Activities of Helmut GEUKING
Plenary speeches (37)
Appointment of the President of the European Central Bank - Candidate: Ms Christine Lagarde (debate)
The Turkish military operation in northeast Syria and its consequences (debate)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Fighting against antisemitism, racism and hatred across Europe (debate)
European coordinated response to the COVID-19 outbreak (debate)
EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences (continuation of debate)
Vaccines and therapeutics in the context of Covid-19 (debate)
Presentation of the programme of activities of the German Presidency (debate)
The EU’s public health strategy post-COVID-19 (continuation of debate)
Conclusions of the extraordinary European Council meeting of 17-21 July 2020 (continuation of debate)
Implementation of the EU Association Agreement with Georgia (debate)
The need for an immediate and humanitarian EU response to the current situation in the refugee camp in Moria (debate)
Digital Finance: emerging risks in crypto-assets - regulatory and supervisory challenges in the area of financial services, institutions and markets - Further development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU): improving access to capital market finance, in particular by SMEs, and further enabling retail investor participation (debate)
The impact of Covid-19 outbreak on long-term care facilities (debate)
Economic policies of the euro area 2020 - Employment and social policies of the euro area 2020 (debate)
EU measures to mitigate social and economic impact of Covid-19 (debate)
Transparency of the Purchase as well as the Access to COVID-19 vaccinations (debate)
Stocktaking of European elections (continuation of debate)
Council Recommendation on vocational education and training (VET) for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience (debate)
The listing of German NGOs as 'undesirable organisations' by Russia and the detention of Andrei Pivovarov
Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)
Direction of EU-Russia political relations (continuation of debate)
Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba
One youth, one Europe (topical debate)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)
Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)
Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)
Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)
Common European action on care (debate)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
A need for a dedicated budget to turn the Child Guarantee into reality - an urgency in times of energy and food crisis (debate)
Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)
Protection of workers from extreme heat and other extreme weather phenomena resulting from the climate crisis (debate)
Decent Housing for All (topical debate)
Children first - strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption - Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families (joint debate – International Day of the Rights of the Child)
Environmental consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the need for accountability (debate)
Environmental consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the need for accountability (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth survey 2022
Shadow reports (3)
REPORT on the employment and social policies of the euro area 2020
REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
REPORT on reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families
Institutional motions (8)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on The listing of German NGOs as 'undesirable organisations' by Russia and the detention of Andrei Pivovarov
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the listing of German NGOs as ‘undesirable organisations’ by Russia and the detention of Andrei Pivovarov
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor in UAE
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the death penalty in Iran
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the death penalty in Iran
Oral questions (4)
Facial recognition and identification in publicly accessible spaces
Putting forward an EU Strategy for Demography
European initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers
Prohibiting chick and duckling killing in EU law
Written questions (9)
The Commission’s decision to award a contract to BlackRock to oversee the development of ESG factors in the EU banking sector and corporate investment policies
Creating a better internet for children to protect them from online threats during the current lockdown
A bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan as a logical next step in strengthening the EU’s ties with Asia and a counterweight to China’s economic expansion
Political killing in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Supporting European primary care systems
Combating the emerging threat of online extortion
Zero tolerance of child labour in EU trade
Rise of antisemitism and hate speech in Bulgaria
Commission communication ‘A comprehensive approach to mental health’ and phenylketonuria patients
Individual motions (3)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on banning the production of tea bags containing plastic
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on reversing the European demographic trend
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on ‘Radionuclides: measures to tackle shortages and the construction of new production sites’
Amendments (121)
Amendment 6 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the European Social Charter, adopted in Turin in 1961,
Amendment 42 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to the Council Recommendation of 22 May 2019 on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Systems,
Amendment 44 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 b (new)
Citation 16 b (new)
– having regard to the Proposal for a Council Recommendation 2022/0263 of 14 September 2022 on the Revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care,
Amendment 61 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas child poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon stemming from householdfamily poverty, meaning that low- income families, single-parent families – mostly made up of women and their children – and large families are at greater risk of poverty; whereas this phenomenon requires a multidimensional response, which necessarily includes improving employment and job security, guaranteeing and enforcing rights, increasing income and ensuring universal access to quality public services; , including via the possibility to introduce a child raising income1a, and ensuring effective access to effective quality public services; _________________ 1a The European child allowance and the child raising income are essential economic stimulus programs aimed at alleviating poverty in all European Member States, strengthening families, increasing local purchasing power and tax revenue, and stimulating the circulation of money and the economy, which is imperatively necessary in order to better manage the crises. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States autonomously determine the financial depth and speed.
