15 Amendments of Lampros FOUNTOULIS related to 2014/2237(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14
Citation 14
— having regard to its resolution of 4 July 2013 on the impact of the crisis on access to care for socially vulnerable groups 3, __________________ 3 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2013)0328.
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recommends that Member States increase the quantity, amounts, scope and effectiveness of the social support specifically directed to children, but also to parents (such as unemployment benefits) and to promote. As regards parents, recommends the promotion of special labour laws that guarantee social rights and security to families and fight both precarious employmentand undeclared employment, also taking care to pay appropriate benefits as and when deemed necessary;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends that Member States implement and/or enhance existing universal welfare benefits targeting children as antheir intrinsic right of the childand inalienable right;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to refrain from recommending reformulations and cuts in the public services of Member States, from promoting flexible labour relations and the privatisation of public services, which have led unequivocally to the weakening of the social rights of children, especially in countries which have been hit by the economic crisis and have already taken strict measures which in turn have resulted in staff and spending cuts with depressing consequences on all their social groups, causing chronic suffering primarily among young people and children;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the European Commission and the European Parliament to take the opportunity provided by the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework to increase the appropriations from the European Social Fund and the Food Aid Program for the most deprived groups and to check if children are a priority in the programming and implementation of regional and cohesion policies and also to encourage the adoption of regulations and policies that ensure that the above sectors are prioritised;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the European Commission and the European Parliament to take the opportunity provided by the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework to increase the appropriations from the European Social Fund and the Food Aid Program for the most deprived groups and to check proper use of those appropriations and if children are a priority in the programming and implementation of regional and cohesion policies;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that Member States' national budgets contain visible and transparent provisions for costs to combat child poverty ands well as to fulfil their duty to protect children from poverty and need, thereby safeguarding a minimum level of decent existence;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect orand increase maternity and paternity rights and to pay particular attention to families with children with special needs;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that Member States develop proactive social policies that prevent poverty and the departure of children from their family environment, ensuring that it is not through poverty and the fact that their parents cannot afford to raise them that children are institutionalised;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recommends that Member States guarantee all children access to free, quality public education at all ages, including early childhood, and establish appropriate teacher-student ratiosbetter teacher-student ratios, given that often teachers are charged with teaching overly large classes, which impacts on the quality of their work;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that Member States provide free school materials and school transportation during school hours and free meals as and when deemed necessary, in order to reduce the problem of malnutrition in schools;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges Member States to guarantee universal, public, free and quality health care with regard to prevention and primary care, access to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, guaranteeing women the right to sexual and reproductive health by, free checks during pregnancy, by also ensuring health care for babies, maternity care in the pre- and post-natal care period, particularly in the case of premature birth, access to family doctors, dentists and mental health specialists for all children and for persons with special needs, and integrate these aspects into national and the EU public health strategies;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends that Member States provide the necessary support with infrastructures and means to ensure the right to culture, access to sport and leisure for all children, with a focus on children from families in poverty, children in remote, deprived or outermost areas, and children with disabilities, and migrants;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States, particularly those wherehit by the economic crisis over recent years as a result of which social inequalities are greater, to strengthen social rights that the state must guarantee, increasing the number of employees and technicians in social security services, and increasmproving the medical, psychological and social care of children;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Recommends and urges that new research and studies to measure child poverty be carried out annually, taking account of the constant change in indicators due to the particular social situation caused by the crisis;