities and new development perspectives through, inter alia, a demand for quality food, rural and ecotourism or through the silver economy and social innovation;

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Amendment 25Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A d (new)


Ad. whereas in the last decade, there has been an increase in the percentage of single-adult households; whereas this increase is particularly significant for households of single adults without children4a; whereas in 2019 the share of women living in a single household was as high as 40 % and more than double the share of men living alone4b;

_________________4a European Commission, The impact of demographic change: Commission Staff Working Document, June 2020, p. 21. 4b European Commission, Report on the impact of demographic change, June 2020, p. 11.

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Amendment 26Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital A d (new)


Ad. whereas in order to address demographic challenges sustainably, the Union should protect and extend the role of public initiative and investment especially in strategic sectors considered too important to be left to the market;

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Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A e (new)


Ae. whereas behind the aggregate data on demographic change, there are notable differences between and within Member States; whereas the demographic decline in some regions aggravates existing inequalities and undermines people’s quality of life; whereas the demographic decline has a greater impact on regions that are already lagging behind;

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Amendment 28Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A f (new)


Af. whereas tackling demographic challenges calls for coordinated action and a comprehensive set of policies, including targeted measures in the areas of employment, social protection, health and occupational safety, education and skills, which take time to formulate and to produce an effect; whereas some negative impacts of demographic change in the most affected regions demand immediate response with support of the Union instruments;

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Amendment 29Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinion

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Recital A g (new)


Ag. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the lack of policy responses to the impact of demographic changes in the EU, such as the lack of adequate housing, quality care facilities and sufficient care and support services; whereas solidarity between generations is crucial for a successful recovery from the crisis and the creation of fairer, inclusive and more resilient societies, where the human rights of all generations are equally protected, where nobody is left behind in the process of the green and digital transition and where basic services are public and accessible to everyone;

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Amendment 30Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A h (new)


Ah. whereas demographic change should not be perceived as a mere threat but rather as a consequence of commendable increased longevity and as a structural change that must be socially sustainable, that must recognize, value and make use of the people’s potential at every age and that will require the involvement of policymakers at all relevant levels and civil society alike;

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Amendment 31Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinion

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Ai. whereas both the free movement of workers as well as internal and external migration will continue to have an impact on the size of the population at Union, national and regional level; whereas migration and brain drain are often triggered by social and economic disparities between countries, both within the Union and between the EU and third countries;

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Amendment 32Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A j (new)


Aj. whereas cohesion policy instruments present the main source of public investment in the EU, accounting for 8.5 % government capital investment in the EU, 41 % at the level of EU-13 and surpassing 50 % in a number of countries5a;

_________________5a European Commission, European Structural and Investment Funds Data, October 2018.

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Amendment 33Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A k (new)


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Ak. whereas discrimination on grounds of gender, religious belief, age, disability or sexual orientation is prohibited and presents a breach of fundamental Union values;

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Amendment 34Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A l (new)


Al. whereas measures and policies tacking demographic changes must by no means undermine individual reproductive rights;

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Amendment 35Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital A m (new)


Am. whereas investments in rights-based, people-centred and evidence-based policies, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, health care and care services and infrastructures, are important elements to tackle demographic challenges;

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Amendment 36Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson

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Draft opinionRecital B


B. whereas it is important for the EU to mainstream demographic issues into all its policies, including by incorporating them in its budget lines;

B. whereas it is important for the Union to identify demographic challenges in all policy fields and to develop strategies to tackle them (demographic mainstreaming), including in the European Semester process; whereas the European Parliament in its 2011 “Resolution on demographic change and its consequences for the cohesion policy” and its 2017 “Resolution on deployment of cohesion policy instruments by regions to address demographic change”, called on the use of all available EU instruments, including cohesion policy funding, to tackle challenges posed by demographic change;

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Amendment 37Antonius MandersDraft opinionRecital B



B. whereas it is important for the EU to mainstream demographic issues into all of its policies, including by incorporating them in its budget lines; whereas the EU has a key role to play in supporting the exchange of good practices at all governance levels and developing guidance and recommendations on ensuring age-friendly environments;

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Amendment 38José Manuel FernandesDraft opinionRecital B