Amendment 88 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, adopted in 2021, aims to reduce the number of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion by at least 5 million by 2030; whereas even if this target were achieved around 15t least 20 million children in the EU would still be at risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 95 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas early disparities in skills, in children’s sense of curiosity, security and confidence become difficult to compensate for and have grave developmental implications over time and throughout the lifespan;
Amendment 99 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas children need the opportunity to learn, play, explore and communicate, and for that, ensuring adequate family income and housing conditions is vital;
Amendment 103 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the socio-economic status (SES) of children who are poor or at risk of poverty may lead to large developmental disparities, which precede the start of formal schooling and hinder the ability of education and learning systems to produce equal outcomes for all;
Amendment 114 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas childcare and pre-school education mayas well as the development of cognitive, physical and socio-emotional skills necessary for participation in school and society, are of considerable importance for all children and do play a significant role in compensating for the socio-economic status of children at risk of poverty and foster the integrin particular for children in vulnerable situations of parents, especially mothers, into the labour marketr from disadvantaged backgrounds;
Amendment 122 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas institutions with semi- inpatient and inpatient facilities, especially in times of crisis, need good, qualified staff with child-friendly staffing levels to ensure that children and their families are cared for as needed and to provide children with qualified educational opportunities in order to promote their social integration;
Amendment 124 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, particularly in times of crisis, the creation of high-quality jobs, through the expansion and promotion of companies, flexible, dynamic labor markets, the elimination of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, combating the shortage of skilled workers through a corresponding qualification offensive and a right to training, is an important preventive measure to reduce inequalities and promote the social inclusion of children and their families;
Amendment 131 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas even in countries where the right to health is enshrined in law, many children and their families do not have access to adequate healthcare and some have extremely limited access to services other than emergency services, putting at risk the health of women, their relatives and their children during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the health of babies and children;
Amendment 139 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas children, parents, families and foster families and carers should be protected from discrimination, such as discrimination on grounds of sex, language, sexual orientation, religion or belief, political or ideological beliefs, national, racial, ethnic or social origin, belonging to a national minority, economic situation, disability, age or any other status, and children from vulnerable population groups are at greater risk of marginalisation, poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 162 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas playing gives children the opportunity to express themselves in a symbolic way and forms an essential basis of the way they think, strengthening children’s participation in society ;
Amendment 172 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the latest global estimatesit seems to be a taboo subject, there are strong indicateions that 160 million children were in child labour at the beginning of 2020, which accounts for almost 1 in 10 children worldwidechild labour remains a serious problem in Europe, interfereing with children’s schooling, affecting their results and leading to drop out of school;
Amendment 177 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas children belong in school and not in factories or fields;
Amendment 180 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the main cause for children having to work is poverty;
Amendment 182 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas child labour might be growing in the wake of the economic crisis and countries that were badly affected by austerity measures are countries at risk;
Amendment 184 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Amendment 185 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G e (new)
Recital G e (new)
Ge. whereas many countries have adequate legislation but fail to monitor actual practices;
Amendment 186 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G f (new)
Recital G f (new)
Gf. whereas the best interests of the child should be the guiding principle, as stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the standards of the European Social Charter;
Amendment 187 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G g (new)
Recital G g (new)
Gg. whereas new ways to tackle child poverty directly are to be explored. A useful instrument are economic stimulus programs that strengthen the purchasing power of the poorest, such as the European child allowance1a; _________________ 1a The European child allowance and the child raising income are essential economic stimulus programs aimed at alleviating poverty in all European Member States, strengthening families, increasing local purchasing power and tax revenue, and stimulating the circulation of money and the economy, which is imperatively necessary in order to better manage the crises. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States autonomously determine the financial depth and speed.
Amendment 193 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to increase public investment in universal effective policies that have a direct and indirect impact on children’s lives, by guaranteeing high-quality and effective public services (especially care, education, health, housing, cultural and leisure activities), to promote the creation of work with rights based on robust collective bargaining and recruitmenthigh quality work and thus to promote the necessary improvement of the socio-economic status of children who are poor or at risk of poverty with decent and fair wages, to facilitate areconcile family and work- life balance by, inter alia, reducing working hours and providing for maternity and paternity leavthrough a child raising income1a so that mothers and fathers are equally available to the labor markets in the future, and to bolster mechanisms for ensuring the participation of children and their families in the development, implementation and monitoring of these policies; _________________ 1a The European child allowance and the child raising income are essential economic stimulus programs aimed at alleviating poverty in all European Member States, strengthening families, increasing local purchasing power and tax revenue, and stimulating the circulation of money and the economy, which is imperatively necessary in order to better manage the crises. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States autonomously determine the financial depth and speed.
Amendment 204 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to establish policies (and practices) that empower parents to support their children outside the childcare setting throughout their childhood, and particularly during early childhood, when children are aged 0–3;
Amendment 214 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. DeplorNotes the fact that the governments of the Member States are moving away from universal policies and increasingly promoting policies based on the liberalisation of services and instruments whose availability depends on the resources of the beneficiaries; stresses for this reason, that universal and long-term policies offergive better protection against the multiple causes of poverty and social exclusion, by providing structural responses that can, if necessary, also be supplemented by immediate, one-offreinforcing necessary support measures;
Amendment 223 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to refrain from recommending reforms that lead to cuts in and the weakcommend a strengthening of public administrations and services in the Member States, aimed at in order to reduce inequalities and promotinge the relaxation of employment relationships and the privatisation of public services, which have led to the weakening and, in some cases, the undermining of the social and labour rights of children and their families; deploressocial inclusion of children and their families in times of crisis and to counteract privatisation; expresses its incomprehension with regard to the recent statements by the President of the ECB, who criticised the investments by national governments in social responses aimed at addressing the increased cost of living;
Amendment 240 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasizes that the lessons learned from the Corona crisis have clearly shown that tools such as home office, online teaching and social care/counseling on the computer can also have a negative impact on promoting the social inclusion of children and their families;
Amendment 243 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 247 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Emphasizes that children in special life situations due to illness, care, disability and / or cognitive disorders need specific and targeted measures as well as special educational and care offers in order to preventively counteract inequalities in social security protection and a lack of social integration of their person and their families in times of crisis;
Amendment 250 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Emphasizes that parents deserve the utmost respect and esteem from all of us, because a strong Europe can only come from strong families; calls on the Member States to set up counseling structures tailored to the needs of all parents, particularly with regard to disadvantaged sections of society;
Amendment 252 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote family- centered early childhood policies and intervention that pay attention to the needs and aspirations of families, especially vulnerable families as defined within their context, and that contribute to a more inclusive, future-oriented society.
