3 Amendments of Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN related to 2010/2039(INI)
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need for concrete measures to effectively and significantly reduce poverty and social exclusion, ensuring a fair redistribution of income and wealth and also givinggiving genuine meaning and content to the European Year for Combating Poverty and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including guaranteeing an adequate minimum income throughout the European Unionon the basis of national rules or collective agreements;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the various experiments with minimum incomes, accompanied by social integration measures, show that this is a further essential way of combating poverty and social exclusion; therefore calls on the European Commission to prepare an initiative supporting these experiments, taking into account best practices and ensuring an adequathe minimum income throughoutin the European Union as a means to prevent poverty and guarantee social justice and equal opportunities for all, without calling into question the specific situations in each Member State;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges those people in a state of poverty and their representative organisations to participate in the preparation and application of policies, measures and indicators at European, national, regional and local levels; calls, in that connection, for extra support to be given to measures to foster the integration of such people into the labour market;