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B. whereas it is important for the EU to mainstream demographic issues into all its policies, including by incorporating them in its budget lines; whereas, pursuant to article 174 TFEU, regions which suffer from severe and permanent demographic handicaps should be paid particular attention in this regard;

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Amendment 39Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionRecital B



B. whereas it is important for the EU to mainstream demographic issues as a priority into all its policies, including by incorporating them in its budget lines, and whereas the idea of using immigration as a solution to these challenges must be the subject of a genuine democratic debate;

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Amendment 40Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital B



B. whereas it is important for the EU to mainstream demographic issues into all its policies, including by incorporating them in its relevant budget lines, and to collect and monitor large-scale reliable statistical data at EU level to develop effective policy solutions;

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Amendment 41Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Abir Al-Sahlani, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital B



B. whereas the demographic situation severely impacts the social, economic and territorial cohesion of the EU; whereas it is important for the EU to mainstream demographic issues into all its policies, including by incorporating them in its budget lines;

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Amendment 42Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital B



B. whereas there is a need for the EU to mainstream demographic issues into all its policies, particularly into industrial and sustainable development policies, including by incorporating them in its long-term priorities and in its budget lines;

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Amendment 43Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas demographic challenges cannot be addressed without a Union’s industrial strategy ensuring public investment, quality jobs, public research and innovation, public education boosting

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equal development and sustainability;

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Amendment 44Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas all policies addressing demographic opportunities and challenges must be evidence-based, people-centred and rights-based and, in particular, must be respectful of individual reproductive rights;

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Amendment 45Miriam LexmannDraft opinionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas it is necessary to invest into research, collection of data and exchange of best practices in order to get the innovative and future-proof solutions to the demographic challenges;

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Amendment 46Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Stéphane Bijoux, Radka MaxováDraft opinionRecital B a (new)


Ba. 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 47Miriam LexmannDraft opinionRecital B b (new)


Bb. whereas the importance of families with children for the sustainability of the entire social system is not properly recognized. Whereas the support to the families including the available childcare infrastructure, help to the families with single parent, families with children with disabilities or an adequate financial benefit for the childcare provided during the maternity and parental leave can contribute to the fight against the negative demographic trends. Whereas a just and adequate translation of the value of the contribution of raising children during the periods of maternity and parental leave into the pension schemes is one of the efficient ways how to appreciate the value of the childcare for the sustainability of the social system;

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Amendment 48Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionRecital C


C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the EU’s regions;

C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains a key challenge for many regions in the Union, in particular as regards long-term unemployment and in-work poverty; whereas young people already had to carry a disproportionate share of burden in the 2008 economic

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and financial crisis; whereas the Union needs sustainable solutions and solidarity between generations to overcome the COVID-19crisis as well as crises in the future;

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Amendment 49Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaDraft opinionRecital C



C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the EU’s regions; whereas structural and investment funds should be used more proactively in order to improve the employability and stability of young and older people in the labour market, with special attention to the most highly depopulated rural and remote areas;

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Amendment 50Antonius MandersDraft opinionRecital C



C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the EU’s regions; whereas the presence of jobs and opportunities, but also of high quality public and private services, improves the quality of life in the regions of the EU, allowing them to counter their depopulation;

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Amendment 51Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionRecital C


C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the regions of the EU;

C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the regions of the EU, and whereas the policy of opening up our markets to unfair competition is partly responsible for the dramatic situation in which they find themselves;

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Amendment 52Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital C



C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the EU; whereas the presence of jobs and opportunities, as well as quality public services, reinforce rural areas and allow to stop their depopulation;

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Amendment 53Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionRecital C



C. whereas the fight against inequality, exclusion and unemployment among young people and older people remains one of the greatest challenges

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facing the EU’s regions; whereas negative demographic change increases the demand for stronger solidarity between generations;

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Amendment 54José Manuel FernandesDraft opinionRecital C



C. whereas the fight against unemployment among young people and older workers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the EU’s regions; whereas youth unemployment rates in the EU have dramatically increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic;

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Amendment 55Miriam LexmannDraft opinionRecital C a (new)