Amendment 254 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Amendment 255 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Moreover calls on Member States to pay specific attention to the problems of child labour in Europe, and to carefully evaluate the potential impact on child labour caused by budgetary cuts in the field of education and training as well in social policies and support to families;
Amendment 256 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Calls on Member States to more intensively fight and condemn child labour, to investigate and guarantee labour inspection agencies to be in a position to do their work adequately, to collect data and monitor child labor and to use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Social Charter as guidance for preventive and remedial action;
Amendment 262 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to implement legislation, such as a child raising income1a, that protects or enhances maternity, paternity and parental rights, and allowings for a considerably more effective work- life balance that makes it possible for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave, and for breastfeeding; _________________ 1a The European child allowance and the child raising income are essential economic stimulus programs aimed at alleviating poverty in all European Member States, strengthening families, increasing local purchasing power and tax revenue, and stimulating the circulation of money and the economy, which is imperatively necessary in order to better manage the crises. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States autonomously determine the financial depth and speed.
Amendment 285 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Member States ensure that all children halife-long learning involves access to formal and non-formal, public, free, inclusive and quality education at all ages, while children in particular require a needs-based design ;
Amendment 314 #
2023/2066(INI)
9. Highlights the experience of some Member States, which ensure that textbooks and teaching materials, as well as school transport and meals, are provided free oflunch-time supervision and care and after school homework supervision are provided free of charge or subject to a minimal charge; recommends extending this system to all Member States as a means of ensuring equal access to education and care and as an important means of financial support for the most vulnerable of families ;
Amendment 339 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the right to affordable comfortable housing that meets the needs of children and their families and ensures their well- being, privacy and quality of life; calls on the Member States to promote a public housing policy that tackles property speculation and guarantees this right;
Amendment 346 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to foster programmes to monitor the prices of energy, transport and other essential goods in order to reduce the impact of the rise in the cost of living on children and their families, and in order to counteract financially if necessary;
Amendment 361 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children; calls on the Member States to develop and implement integrated prevention and protection systems for children with a view to eradicating violencein order to eliminate all shortcomings and to strengthen, increase and promote the best interests of children;
Amendment 371 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to invest in support and, follow-up, care and education for children and young asylum seekers, as well as their families, and host institutionin the accommodation/reception centres, in order to reduce inequalities and promote the social inclusion of children and their families in times of crisis;
Amendment 20 #
2023/0199(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The STEP should identify resources which should be implemented within the existing Union programmes and funds, the InvestEU, Horizon Europe, European Defence Fund and Innovation Fund. This should be accompanied by providing additional funding of EUR 10 billion. Of this, EUR 5 billion should be used to increase the endowment of the Innovation Fund46 and EUR 3 billion to increase the total amount of the EU guarantee available for the EU compartment under the InvestEU Regulation to EUR 7,5 billion,47 taking into account the relevant provisioning rate. EUR 0.5 billion should be made available to increase the financial envelope under the Horizon Europe Regulation,48 whichIn order to create additional sustainable and socially acceptable jobs in Europe, this should be accompanied by providing funding through the EU budget, in principle doubling the respective national funding. Support should be amendtiered accordingly; and EUR 1.5 billion to the European Defence Fund.49 __________________ 46 Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32). 47 Regulation (EU) 2021/523 establish to geographically balanced production sites for various semiconductors. In doing so, the InvestEU Programme (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 30). 48 Regulation (EU) 2021/695 establishing Horizon Europe (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 1). 49 Regulation (EU) 2021/697 establishing the European Defense Fund (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 149.)EU must ensure unbureaucratic and immediate support.
Amendment 180 #
2022/0400(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) Access to equality bodies’ services and publications on an equal basis for all should be guaranteed. For that purpose, potential barriers to access to equality bodies’ services should be identified and addressed. Services should be free of charge for complainants. Member States should also make sure that the services of equality bodies are available to all potential victims throughout their territory, for example through the establishment of local offices, including mobile ones, the organisation of local campaigns or cooperation with local delegates, business chambers or civil society organisations.
Amendment 271 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 21
Article 21
(7a) Article 21 is replaced by the following: "Member States shall keep a register of recognised cases of asbestosis and mesothelioma. -related occupational diseases. An indicative list of diseases that can be caused by asbestos exposure is set out in Annex 1. In order for illnesses caused by asbestos to be recognized as an occupational disease, Member States immediately introduce the reversal of the burden of proof." Or. en (See wording of Article 21 of Directive 2009/148/EC)
Amendment 42 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital -1 (new)
(-1) The European Parliament welcomes the Commission’s proposal for updated employment guidelines for the Member States, in particular its strong focus on the post-COVID 19 environment, on ensuring that the green and digital transitions are socially fair and economically sustainable, and on recent policy initiatives in response to the Russian invasion in the Ukraine. In order to create synergies and competitive, resilient and ambitious policies at Member State level, it is welcome if the guidelines link the Union’s headline targets on employment, skills and poverty reduction for 2030, agreed by EU Leaders at the Porto Summit in 2021.
