10 Amendments of Annika BRUNA related to 2021/2254(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the birth rate is falling in Europe and the rate of most Member States is below population replacement level; whereas rural areas are particularly affected by this phenomenon;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas rural areas are often isolated, and victims of domestic violence living there experience more difficulties in alerting others to the violence they are suffering;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas only 30 % of farms across the EU are managed by women; whereas SMEs are predominant in rural regions;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in rural development policy; calls for the exchange of best practices between Member States, in particular as regards the professional status of assisting spouses and partners in agriculture and taking their work into account in terms of retirement pensions;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary peripatetic – healthcare, childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension rights, and women’s access to available EU funds; considers, in general terms, that access to all public services in rural areas must remain a priority;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary peripatetic – healthcare, childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting the birth rate, women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension rights, and women’s access to available EU funds;
Amendment 106 #
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote digital and hybrid education, reskilling and upskilling of women in rural areas and to further develop access to specific education programmes and quality jobs in order to enhance their potential; to this end, calls for thought to be given to developing peripatetic training courses and childcare appropriate for women who are training;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on Member States to reduce the gap in per-head public expenditure between urban and rural areas, as this inequality has a particular adverse impact on rural women’s quality of life;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on Member States to put in place alert and contact options for women in rural areas who are victims of domestic violence; considers, on this point, that a 24/7 European telephone support line for victims of violence, publicised via the media, would be useful;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on Member States to facilitate access by women living in rural areas to the IT equipment that is vital for most training, job-seeking and freelance professional activities, through loans of equipment or grants.