Activities of Margot PARKER related to 2015/2223(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Meeting the antipoverty target in the light of increasing household costs (A8-0040/2016 - Tamás Meszerics)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women and their dependent children are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and the economic crisis and EU imposed austerity policies have exacerbated these inequalities, leading to a ‘feminisation of poverty’; whereas income distribution within households is unequal and gendered, requiring individualised measurements of income and costs;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for more ambitious action to tackle energy poverty, which disproportionately affects single-parent and female-headed households, by repatriating all parts of EU energy policy back to Member States;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that EU energy policy has led to increased fuel poverty, loss of jobs, unsustainable costs for business and higher household costs; calls therefore for the repatriation of energy policy back to Member States;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5