17 Amendments of Agnes JONGERIUS related to 2018/2279(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)
Citation 4 c (new)
- having regard to the EU priorities at the United Nations and the 73rd United Nations General Assembly (September 2018 – September 2019) as adopted by the Council on 25 June 2018
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 d (new)
Citation 4 d (new)
- having regard to the European Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) from 30 May 2018,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 e (new)
Citation 4 e (new)
- Having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas involvement of social partners has been instrumental in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals from their beginning, to include priorities such as decent work, fight against inequalities, just transition and civil society participation; whereas their active participation is the review process of the progress and their implementation are key;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas around 22.5% of the EU population is still at risk of poverty or social exclusion and 6.9% of Europeans still suffer severe material deprivation; whereas the eradication of poverty is a primary objective of the Unions development policy;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)
Recital H d (new)
H d. whereas there is a persistently high level of child poverty and social exclusion in the Union (26,4% in 2017); whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights states that children have the right to protection from poverty, and that children from disadvantaged backgrounds have the rights to specific measures to enhance equal opportunities;, whereas investing early in children yields significant returns for these children and society as a whole and is crucial to break the vicious cycle of disadvantage in early years;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H h (new)
Recital H h (new)
H h. whereas the UNICEF report on the “Early assessment of progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals” found an alarming lack of data in 64 countries, as well as insufficient progress toward the SDGs in case of another 37 countries; whereas over half a billion children live in countries unable to measure SDG progress;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)
Recital H e (new)
H e. whereas decent work is the basis for fair and inclusive growth and a driver of development and social advancement;, whereas along with social protection for those that cannot find a job or are unable to work it addresses inequality and has a major pull on social and economic progress;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)
Recital H f (new)
H f. whereas according to the ILO 60 % of workers lack any kind of employment contract; and fewer than 45 per cent of wage- and salaried workers are employed on a full-time, permanent basis and that share is declining; whereas flexible and on-demand type contracts are on the rise, as are precarious employment relationships and unpaid work trials and abusive training practices, as well as leasing and outsourcing practices that seek to circumvent labour legislation;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H g (new)
Recital H g (new)
H g. whereas high and rising inequality between and within countries has a significant social and economic cost;, whereas the current rise in inequality is in clear contradiction with the objective of sustainable development;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the need for the EU to integrate to the knowledge and information of already existing monitoring frameworks in order to develop an integrated and participatory monitoring, accountability and review framework that gathers information and relevant disaggregated data, including by sex, age, migratory status as appropriate and disability, at national and subnational levels, while acknowledging that Eurostat alone cannot comprehensively capture all dimensions of SDG progress, taking into account spill- over effects and the need for indicators which are not purely economic in nature;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the establishment of a working party on the 2030 Agenda under the General Affairs Council; calls for the establishment of SDG coordination and cooperation mechanisms between Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and for the involvement of all three institutions in a future work of the multi- stakeholder platform on sustainable development;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Calls on the European Commission to use the potential of the future European Social Fund+ (ESF+) to contribute to implementing the SDGs in the Member States by, inter alia, eradicating extreme forms of poverty (goal 1); promoting good health and wellbeing (goal 3), promoting quality and inclusive education (goal 4); promoting gender equality (goal 5),; promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (goal 8); and reducing inequality (goal 10);
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17 d. Stresses that the adoption of policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, are key in reducing inequalities;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17 c. Calls on the Council to keep in mind the SDGs when developing their position on the future ESF+ and the allocation of the necessary financial allocations; underlines that the success of the SDGs in the Union depends on ambitious policies backed by sufficient resources;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 e (new)
Paragraph 17 e (new)
17 e. Calls for an integrated approach to eradicating child poverty and the establishment of the European Child Guarantee in order to contribute to children’s equal access to free quality healthcare, free quality education, free quality childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition for the eradication of the child poverty and social exclusion; calls in this respect for the allocation of at least EUR 5.9 billion for a the European Child Guarantee; calls on and on the Member States to invest at least 5% of their ESF+ resources to targeted actions aiming at the implementation of such a guarantee;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 f (new)
Paragraph 17 f (new)
17 f. Calls on the Commission to continue to put forward legislative proposals that translate the Social Pillar into concrete rights for workers and that address precarious employment relationships and abusive practices, such as via a Directive on Decent Work;