35 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2016/2269(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to the Commission Social Investment Package of 20 February 2013, including the Recommendation entitled 'Investing in Children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage',
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 14 March 2017 on equality between women and men in the European Union in 2014-2015,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 b (new)
Citation 19 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2014 on an EU homelessness strategy,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 a (new)
Citation 29 a (new)
- having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and more specifically to its sustainable development goal 10 "Reduce inequalities within and among countries",
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas inequality undermines social trust and social well-being and erodes support for democratic institutions;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas more equal societies incur less welfare expenditure for the state;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas trends in inequality do not necessarily coincide with trends in absolute and extreme forms of poverty such as homelessness;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas inequalities throughout the life-cycle are reflected in inequalities in old-age such as lower healthy life expectancy, old-age poverty, and a gender pension gap of almost 40 %;whereas this prevents older people to contribute fully to society and to support growth and quality of life as volunteers, carers, consumers or mentors;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
I c. whereas providing adequate support and funding around sustainable and permanent housing is essential to access to employment, education and health and strengthen integration and local acceptance.Safeguarding the liveability of neighbourhoods and fighting segregation is an important part of supporting the integration and reducing inequalities;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reminds the Commission and the Member States that the European Union must fulfil its commitments under the Treaties in terms of promoting the wellbeing of its peoples, full employment and social progress, social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations, and protection of the rights of the child20 and inclusion of all people who are in vulnerable situation or suffer from marginalisation; _________________ 20 Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Preamble of the TFEU.
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Urges the Commission to promote ambitious investment in social protection, services and infrastructures by Member States through a more targeted and strategic use of the European Structural and Investment Funds and the European Fund for Strategic Investments to respond to the social and economic needs of Member States and regions;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to raise the funding level of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) for the period 2017-2020 to least EUR 21 billion, including young people under 30; calls on the Commission to ensure better implementation of the Youth Guarantee by focusing more on the most vulnerable young people who often have to cope with complex needs, taking into account the latest findings of the European Court of Auditors’' report on use of the YEI;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to work with Member States to develop comprehensive job creation strategies aiming for strategic investment in green jobs, in the social, health and care sectors, and in the social economy, whose employment potential is untapped;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to further invest into life- long learning, such as Upskilling Pathways, to enable everyone to adapt to the changing requirements of today's labour markets;stresses that skills validation and recognition of formal and informal learning are important tools to enable acquired skills to be valued in labour markets;insists that life-long learning opportunities should be promoted along the whole of the life- cycle, including old age, to play out their full potential in fighting inequalities;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on addressing discrimination in recruitment and discriminatory recruitment procedures which prevent people from entering the job market for reasons of (among others) gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, ethnicity, disability, age;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Expresses its concern about the increasing number of atypical work contracts and forms of non-standard employment linked with precarious working conditions, lower wages, exploitation and poorer social security contributions, and rising inequality, and rapidly increasing numbers of people suffering from forms of poverty and extreme poverty such as homelessness;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a Framework Directive on decent working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, eliminating discrimination based on contractual status, ensuring a minimum number of working hours and facilitating decent working times and the right to negotiate schedules; calls on the Commission, through the European Semester and CSRs, to recommend Member States to take action to raise the level of minimum wage, as a general rule, progressively towards 60% of the national median wage.