Ca. whereas increasing the inclusiveness of the labour market with regards to the specific needs of some groups like persons with disabilities or older workers that are willing to remain active on the labour market can mitigate the negative development caused by the demographic changes;

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Amendment 56Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionRecital C a (new)


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Ca. whereas employment does not always guarantee an adequate living standard; whereas in-work poverty is significantly rising; whereas work-life balance is still very difficult to achieve; whereas access to family leave and flexible work arrangements are not always properly guaranteed;

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Amendment 57Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital C a (new)


Ca. whereas a fair and sustainable production model focussing on territorial cohesion should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and longstanding expertise at the very core of its development to ensure a democratic functioning;

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Amendment 58José Manuel FernandesDraft opinionRecital C a (new)


Ca. whereas a common demographic policy, within the framework of the Treaty of Lisbon, would be of the utmost importance to revert the current demographic trends, promote territorial, economic and social cohesion and reduce unemployment in the EU;

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Amendment 59

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Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionRecital C b (new)


Cb. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting demographic trends; whereas public response to the pandemic should be driven by ending inequalities and strengthening social and territorial cohesion; whereas subsequent public support measures for private companies, facilitated by temporary flexibilities regarding state aid rules, and massive lay-offs, may increase inequalities between regions and confirm the need for policies guaranteeing quality jobs, both during the recovery and reconstruction phases;

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Amendment 60Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionRecital C b (new)


Cb. whereas gender equality is a fundamental right, a common value of the EU and a necessary condition for achieving the EU objectives of growth, employment and social cohesion; whereas women are more exposed to poverty and social exclusion than men all the more when they are aged over 60;

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Amendment 61Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph -1 (new)


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-1. Calls on the European Commission to develop a European Strategy on Demographic Change that provides for a comprehensive and integrated approach to address demographic challenges and handicaps, as referred in Article 174 TFEU, thereby securing the economy, social inclusion of vulnerable groups and job creation in EU regions;

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Amendment 62Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 1


1. Calls on Member States to use Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to increase the accessibility of public spaces to people with special needs, including persons with disabilities, children and the elderly;

1. Calls on Member States to use Cohesion Fund resources to enhance the attractiveness of areas experiencing severe and permanent demographic disadvantages, and in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to increase the accessibility of public spaces to children, the elderly and people with special needs, including persons with disabilities, in accordance with the European Accessibility Act; highlights the need of ensuring the economic and social integration of workers with disabilities and combating all forms of discrimination to achieve a more inclusive labour market;

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Amendment 63Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionParagraph 1


1. Calls on Member States to use Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to increase the

1. Calls on Member States to use Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to increase the

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accessibility of public spaces to people with special needs, including persons with disabilities, children and the elderly;

accessibility of public spaces to people with special needs, including persons with disabilities, children and the elderly; Emphasises the importance of ensuring a full participation of concerned citizens in the democratic process; Stresses also the importance of the involvement of the relevant NGOs representatives and stakeholders;

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Amendment 64Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1



1. Calls on the Member States to mainstream demographic challenges and to carefully plan the use of Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF, ESF and the future ESF+, to tackle demographic change in a rights-based and socially just manner with a focus on vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, including persons with disabilities, single parents, children and the elderly;

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Amendment 65Antonius MandersDraft opinionParagraph 1



1. Calls on Member States to use Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to improve the quality of life in public spaces for all, especially in the regions of the EU and increase the accessibility of public spaces to people with special needs, including persons with

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disabilities, children and the elderly;

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Amendment 66Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Atidzhe Alieva-VeliDraft opinionParagraph 1



1. Calls on Member States to use Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to increase the accessibility of public spaces to people with special needs, including persons with disabilities, children and the elderly as well as to promote accessible, affordable and resilient healthcare systems within the Union;

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Amendment 67José Manuel FernandesDraft opinionParagraph 1



1. Calls on Member States to use the RRF and the Cohesion Fund resources, in particular the ERDF and the ESF, to promote territorial cohesion and increase the accessibility of public spaces to people with special needs, including persons with disabilities, children and the elderly;

