Activities of Kostadinka KUNEVA related to 2015/2223(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Meeting the antipoverty target in the light of increasing household costs (debate) EL
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on meeting the antipoverty target in the light of increasing household costs
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas there are 12 million more women than men living in poverty conditions in EU; whereas 22 % of women and their dependent children are disproportionately at risk of poverty andor social exclusion, andcross the EU; whereas the economic crisis and, the austerity policies, the cuts and measures imposed have exacerbated these inequalities, leading to a ‘'feminisation of poverty’'; whereas there is a large proportion of women working in precarious or undeclared types of work; whereas women are often forced to remain economically and labour inactive due to "obligations" of childcare and household care that are called to bear; whereas income distribution within households is unequal and gendered, requiring individualised measurements of income and costs;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the gender gaps in remuneration, working hours and duration of working lives that women faced during their working lives have a direct effect in then pension lives; whereas, women above age 65, have a substantially higher risk of poverty or social exclusion than their male counterparts, as the average pension income of a woman is currently lower, and often substantially so, than that of a man;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the cost for basic and essential goods and services, in many EU countries, has increased rapidly during the last years, leading to increase on household general expenditures;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, the increase in family and household costs affects particularly certain groups, such as single-parent families, elderly women, women migrants and disabled people;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas unemployment rates among young women are higher than other age groups, putting young women at risk of falling into poverty from an early age;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas, according to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Children Concluding Observations, reports on certain European countries show that there is a relation between the increase of poverty rates and/or the risk of poverty for children as a consequence of the economic crisis and the cuts in social benefits, affecting the rights of children to education, health and social protection;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses deep concern atnd finds unacceptable the Commission’s assessment that the 2020 anti-poverty target ‘seems out of reach’ and insists on fresh political impetus for drastic action from the Commission´s side in close collaboration with the Economic and Financial Affairs and the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Councils to tackle poverty in the EU; calls on the Member States to ensure that national poverty strategies and to support measures that are gender mainstreamed and address gender inequality;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to identify gender- specific indicators in the field of poverty eradication and to incorporate a more robust social dimension and a gender pillar in the European Semester, and to include country-specific recommendations (CSRs) which address the gender aspects of poverty;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls the European Commission to extend the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived beyond 2020 and to facilitate the entry of the most deprived and vulnerable groups, such as the younger women, the single-parental families, the disabled and elderly women groups of population to the labour market;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls Member States to undertake gender impact assessments of the recession and in order to track subsequent changes over time, given the fact that women are likely to be disproportionally affected by future cuts in public spending and services;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that cuts to public services increase gender inequality; stresses that macroeconomic policy must be compatible with social equality policy, and that it must include a strong gender perspective to these end a "social group" should be envisaged to prepare decisions on social protection matters in analogy to the Eurogroup; a strong gender perspective should define the decisions on the above mentioned policies;