Amendment 43 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 1
(1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employmenthigh levels of employment, job quality and particularly for promoting a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as labour markets that are future-oriented and responsive to economic changeimproving working conditions, by supporting and complementing the activities of the Member States as well as labour markets that are future-oriented and responsive to economic change, inclusive, competitive and resilient and that offer opportunities for mobility and professional progress, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, balanced growth, a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and are to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council, taking into account national practices related to the responsibilities of management and labour.
Amendment 55 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 3
(3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented policy coordination instruments for economic and employment policies. As part of those instruments, the Guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States (the ‘Guidelines’) set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the Broad Guidelines for the Economic Policies of the Member States and of the Union set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/11845 , form the Integrated Guidelines. They are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated European and national policies and reforms are to constitute an appropriate overall sustainable economic and employment policy mix, which should achieve positive spill over effects while avoiding any negative economic or social consequences. __________________ 5 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27).
Amendment 59 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) In order to ensure further economic and social progress and inclusive, competitive and resilient labour markets in the Union, Member States should promote inclusive education, training and upskilling, as well as lifelong learning, future-oriented quality dual education and improved career opportunities through recognising the skills and competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning.
Amendment 63 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 4
(4) The Guidelines are consistent with the Stability and Growth Pact and broad economic policy guidelines, existing Union legislation and various Union initiatives, including Council Directive of 20 July 20016 , Council Recommendations of 10 March 20147 , 15 February 20168 , 19 December 20169 , 15 March 201810 , 22 May 201811 , 22 May 201912 , 8 November 201913 , 30 October 202014 , 24 November 202015 , 29 November 202116 Commission Recommendation of 4 March 202117 , Council Recommendation of 14 June 202118 , Council Resolution of 26 February 202119 ,Commission Communication of 9 December 202120 , Decision of the EU Parliament and the Council of 22 December 202121 [, the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on adequate minimum wages in the European Union22 , the Proposal for a Council Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality23 , the Proposal for a Council Recommendation on a European approach to micro-credentials for lifelong learning and employability24 , the Proposal for a Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts25 , the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms26 , the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving working conditions in platform work27 and the Proposal for a Council Recommendation on learning for environmental sustainability28 ]. __________________ 6 Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof (OJ L 212 , 07/08/2001 P. 0012 – 0023) 7 Council Recommendation of 10 March 2014 on a Quality Framework for Traineeships (OJ C 88, 27.3.2014, p. 1). 8 Council Recommendation of 15 February 2016 on the integration of the long-term unemployed into the labour market (OJ C 67, 20.2.2016, p. 1). 9 Council Recommendation of 19 December 2016 on Upskilling Pathways: New Opportunities for Adults (OJ C 484, 24.12.2016, p. 1). 10 Council Recommendation of 15 March 2018 on a European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships (OJ C 153, 2.5.2018, p. 1). 11 Council Recommendation of 22 May 2018 on key competences for lifelong learning (OJ C 189, 4.6.2018, p. 1). 12 Council Recommendation of 22 May 2019 on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Systems (OJ C 189, 5.6.2019, p. 4). 13 Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self- employed (OJ C 387, 15.11.2019, p. 1). 14 Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and replacing the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee (OJ C 372, 4.11.2020, p. 1). 15 Council Recommendation of 24 November 2020 on vocational education and training (VET) for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience (OJ C 417, 2.12.2020, p. 1). 16 Council Recommendation of 29 November 2021 on blended learning approaches for high-quality and inclusive primary and secondary education (OJ C 66, 26.2.2021, p. 1–21) 17 Commission Recommendation (EU) 2021/402 of 4 March 2021 on an effective active support to employment following the COVID-19 crisis (EASE) (OJ L 80, 8.3.2021, p. 1). 18 Council Recommendation (EU) 2021/1004 of 14 June 2021 establishing a European Child Guarantee (OJ L 223, 22.6.2021, p. 14). 19 Council Resolution on a strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training towards the European Education Area and beyond (2021-2030) (2021/C66/01) (OJ C 66, 26.2.2021, p. 1–21) 20 Commission Communication (EU) 2021/778 of 9 December 2021 on building an economy that works for people: an action plan for the social economy 21 Decision (EU) 2021/2316 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 December 2021 on a European Year of Youth (2022) (OJ L 462, 28.12.2021, p. 1– 9) 22 COM/2020/682 final 23 COM/2021/801 final 24 COM/2021/770 final 25 COM/2021/773 final 26 COM/2021/93 final 27 COM/2021/762 final 28 COM/2022/11 final
Amendment 68 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 5
(5) The European Semester combines the different instruments in an overarching framework for integrated multilateral coordination and surveillance of economic and employment policies. While pursuing environmental sustainability, productivity, fairness and stability, the European Semester integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, including principle 11 on childcare and support to children/families, and of its monitoring tool, the Social Scoreboard, and provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. It supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals including SDG 4 on quality education. Inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all should be ensured and anchored in the Union employment and social policies. The Union’s and Member States’ economic and employment policies should go hand in hand with Europe’s fair and just transition to a climate neutral, environmentally sustainable and digital economy, improve competitiveness, ensure adequate working condition, economically competitive, socially inclusive and digital economy, ensuring upward social convergence, improving sustainable competitiveness, supporting SMEs, including microenterprises, ensuring decent working conditions and resilient national welfare systems, fostering innovation, promoteing social justice and equal opportunities, reducing poverty, investing in youth, as well as tackleing inequalities and regional disparities.