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Amendment 68Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez MuñozDraft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Welcomes the Commission proposal for the REACT-EU instrument that is designed to increase the amount of funding in the 2014-2020 period for the ERDF, ESF and FEAD; is nevertheless deeply concerned that this temporary funding is insufficient to tackle social dimension of the COVID-19 crisis, including the most pressing demographic challenges; calls on the Commission to ensure sufficient flexibility and reduce unnecessary administrative burden in the use of these funds while closely monitoring and reporting on their efficiency and social impact;

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Amendment 69Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)


1a. Considers that EU policies must embrace public investment strategies that promote the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities throughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy; calls on the Commission to promote the use of public investment to create high-quality jobs and achieve ambitious social and environmental goals;

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Amendment 70Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Stéphane BijouxDraft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Calls on the Member States to invest in health prevention and promotion campaigns, infrastructures, early diagnosis and social protection for long term care, in order to address the growing demand and to ensure that everyone has the right to timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality, as enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 71Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Sylvie Brunet, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)


1a. Recognises the prominent role that the cohesion policy and the CAP could play in encouraging and boosting the employability and inclusion of women in rural and remote areas affronted with demographic-related issues and calls on the Member States to better use the relevant funds for that purpose;

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Amendment 72Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaDraft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)


1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that products and services financed by cohesion funds are accessible to persons with special needs, in accordance with the concept of universal design;

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Amendment 73Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Abir Al-Sahlani, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)


1a. Underlines the essential impact the constantly evolving digital technologies have on people’s daily life, thus stresses the need for high-speed broadband and vital and up-to-date technological equipment in schools, hospitals and all other relevant public/private service facilities, including developing effective e-Governance, in order to ensure there are enough opportunities for normal life for the people in rural and remote areas;

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Amendment 74Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 1 b (new)


1b. Highlights the need to support a just transition, and believes that a well-designed Just Transition Mechanism, including an ambitious Just Transition Fund, would be an important tool to facilitate the transition and reach ambitious climate targets while addressing social and territorial impacts;

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Amendment 75Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez MuñozDraft opinionParagraph 1 b (new)

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1b. Calls for a considerable budgetary increase of the ESF+ in the 2021-2027 MFF proposal;

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Amendment 76Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1 c (new)


1c. Stresses the need to tackle the negative impacts of demographic change in a rights-based and socially just manner, in line with principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and with special attention to structural reforms for more inclusive labour market, the creation of quality jobs and job opportunities in less developed areas or regions at risk of depopulation and outermost territories; highlights in this regard the importance of continuous reskilling and upskilling of workers, age-friendly working environments, as well as occupational health and safety to ensure that people can work until they reach the statutory retirement age; stresses the need to promote collective bargaining and increase the collective bargaining coverage to ensure decent working conditions for all;

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Amendment 77Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1 d (new)

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1d. Underlines the need to tackle the age-dependency ratio by reducing long-term unemployment and in-work poverty, as well as unemployment among the youth and the elderly; recalls that universal access to affordable childcare and other care and support services is a precondition for many people, in particular women and single parents, to become or remain economically active and to ensure healthy life-work balance;

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Amendment 78Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1 e (new)


1e. Calls on the Commission to apply gender mainstreaming in all measures and policies related to demographic change, including the upcoming Green Paper on Ageing and Long-term Vision for Rural Areas; reiterates the necessity of closing the gender employment, pay and pension gap; encourages the Member States to use the cohesion funds to improve the level of employment and inclusion of women, especially in less developed and rural areas and with focus on the needs of women returning to the labour market at older age;

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Amendment 79Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1 f (new)

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1f. Stresses that investments in rights-based, people-centred and evidence-based policies, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, health care and care services and infrastructures, are important elements to tackle demographic challenges;

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Amendment 80Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1 g (new)


1g. Calls on the Commission to promote economic and social cohesion and an integral approach to tackling demographic change, so that reversing negative impacts of demographic change in one Member State or region is not to the detriment of other Member States or regions; points to significant differences in absolute values of minimum income and pensions across different regions and types of communities that guarantee dignified life; highlights the importance of fostering social inclusion by partnership with social partners, civil society, regional and local authorities and with local populations in the design and implementation of policies and concrete measures;

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Amendment 81Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 1 h (new)

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1h. Underlines the need for support and counselling services that provide people with a life-cycle perspective and counter structural ageism, especially in employment6a; calls to support the national public employment services and the European Network of Public Employment Services, especially in their efforts to support long-term inactive and older jobseekers;

_________________6a OECD, Demographic Change and Local Development: Shrinkage, Regeneration and Social Dynamics, 2012, p. 14.

