12 Amendments of Daniela AIUTO related to 2015/2223(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas many women and families live below the poverty line in that they do not have enough income to meet their basic needs, as a result of the worsening crisis and increasing household costs;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas a basic income would enable families to escape poverty and would help women in particular to bridge the economic and social divide between them and men;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas gender-related tax problems are widespread, and whereas the failure to introduce tax concessions and favourable tax conditions is worsening the situation of women in the family and in society;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas large families with dependent under-age children incur greater costs and burdens which could force them into poverty;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the children of poor families are often taken into care, resulting in increased spending on childcare facilities and emotional trauma for the children separated from their parents;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas levels of welfare support differ from one Member State to another, and whereas that support does not always guarantee an adequate level of assistance, in particular where the elderly, children and persons with a disability are concerned; whereas this state of affairs increases the costs and workload borne by women, who are forced to choose between caring for their loved ones and their own careers;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses deep concern at the Commission’s assessment that the 2020 anti-poverty target ‘seems out of reach’ and insists on fresh political impetus for dprasctical, resolute and binding action to tackle poverty in the EU; calls on the Member States to ensure that national poverty strategies are gender mainstreamed and address gender inequality;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to issue guidelines to the Member States with a view to guaranteeing minimum welfare standards, gradually raising the level of those standards and offering better assistance to the elderly, children and persons with a disability;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to safeguard families and the role of women within families by introducing a basic income which guarantees that they remain above the poverty line;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for tax relief for large and one- parent families, which statistics show are most likely to suffer poverty;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasises the need for the banking system, which in recent years has received significant amounts of public money to safeguard its liquidity, to offer women, and in particular women with children, easier access to credit, in the form of favourable interest rates and streamlined procedures;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Member States to introduce direct subsidies for poor families, so that the children in such families can be raised with dignity, rather than being taken into care;