Amendment 74 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 6
(6) Climate change and environment- related challenges, the need to accelerate energy independence and ensure Europe’s open strategic autonomy, globalisation, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, an increase in teleworking, the platform economy and demographic change are transforming European economies and societies. Demographic change requires to improve safety and health at work through updates to the relevant directives and to strengthen occupational medical services, including access to regular check-ups for all workers that wish to do so. The EU must follow-up on the European Framework for Action on Mental Health. Uniform EU framework conditions, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, should support the Member States to create equal quality standards and ensure free access to safety and health for all workers. The Union and its Member States are to work together to effectively and proactively address those structural developments and adapt existing systems as needed, recognising the close interdependence of the Member States’ economies and labour markets, and related policies. This requires coordinated, ambitious and effective policy action at both Union and national levels, in accordance with the TFEU and the Union’s provisions on economic governance, while sustainably implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights. Such policy action should encompass and the objectives set by its Action Plan. Such policy action should encompass the creation of the infrastructure necessary for linking the people and businesses of Europe and lead to European added value through a boost in sustainable private and public investment, a renewed commitment to appropriately sequenced reforms that enhance economic growth, the creation of quality jobs and foster trade and entrepreneurship by reducing red tape for businesses, especially for family enterprises and SMEs, furthermore that enhance the creation of more jobs as well as quality jobs and secure jobs, prosperity, productivity, adequate working conditions, social and territorial cohesion, upward convergence, resilience and the exercise of fiscal responsibility, with support from existing EU funding programmes, and in particular the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Cohesion Policy Funds (including the European Social Fund Plus and the European Regional Development Fund) as well as the Just Transition Fund. It should combine supply- and demand-side measures, while taking into account their environmental, employment and social impacts. , while making the EU’s fiscal rules simpler, more coherent, more predictable and more easily enforceable without watering down the Stability and Growth Pact.
Amendment 85 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Family-friendly policies and social investments in children, protecting them from poverty and helping all children to access their rights, such as the availability of good quality childcare and early childhood education and training, are essential to ensure children’s future as adults, sustainable development through avoiding long-term costs for society and inclusive cohesive societies, and result in people being more creative and feeling more comfortable; investments of EU funds and soft instruments should be used more extensively and strategically for guaranteeing the social rights of children (in particular those in vulnerable situations) and combating child poverty and social exclusion as well as harmful negative trends with regard to demographic change; for the European Child Guarantee to be of real added value and reach the ultimate objective of getting at least 5 million children out of poverty by 2030, it should encourage Member States to make combating child poverty a priority and support them in implementing the European Child Guarantee via selective, high-profile, clear-cut, concrete and relatively operational objectives as well as concrete policy levers and policy outcomes - for which the political authorities can be held accountable;
Amendment 95 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Recital 11
(11) Discrimination in all its forms should be tackled, gender equality ensured and employment of young people promoted and supported. Access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion, including that of children and Roma people, should be reduced, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and adequate and inclusive social protection systems32 , and by removing barriers to inclusive and future-oriented education, training and labour-market participation, including through investments in early childhood education and care, and in digital and green skills. TMember States should focus their efforts on the submission and effective implementation of the European Child Guarantee and their National Action Plans that are to ensure free access for all children to the five key social rights (healthcare, education, childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition), including children fleeing Ukraine, on an equal footing with their peers in the host Member State. The European Parliament has on repeated occasions requested and increased funding of the European Child Guarantee with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion32a.The European Child Guarantee should be mainstreamed across all policy sectors and funding for children’s rights should be prioritised while making full use of existing Union policies and funds. Member States should further boost investment in sustainable, quality jobs and adopt a comprehensive approach for supporting parents of children in need; the European Child Guarantee should also be used to relink European citizens to Europe, by introducing, under the leadership of and in close cooperation with national coordinators, European support measures for families with children, who constitute the cohesion basis of our societies and (re)invest into the economy, thereby benefiting European citizens altogether; timely and equal access to affordable long- term care and healthcare services, including prevention and healthcare promotion, are particularly relevant, also in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 and in a context of ageing societies. The potential of persons with disabilities to contribute to economic growth and social development should be further realised. As new economic and business models take hold in workplaces throughout the Union, employment relationships are also changing. Member States should ensure that employment relationships stemming from new forms of work maintain and strengthen Europe’s social model. __________________ 32 Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self- employed, 2019/C 387/01
Amendment 111 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 1
Member States should actively promote a sustainablfull quality employment based on a sustainable and competitive social market economy and facilitate and support investment in the creation of more jobs and quality jobs, also taking advantage of the potential linked to the digital and green transitions, in light of the 2030 EU headline target on employment. To that end, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people as well as implement measures with regard to retention of staff, foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self- employment and, in particular, support the creation and growth of small and medium- sized enterprises, including through access to finance. Member States should actively promote the development and tap the full potential of the social economy, foster social innovation and social enterprises, and encourage those business models creating quality job opportunities and generating social benefits at local level, in particular in the circular economy and in areas most affected by the transition to a green economy due to their sectoral specialisation,.
