4.3.2020 A9-0025/22 Amendment 22 Sandra Pereira, João Ferreira, Leila Chaïbi, Mick Wallace, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard, Clare Daly, Anne-Sophie Pelletier on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Report A9-0025/2020 Klára Dobrev European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (2019/2212(INI)) Motion for a resolution Recital AF a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment AFa. whereas it is imperative to break with the neoliberal principles that have governed the policies imposed by the European Union on the peoples and workers of the Member States; whereas such principles run counter to social progress and sustainable economic growth; Or. pt AM\1200496EN.docx PE647.567v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 4.3.2020 A9-0025/23 Amendment 23 Sandra Pereira, João Ferreira, Leila Chaïbi, Mick Wallace, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard, Clare Daly, Anne-Sophie Pelletier on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Report A9-0025/2020 Klára Dobrev European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (2019/2212(INI)) Motion for a resolution Recital AF b (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment AFb. whereas the provisions of the Fiscal Compact, which require significant and persistent primary budget surpluses, have devastating economic and social consequences; Or. pt AM\1200496EN.docx PE647.567v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 4.3.2020 A9-0025/24 Amendment 24 Sandra Pereira, João Ferreira, Leila Chaïbi, Mick Wallace, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard, Clare Daly, Anne-Sophie Pelletier on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Report A9-0025/2020 Klára Dobrev European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (2019/2212(INI)) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 1a. Urges the start of a genuine fight against inequalities, precariousness and low wages, which have been hampering economic growth and social progress; recalls, however, that this is impossible under current EU economic governance arrangements and the Lisbon Treaty; calls, therefore, for the repeal of the European Semester and the convening of an intergovernmental summit with a view to establishing a formal procedure enabling the reversal of the Treaties and to repealing the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Stability and Growth Pact and the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance; Or. pt AM\1200496EN.docx PE647.567v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 4.3.2020 A9-0025/25 Amendment 25 Sandra Pereira, João Ferreira, Leila Chaïbi, Mick Wallace, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard, Clare Daly, Anne-Sophie Pelletier on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Report A9-0025/2020 Klára Dobrev European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (2019/2212(INI)) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 1b. Stresses that the country-specific recommendations are a blatant affront to sovereign, democratic decision-making by the Member States’ peoples concerning the future of their countries; recalls that these recommendations have focused on liberalising and privatising strategic sectors of the economy (energy, transport, telecommunications and banking), imposing labour market flexibility, eliminating labour rights, containing rises in, or even reducing, wages and pensions, cutting public spending on social support, health and education and, thereby, cutting social entitlements; Or. pt AM\1200496EN.docx PE647.567v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 4.3.2020 A9-0025/26 Amendment 26 Sandra Pereira, João Ferreira, Leila Chaïbi, Mick Wallace, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard, Clare Daly, Anne-Sophie Pelletier on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Report A9-0025/2020 Klára Dobrev European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (2019/2212(INI)) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 6a. Notes that in several Member States wages need to be increased across the board as a matter of national urgency; urges, therefore, the Commission to abstain from interfering in this matter, for instance by neither blackmailing nor exerting any pressure on those Member States that wish to address this emergency; Or. pt AM\1200496EN.docx PE647.567v01-00 EN United in diversityEN.