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Amendment 82Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez MuñozDraft opinionParagraph 1 i (new)


1i. Calls on the Member States to acknowledge the value of informal care and to improve the social protection and support for informal carers;

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Amendment 83Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez MuñozDraft opinionParagraph 1 j (new)


1j. Calls for a framework directive on long-term care that would lay down fundamental principles and provide

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evidence-based criteria for accessible quality long-term care and support services across the EU and that would also facilitate the implementation of alternative approaches, promoting the transition to person-centred and community based services;

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Amendment 84Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez MuñozDraft opinionParagraph 1 k (new)


1k. Calls on the Commission to strengthen its support to national and local authorities’ migration and inclusion policies, especially through policy coordination, knowledge exchange and financial support; calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve migrants’ access to education and the labour market, especially for female migrants;

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Amendment 85Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 2


2. Calls for the greater involvement of ERDF resources in improving transport and telecommunications infrastructure in areas that have high ageing rates, a high proportion of rural areas, and are facing depopulation;

2. Calls for Member States to use ERDF resources in tackling transport isolation and improving digital and telecommunications infrastructure, particularly broadband and Internet connectivity in rural, peripheral and remote areas that have high ageing rates and are facing brain-drain, which should be accessible to all, in order to build on

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the potential of a green, innovative and digital economy, secure access to quality services and foster the establishment of businesses and people, especially youth, in those areas;

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Amendment 86Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionParagraph 2



2. Calls for the greater involvement of ERDF resources in improving transport and telecommunications infrastructure in areas that have high ageing rates, a high proportion of rural areas, and are facing depopulation, stresses, however, that the logic of an economically integrated zone with the euro as the single currency entails, de facto, the mobility of workers within the European Union.

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2. Calls for the greater involvement of ERDF resources in improving transport and telecommunications infrastructure in areas that have high ageing rates, a high proportion of rural areas, and are facing depopulation in order to improve well-being, avoid medical desertification, enable access to public services as well as increase jobs opportunities.

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Amendment 88

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Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 2



2. Calls on the Member States to make use of ERDF resources to improve the transport and telecommunications infrastructure and support independent living and mobility, especially in areas that have high ageing rates, are less developed and are facing depopulation;

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2. Calls for the greater involvement of RRF and ERDF resources in improving transport and telecommunications infrastructure in areas that have high ageing rates, a high proportion of rural areas, a high level of youth unemployment and are facing depopulation;

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Amendment 90Antonius MandersDraft opinionParagraph 2



2. Calls for the greater involvement of ERDF resources in improving transport and high speed fixed and mobile telecommunications infrastructure in EU regions that have high ageing rates, a high proportion of rural areas, and are facing

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depopulation;

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Amendment 91Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 2



2. Calls on Member States to use ERDF resources in improving public transport and public connectivity infrastructures in areas that have high ageing and/or unemployment rates, and are facing depopulation;

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Amendment 92Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaDraft opinionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Encourages support for infrastructure and development initiatives, social services and the development of education and training establishments in small communities in outlying rural areas struggling with depopulation and ageing;

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Amendment 93Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaDraft opinionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Considers that digital infrastructure and connectivity play an essential role in preventing digital divide,

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isolation and depopulation; stresses in this regard the paramount importance of supporting a more extensive use of work-at-home schemes by companies across the EU, which may serve as a tool to retain businesses, strengthen local communities and tackle rural depopulation; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to regulating minimum and clear standards and conditions for telework across the EU and ensuring decent working conditions;

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Amendment 94Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Stresses that the increase on the life expectancy at birth adds pressure to long-term care services, that were designed in a different demographic context and that currently have to respond to health and care needs of an older society; requests therefore to increase the resources dedicated for that purpose to meet this increase on the needs;