Amendment 115 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 2
Following the COVID-19 crisis, well- designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements should also facilitate and support restructuring processes, on top of preserving employment when appropriate, helping the modernisation of the economy, including via associated skills development. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures should be considered in order to support job creation and transitions, and address labour and skill shortages and close the gap between education and the labour market, also in light of the digital and green transformations as well as of the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Member States should be encouraged to invest in human capital and knowledge inclusive education and be supported in coordinating best practices at EU level. EU education programs should be strengthened, new digital platforms for cross-border education and job opportunities should be developed and further rapid progress in harmonizing and mutual recognition of diplomas be made, facilitating fair labour mobility and being active in different Member States. The Erasmus programme must be made more accessible to all social groups.
Amendment 131 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 1
In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change and the Ukrainian war, Member States should promote sustainability, productivity, employability and human capital, fostering acquisition of skills and competences throughout people’s lives and responding to current and future labour-market needs, in light of the 2030 EU headline target on skills. Member States should also adapt and invest in their public and private education and training systems to provide high quality and inclusive education, including vocational education and training, access to digital learning, and language training (e.g. in the case of refugees including from Ukraine). Member States should work together with the social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in education and training systems and improve their quality and labour-market relevance, also with a view to enabling the green and digital transitions, addressing existing skills mismatches and preventing the emergence of new shortages, in particular for activities related to REPowerEU, such as renewable energy deployment or buildings’ renovation. Particular attentionMember States should address the needs of areas and sectors with structural skills shortages, inter alia with a view to simultaneously enabling the green, technological and digital transitions. Member States should support investment in skills development of their workforce and the ESF must be used to help young people increase their qualifications, and promote future- oriented quality dual education systems in Member States. A significant part of the funds provided by the Recovery Plan in the framework of the Next Generation EU instrument should be spent on upskilling and lifelong learning. Member States should be encouraged in adapting and modernising their education and training systems through future oriented digitalisation, and by developing a framework encouraging companies to hire young graduates. Furthermore, Member States should support investment in decent working conditions to attract qualified workers. Particular attention should be paid to care workers to ensure they have access to recognised quality professional training and qualifications and career development, as well as to their employers facing challenges in the recruitment and retention of qualified staff. Particular attention also should be paid to challenges faced by the teaching profession, including by investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital competences. Education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, including basic and digital skills as well as transversal competences, to lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life. Member States should seek to strengthen the provision of individual training entitlements and ensure their transferability during professional transitions, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, as well as a reliable system of training quality assessment. Member States should deliver on the potential of micro-credentials to support lifelong learning and employability. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour-market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated guidance and counselling, with a view to supporting fair and just transitions for all, strengthening social outcomes, addressing labour-market shortages and skills mismatches, improving the overall resilience of the economy to shocks and making potential adjustments easier.
Amendment 140 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex I – Guideline 6 – paragraph 2
Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training systems. In particular, children should be provided equal access to good quality early childhood education and care, in line with the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support access to education of children from remoted areas, increase the attractiveness of vocational education and training (VET), access to and completion of tertiary education, facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through remunerated quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as increase adult participation in continuing learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Taking into account the new requirements of digital, green and ageing societies, Member States should strengthen work-based learning in their VET systems, including through remunerated quality and effective apprenticeships, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour- market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills monitoring and forecasting; make skills more visible and qualifications comparable, including those acquired abroad; and increase opportunities for recognising and validating skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training. They should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible continuous VET. Member States should invest in jobs creation and labour markets and also support low- skilled adults by helping them to gain access to the labour market to maintain or develop their long- term employability by boosting access to and uptake of quality learning opportunities, through the implementation of Upskilling Pathways Recommendation including a skills assessment, an offer of education and training matching labour- market opportunities, and the validation and recognition of the skills acquired.
Amendment 149 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 3
Member States should provide unemployed and inactive people with effective, timely, coordinated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job search, training, requalification and access to other enabling services, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups and people particularly affected by the green and digital transitions. Comprehensive strategies that include in-depth individual assessments of unemployed people should be pursued as soon as possible, at the latest after 182 months of unemployment, with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long- term and structural unemployment. Youth unemployment and the issue of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) should continue to be addressed through prevention of early school leaving, including apprenticeships, and structural improvement of the school- to-work transition, including through the full implementation of the reinforced Youth Guarantee, which should also importantly support quality youth employment opportunities in the post- pandemic recovery. In addition, and in the light of the European Year of the Youth 2022, Member States should boost efforts notably at highlighting how the green and digital transitions offer a renewed perspective for the future and opportunities to counter the negative impact of the pandemic on young people.
Amendment 154 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 4
Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, accessing and participationg in the labour market, in particular for low- income earners, second earners and those furthest away from the labour market including people with a migrant background and marginalised Roma. In view of high labour shortages in certain occupations and sectors, Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply, notably through promoting adequate wages and decent working conditions, as well as effective active labour market policies. Member States should also support an adapted work environment for persons with disabilities, including through targeted financial support and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society.
