10 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2015/2223(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas financially vulnerable groups, such as unemployed, students, single-parent families, low-income families, widowed, permanently ill, suffer particularly of high level on living costs;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. considering that energy poverty can be defined as the inability of a household to support an adequate level of energy supply so as to guarantee basic levels of comfort and health, due to a combination of low income, high energy prices and low quality housing stock;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. considering that energy poverty is becoming an increasingly widespread problem in Europe, and that the situation is likely to get worse in the next few years due to the forecast increases in energy prices, the corresponding increase in income inequality and in poverty in general, the lack of adequate heating systems and the general poor quality of housing insulation, in particular in Mediterranean countries;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. considering that the Energy Union must provide an effective response to energy poverty, which affects more than 100 million Europeans, through strengthening the position of the most vulnerable consumers, improving energy efficiency for the most vulnerable and developing corrective measures to provide access to affordable energy for people in need;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution 'Towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union' of 20 November 2012 (Thyssen report) called for a European Social Pact as the fifth pillar of the EMU in order to promote amongst others decent living wages with minimum incomes preventing in-work poverty;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt integrated frameworks to combat energy poverty by linking energy and poverty/social inclusion policies more closely; invites the Commission also to present a Communication on energy poverty in Europe, accompanied by an action plan to fight against it, which contains a definition and indicators of energy poverty;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
- ending anyWelcoming social factors as part of economic governance and implementing effective social impact assessment to prevent EU policies in other policy areas that may lead to increase poverty;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. calls on the Member States, to introduce, according to national practices, minimum income schemes to avoid pockets of social exclusion in order to ensure a minimum income to households and curb household poverty;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls for a comprehensive strategy to fight poverty based on access to decent jobs leading to quality employment, services, and the activation of minimum income and social protection according to the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15 c. Underlines that already now there is a lost generation; therefore it is extremely important to prevent the threat for future where even more youth slip under the energy poverty;