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Amendment 95Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Stéphane Bijoux, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Stresses that the demand for healthcare professionals is likely to rise, while some geographic areas are already experiencing shortages of healthcare workers; Calls on the Member States to tackle these shortages by investing in

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skills and by making healthcare professions more attractive, with a specific focus on rural and remote areas;

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Amendment 96Margarita de la Pisa CarriónDraft opinionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Calls for boosting the relocation of families to rural areas, which means investing in appropriate access routes, educational and health infrastructures, as well as the promotion of social, cultural and sports activities that encourage a healthier quality of life and optimal for children's development, in a more affordable way.

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Amendment 97Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionParagraph 2 b (new)


2b. Expresses its worry about migration flows of European young people from rural to urban areas and to third countries; stresses that for addressing these migration patterns and prevent the decrease of the working age population, it is essential to provide opportunities to young people at home; notes that if this situation is not properly addressed, any potential increase of birth rates will just lead to increase of migration.

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Amendment 98

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Antonius MandersDraft opinionParagraph 3


3. Calls for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among older people;

3. Calls for a greater mobilisation and smart combinations of ESF, national and local resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among older people; calls therefore for accessible and affordable opportunities to learn digital skills in a way that is adapted to the needs of older persons, also by stepping up support for initiatives of senior voluntary experts themselves, for example through the Confederation of European Senior Expert Services (CESES);

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3. Calls on Member States for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among the young, the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as to secure access to digital tools; calls therefore for accessible and affordable opportunities to learn digital skills in a way that is adapted to the needs of the elderly; points out that these initiatives have greater chances of success when they are linked to opportunities of intergenerational exchange;

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Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez MuñozDraft opinionParagraph 3



3. Calls for a greater mobilisation of ESF resources, combined with national and local investment, to effectively counter the digital divide and digital exclusion, especially among older people; stresses the importance of broadening the digital skills programmes to the population beyond the retirement age; calls for mainstreaming demographic challenges into the Just Transition Fund to address, above all, social exclusion, digital divide and energy poverty;

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Amendment 101Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana CicurelDraft opinionParagraph 3



3. Calls for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to tackle social exclusion and material deprivation as well as to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among vulnerable people, remote areas and older people; believes in this sense that digitalisation, robotisation and artificial intelligence could be promoted to improve the autonomy as well as the living and health conditions of older people;

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Amendment 102Miriam LexmannDraft opinionParagraph 3

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3. Calls for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among older people; calls for greater support to flexible ways of working that allow people to better reach the work-life balance or combine their work duties with care duties; notes that the Covid-19 crisis showed that such task is with the appropriate support possible;

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3. Calls for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among older people; calls on the Member States to facilitate socially just digital transition and to assure that all citizens have the right and access to affordable communication infrastructures;

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3. Calls for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially in rural areas and among older people, while acknowledging the importance of the Employment and Social Innovation programme (EaSI) in funding long-term

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care;

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3. Calls for greater mobilisation of ESF resources to effectively counter the digital gap and digital exclusion, especially among older people and the most deprived categories of people, such as poor household families;

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3a. Stresses that, in order to enable young and elderly people to work, study and take an active part in modern society, they must be given the opportunity to acquire at least basic-level digital skills; in addition, good internet access must be provided, as this is indispensable for maintaining contacts and undertaking work, particularly as a result of the Covid pandemic;

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Amendment 107Antonius MandersDraft opinionParagraph 3 a (new)


3a. Calls on the European Commission, with a view to radically

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improve and strengthen the representation of the elderly in the EU law-making process and mirroring the existing EU Youth Parliament, to consider ESF-funding for a 'European Elderly Parliament' of experienced senior volunteers advising EU lawmakers on the impact of EU draft-laws and regulations on the elderly as well as contributing to more knowledge on and support for the EU among seniors;

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Amendment 108Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło, Anna ZalewskaDraft opinionParagraph 3 a (new)


3a. Calls for resources from the cohesion funds to be combined with those of the Member States in order to implement comprehensive measures to improve accessibility and access to social services that represent a response to demographic change;

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Amendment 109Antonius MandersDraft opinionParagraph 3 b (new)


3b. Calls on the Commission to step up its commitments, like via the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme, an important initiative in fostering the Silver Economy in the EU, to enable older and dependant people to live longer at home in their familiar environment, including through the use of home automation, human centred ICT, AI and the continuous exchange of best practices

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across the EU;

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4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting training programmes, entrepreneurship and the silver economy.