Amendment 160 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 5
The demonstrated gender employment and pay gaps should be tackled. Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including through ensuring equal opportunities and career progression and eliminating barriers to access to leadership at all levels of decision making. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, quality long-term care and early childhood education and care services. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements in order to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between women and men.
Amendment 174 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
Policies should aim to improve and support labour-market participation, matching and transitions, including in disadvantaged regions. Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially vulnerable groups such as lower-skilled people, people with a migrant background, including persons under a temporary protection status, and marginalised Roma. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour-market policies by increasing their targeting, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and adequate income support for the unemployed, whilst they are seeking workemployment with quality working conditions and based on their rights and responsibilities. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, respond to current and future labour-market needs, and implement performance-based management, supported also via digitalisation.
Amendment 176 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3
Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of reasonable and adequate duration, in line with their contributions and national eligibility rules. Unemployment benefits should not disincentivise a prompt return to employment and should be accompanied by active labour market policies.
Amendment 178 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 4
Amendment 201 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
Member States should modernise social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fostering social inclusion and upward social mobility,convergence and mobility, supporting and incentivising labour market participation and access to quality employment, supporting social investment, fighting poverty and addressing inequalities, including through the national design of their tax and benefit systems and by assessing the distributional impact of policies. Complementing universal approaches with selective ones will improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. The modernisation of social protection systems should also aim to improve their resilience to multi-faceted challenges.
Amendment 206 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 3
Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion: adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services, to meet individual needs. Social protection systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by encouraging and supporting people to actively participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services.
Amendment 208 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 4
The availability of affordable, accessible and good quality services such as early childhood education and care, out-of- school care, education, training, housing, and health and long-term care is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities. PIn line with the 2030 EU headline target on poverty reduction, particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, including in-work poverty, in line with the 2030 EU headline target on poverty reduction. Especially. Especially protection from child poverty should be addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, in particular through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee and an increase of the dedicated budget to at least EUR 20 billion, as repeatedly requested by the European Parliament1a. Also, all Member States should spend more than the minimum of 5% of their allocated funds under the European Social Fund Plus on fighting child poverty and promote childrens’ wellbeing by ensuring their free, equal and effective access to high quality healthcare, (early) education and care, school-based activities and at least one healthy meal each school day, childcare, decent housing and healthy nutrition.
Amendment 216 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 5
Member States should ensure that everyone, including children, has access to essential services of good quality. For those in need or in a vulnerable situation, Member States should guarantee access to adequate social housing or housing assistance. They should ensure a clean and fair energy transition and address energy poverty as an increasingly important form of poverty due to rising energy prices, partly linked to the war in Ukraine, including, where appropriate, via targeted temporary income support measures. Inclusive housing renovation policies should also be implemented. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account in relation to those services. Homelessness should be tackled specifically. Member States should ensure timelyeffective and equal access to affordable preventive and curative health care and long-term care of good quality, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term.
Amendment 221 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 6
In line with the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive43 , Member States should offer an adequate level of protection to refugees from Ukraine, including rthird-country nationals legally residing in Ukraine and who are unable to return in safe and durable conditions to their country or region of origin. Residency rights, access and integration to the labour market, access to education, training and housing, as well as access to social security systems, medical care social welfare or other assistance, and means of subsistence should be provided in this regard. Children should be ensured access to childhood education and care and essential services in line with the European Child Guarantee. For unaccompanied children and teenagers, Member States should implement the right to legal guardianship. __________________ 43 Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof.
Amendment 227 #
2022/0165(NLE)
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 7
In a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed, providing equal opportunities for women and men to acquire and accrue pension rights, including through supplementary schemes to ensure an adequate income in old age. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and measures that extend working lives, such as by raising the effective retirement age, notably by facilitating labour market participation of older personand employability of older persons through specific digital skills trainings and awareness-raising aimed at changing the perceptions of companies, and should be framed within active ageing strategies. Member States should establish a constructive dialogue with social partners and other relevant stakeholders, and allow for an appropriate phasing in of the reforms.
Amendment 308 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In order to achieve the objectives of this Regulation, it should cover providers of services that have the potential to be misused for the purpose of online child sexual abuse. As they are increasingly misused for that purpose, those services should include publicly available interpersonal communications services, such as messaging services and web-based e-mail services, in so far as those service as publicly available. As services which enable direct interpersonal and interactive exchange of information merely as a minor ancillary feature that is intrinsically linked to another service, such as chat and similar functions as part of gaming, image-sharing and video-hosting are equally at risk of misuse, they should also be covered by this Regulation. Online search engines and other artificial intelligence services should also be covered. However, given the inherent differences between the various relevant information society services covered by this Regulation and the related varying risks that those services are misused for the purpose of online child sexual abuse and varying ability of the providers concerned to prevent and combat such abuse, the obligations imposed on the providers of those services should be differentiated in an appropriate mannerand targeted manner. Considering the fundamental importance of the right to respect for private life and the right to protection of personal data, as guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights, nothing in this regulation should be interpreted as prohibiting or compromising the integrity and confidentiality of end-to-end encrypted content and communications.