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls foron the Commission to propose a framework directive laying down a common approach across Member States regarding the introduction of a Minimum Income Scheme, including levels of adequacy and ways to improve the non-take up by beneficiaries, in order to support people with insufficient income across the life cycle, ease access to fundamental services, combat poverty and foster social integration; stresses that the tool of reference budgets, which indicate the cost of living in dignity for different regions, housing arrangements, household composition and ages, should be used to assess the adequacy of minimum income schemes provided by Member States;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a European Unemployment Insurance scheme, complementing current national unemployment benefit systems; considers that such an automatic stabiliser can play an important role in reducing inequality between countries and in neutralising the consequences arising from the absorption of asymmetric shocks; studies show that the marginal stabilisation effect of the European Unemployment Benefit Scheme for countries severely hit by a recession may well be over 20% 1a; a European Unemployment Insurance scheme would be part of social minimum standards at EU level to couple with the negative social effects of unemployment, paving the way to a social Union; _________________ 1aMiroslav Beblavý, Gabriele Marconi and Ilaria Maselli (Centre for European Policy Studies), A European Unmployment Benefit scheme,August 2015
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Stresses that regarding the long term finance of new construction of dwellings, besides the ESI Funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), other private and public funding should be mobilized as a way to step up the activities of national public banks or other agencies in the field of affordable and social housing;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls on the Member States to take action to ensure that discrimination, harassment and violence based on gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation and sex characteristics (among others) is addressed in the workplace, and clear reporting and support mechanisms for victims, and procedures against perpetrators, are in place;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Highlights that, in many countries, welfare and social protection systems have been severely undermined by austerity measures with huge consequences in terms of income inequalities and increasing levels of extreme poverty especially amongst young people;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to reform their welfare systems (education, health, housing, pensions and transfers) in order to achieve more effective redistribution and promote fairer distribution, taking into account the new social risks and vulnerable groups that have arisen from the social and economic challenges confronting society including very urgent problems such as rising homelessness;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to put forward a European legal framework in line with the related ILO recommendation to guarantee every European citizen a social protection floor with universal access to healthcare, housing, basic income security and access to the goods and services defined as necessary at national level;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Affirms that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old-age pensions must be granted to all; calls on the Commission to support Member States in strengthening public and occupational pension systems to provide an adequate retirement income well above the poverty threshold and to allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living or to live in dignity and independence; reiterates its call for care credits in pension systems to compensate for lost contributions of women and men due to child and long-term care responsibilities as a tool to reduce the gender pension gap; highlights that while personal pension schemes can be important tools to improve pension adequacy, statutory solidarity-based pension systems remain the most efficient tool to combat old-age poverty and social exclusion and therefore should be provided with adequate resources;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Considers that the current inequality of opportunities for children and young peopleutcomes for everyone living in the EU, but especially for children and young people, is often aggravated by the non-egalitarian design of education systems and has damaging consequences for their wellbeing and ‘wellbecoming’development as individuals, thereby contributing to the estrangementa low sense of self-worth and inclusion in society of European youth, especially those on the wrong side of the opportunity gap;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up the fight against poverty, and especially among children, by setting targets to reduce child poverty, ensuring the coordinated implementation of the Recommendation on Investmenting in Children Initiative, and through the creation of a Child Guarantee scheme;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Considers the rapid increases of homelessness in most EU Member States an issue of urgent concern.In line with the principles outlined in the Social Rights Pillar, the European Commission should support Member States in their efforts to curb the rising trend of homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30 b. Highlights that social dialogue should be complemented by civil dialogue with representatives of different groups of society, such as people living in poverty, different age groups, persons with different sexual orientations, persons with disabilities when discussing matters relating to inequalities and the fight against poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Considers that, despite existing legislation enshrining the principle of equal pay for work of equal value by male and female workl workers irrespective of their genders, there is still a gender pay gap and an even greater gender pension gap; calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the gender gap challenge in pay and pensions;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Urges Member States to reform tax and benefit systems so that they are free from disincentives for second earners to work or work more, because women often are second earners;invites the Member States to replace household unit models with the individualisation of taxation and social security rights in order to ensure that women have individual rights and to counter dependency status through their partners or through the state;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32 b. Underlines the crucial role of high quality public services, especially for women, as they are more dependent on such services;underlines the importance of universal access to high-quality, affordable, conveniently located and demand-driven public services in the fight against poverty and injustices;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Encourages the Commission to develop a legislative instrument to protect those who report breaches of conduct or any other wrongdoing by companies or public bodies to the concerned public authorities;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Calls on the Commission to drive reforms of Member States' taxation policies to ensure adequate public budgets for health, housing, social, employment, and education services;this should involve fighting tax evasion and avoidance and tackling corruption in public administration, as well as ensuring fairer redistribution;