4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting up-skilling and re-skilling of citizens to match the labour market's needs, entrepreneurial skills and the silver economy; welcomes in this regard the Updated Skills Agenda for Europe, which may contribute to address the skill workforce shortages in regions lagging behind;

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4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting the creation of high quality jobs in the least developed areas, the reduction of precarious jobs and in work poverty and the elimination of social exclusion;

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Amendment 112

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Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Abir Al-Sahlani, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4



4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting training programmes, entrepreneurship, strengthening research, human capital, the capacity for innovation and the silver economy.

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4. Stresses that the regions and municipalities should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic changes, particularly by promoting territorial cohesion, supporting training programmes, entrepreneurship, SMEs and the silver economy.

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Amendment 114Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 4


4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting training programmes,

4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic challenges, particularly by supporting training programmes, inter-

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entrepreneurship and the silver economy. regional projects and exchange of information, entrepreneurship and the silver economy;

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4. Stresses that the regions should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting education, training, and up-skilling programmes, life-long learning, entrepreneurship and the silver economy.

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Amendment 116Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionParagraph 4



4. Stresses that states should make more active use of the European Structural and Investment Funds to address demographic change, particularly by supporting training programmes, entrepreneurship and the silver economy.

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4a. Urges the Member States to follow each other’s good examples and help young people to lead independent lives

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and start families, and to provide young people with such benefits as housing allowances, family tax concessions and preferential loans, among others;

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Amendment 118Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Stresses that the measures proposed herein are insufficient to provide answers to demographic challenges;

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Amendment 119Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionParagraph 4 b (new)


4b. Calls on the Member States to organise a large-scale debate on demographics-related issues, by proposing holding referendums on immigration throughout Europe in order to guide political responses while respecting the will of the peoples of Europe.

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Amendment 120Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaDraft opinionParagraph 4 b (new)


4b. Highlights the role of families and holding up the family and the extended family as a positive model to young

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people, and encourages starting families and having children responsibly in the light of population ageing;

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Amendment 121Andrea Bocskor, Ádám KósaDraft opinionParagraph 4 c (new)


4c Stresses the need to include instruction in entrepreneurship and other useful skills at all levels of education and training, as sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship in young people at an early stage will enable youth unemployment to be effectively combated;

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Amendment 122Dominique Bilde, France JametDraft opinionParagraph 4 c (new)


4c. Calls for ambitious, proactive birth-rate policies to be preferred to any other means of addressing the depopulation of our continent.

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Amendment 123José Manuel FernandesDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Calls on the European Commission to put forward a proposal for a common demographic policy in the European Union; believes that enhanced cooperation could be an adequate

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mechanism to establish and implement this policy and calls on the European Commission to cooperate with the Member States to that end; considers, furthermore, that a common demographic policy should be financed by resources from a specific line of the EU budget.

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Amendment 124Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Highlights the importance of adequate, reliable and comparable data on demographic change; calls on the Commission to revise the EU statistical framework by increasing the upper age limit for the collection of data, include in data collection persons living in institutions and disaggregation of data by gender and age, with full respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;

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Amendment 125Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Highlights that successful regional absorption capacity of EU cohesion funds greatly depends on territorial economic preconditions; highlights the added value of social dialogue between civil society stakeholders and authorities, at all stages of programming, for better planning and

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improved absorption of European Structural and Investment Funds;

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Amendment 126Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Sylvie Brunet, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Underlines that in order to address demographic challenges, the regions should use ESF more proactively in order to tackle youth unemployment and give young people the opportunity to start their career; encourages Member States to support training programmes for young people and the development of entrepreneurial mind-set;

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Amendment 127Sylvie Brunet, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Atidzhe Alieva-VeliDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Believes that cohesion funds should be used to foster active ageing in particular through social innovation initiatives aiming, inter alia, at facilitating the employment of older people, updating their skills, ensuring their autonomy or encouraging intergenerational exchanges;

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Amendment 128Tatjana ŽdanokaDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)

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4a. Stresses that fair and healthy work-life balance have to be guaranteed to all; Demands that tackling the in-work poverty becomes one of the top EU priorities.

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Amendment 129Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Highlights that employment and other relevant policies should involve workers’ representatives and trade unions to ensure that the workers’ interests are at their core;

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Amendment 130Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Abir Al-Sahlani, Radka Maxová, Sylvie BrunetDraft opinionParagraph 4 b (new)


4b. Recognises that factors of immense significance, which affect the demography of rural and remote areas, are the opportunities of adequate professional realisation, access to public services and opportunities for cultural and leisure activities; encourages Member States to recognise the significance of rural and remote areas, in their diversity, and develop their potential through stimulating investments in the local economy, fostering entrepreneurship and improving their connectivity;

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Amendment 131Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4 b (new)


4b. Calls for the proactive exchange of good practices and initiatives between local and regional authorities in the EU to foster a better understanding of demographic challenges, anticipate their impact on local labour markets and develop innovative and effective strategies;

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Amendment 132Milan Brglez, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabetta Gualmini, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Manuel Pizarro, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Alicia Homs Ginel, Gabriele Bischoff, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Heléne Fritzon, Johan DanielssonDraft opinionParagraph 4 b (new)


4b. Reiterates its call on the Member States to adopt without further delay the Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, COM/2008/0426 final, 2 July 2008.

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Amendment 133Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 4 b (new)


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4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the aid provided through the Temporary State Aid framework does not reinforce permanent distortions and inequalities in the single market, aggravating social and territorial cohesion;

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Amendment 134Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4 c (new)


4c. Stresses that reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions or islands, in particular rural areas, requires the further empowerment of women in those areas both in the economic and social terms, as well as securing work-life balance and promoting family-friendly policies;

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Amendment 135Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Sylvie Brunet, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4 c (new)


4c. Reminds that the outermost regions are especially predisposed to depopulation and require a special set of measures to mitigate negative demographic changes they often face; calls on the Member States to use proactively the available structural and investment funds in order to address the challenges these regions face;

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Amendment 136Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Sandra Pereira, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 4 c (new)


4c. Rejects the submission of structural and cohesion funds to conditionalities of the European Semester;

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Amendment 137Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Leila Chaibi, Özlem Demirel, Eugenia Rodríguez PalopDraft opinionParagraph 4 d (new)


4d. underlines that the implementation of the revised European Social Charter as well as of principles as the right to equal opportunities, health, long-term care and access to essential services, pensions, housing and assistance for the homeless included in the European Pillar of Social Rights are essential to fight the consequences of demographic changes and austerity measures; furthermore calls for the use of EU funds to ensure the access to health for all by promoting the establishment of medical practitioners and the maintenance of hospitals in rural areas;

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Amendment 138Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira Rafaela, Radka MaxováDraft opinionParagraph 4 d (new)


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4d. Calls for a regulatory framework that guarantees quality care services and allows for a broader use of telecare and telemedicine, by providing care professionals with legal safeguards and laying down the necessary requirements for training, with the purpose of securing care and primary care to all EU citizens, whatever their age, in any geographical area;

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Amendment 139Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaDraft opinionParagraph 4 e (new)


4e. Underlines the need to ensure the principles and objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights, especially its principles on the right to equal opportunities, health, inclusion of people with disabilities, long-term care and access to essential services, old-age income and pensions, housing and assistance for the homeless are essential to support quality of life for people of all ages on local level; welcomes the plan of the European Commission to come forward with an Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 140Jordi Cañas, Dragoș Pîslaru, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Samira RafaelaDraft opinionParagraph 4 f (new)


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4f. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven the need for a EU model which promotes and safeguards the dignity and fundamental rights of the elderly; calls on the Commission to pursue an agenda that develops a European plan for the rights of the elderly on the basis of Article 25 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;

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