Amendment 333 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse effectively, providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services should take effective and reasonable measures to mitigate the risk of their services being misused for such abuse, as identified through the risk assessment. Providers subject to an obligation to adopt mitigation measures pursuant to Regulation (EU) …/… [on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC] may consider to which extent mitigation measures2022/2065 may consider to which extent mitigation measures adopted to comply with that obligation. Mitigation measures necessary for the fulfilment of the obligations in this regulation may include the design of online interfaces or parts thereof with the highest level of privacy, safety and security for children by default, the adoapted to comply with that obligation, which may includeation of standards for protection of children, participation in codes of conduct for protecting children, targeted measures to protect the rights of the child, including age verification and-appropriate parental control tools, may also. Enabling flagging and/or notifying mechanisms and self-reporting functionalities, where possible with the use of AI, shall serve to address the risk identified in the specific risk assessment pursuant to this Regulation, and to which extent further targeted mitigation measures may be required to comply with this Regulation.
Amendment 353 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) With a view to ensuring effective prevention and fight against online child sexual abuse, when mitigating measures are deemed insufficientthe provider refuses to cooperate by putting in place the mitigating measures aimed to limit the risk of misuse of a certain service for the purpose of online child sexual abuse, the Coordinating Authorities designated by Member States under this Regulation should be empowered to request, as a measure of last resort, the issuance of detection orders. In order to avoid any undue interference with fundamental rights and to ensure proportionality, that power should be subject to a carefully balanced set of limits and safeguards. For instance, considering that child sexual abuse material tends to be disseminated through hosting services and publicly available interpersonal communications services, and that solicitation of children mostly takes place in publicly available interpersonal communications services, it should only be possible to address detection orders to providers of such services. Such detection orders shall be issued with regards to the technical capacity of the provider, and shall in no way be intrepreted as prohibiting, or compromising the integrity and confidentiality of, end-to-end encrypted content and communications.
Amendment 373 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) In addition, to avoid undue interference with fundamental rights and ensure proportionality, when it is established that those requirements have been met and a detection order is to be issued, it should still be ensured that the detection order is targeted and specifiedjustified, proportionate and related only to an identifiable part of the specific service, user or group of users, as well as targeted and limited in time so as to ensure that any such negative consequences for affected parties do not go beyond what is strictly necessary to effectively address the significant risk identified. This should concern, in particular, a limitation to an identifiable part or component of the service where possible without prejudice to the effectiveness of the measure, such as specific types of channels of a publicly available interpersonal communications service, or to specific users or specific groups of users, to the extent that they can be taken in isolation for the purpose of detection, as well as the specification of the safeguards additional to the ones already expressly specified in this Regulation, such as independent auditing, the provision of additional information or access to data, or reinforced human oversight and review, and the further limitation of the duration of application of the detection order that the Coordinating Authority deems necessary. To avoid unreasonable or disproportionate outcomes, such requirements should be set after an objective and diligent assessment conducted on a case-by-case basis.
Amendment 383 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The measures taken by providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services to execute detection orders addressed to them should remain strictly limited to what is specified in this Regulation and in the detection orders issued in accordance with this Regulation. In order to ensure the effectiveness of those measures, allow for tailored solutions, remain technologically neutral, and avoid circumvention of the detection obligations, those measures should be taken regardless of the technologies used by the providers concerned in connection to the provision of their services. Therefore, this Regulation leaves to the provider concerned the choice of the technologies to be operated to comply effectively with detection orders and should not be understood as incentivising or disincentivising the use of any given technology, provided that the technologies and accompanying measures meet the requirements of this Regulation. That includes the use ofIn accordance with Article 6a, nothing in this regulation shall be interpreted as prohibiting, or compromising the integrity and confidentiality of, end-to-end encryptied con technology, which is an important tool to guarantee the security and confidentiality of the communications of users, including those of childrennt or communications through client-side scanning with side- channel leaks or other measures by which the provider of a hosting service or a provider of interpersonal communication services provides third party actors with access to the end-to-end encrypted content and communications. When executing the detection order, providers should take all available safeguard measures to ensure that the technologies employed by them cannot be used by them or their employees for purposes other than compliance with this Regulation, nor by third parties, and thus to avoid undermining the security and confidentiality of the communications of users.
Amendment 389 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) End-to-end encryption is an essential tool to guarantee the security, privacy and confidentiality of the communications between users, including those of children. Any weakening of the end-to-end encryption's effect could potentially be abused by malicious third parties. Nothing in this Regulation should therefore be interpreted as prohibiting or compromising the integrity and confidentiality of end-to-end encrypted content and communications. As compromising the integrity of end-to-end encrypted content and communications shall be understood the processing of any data, that would compromise or put at risk the integrity and confidentiality of the aforementioned end-to-end encrypted content. Nothing in this regulation shall thus be interpreted as justifying client-side scanning with side-channel leaks or other measures by which the provider of a hosting service or a provider of interpersonal communication services provide third party actors access to the end-to-end encrypted content and communications.
Amendment 651 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b – indent 4 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b – indent 4 a (new)
- functionalities enabling age- appropriate parental controls, including with the use of AI;
Amendment 653 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b – indent 4 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b – indent 4 b (new)
- functionalities enabling self- reporting, including with the use of AI;
Amendment 695 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The provider, where applicable, shall assess, in a separate section of its risk assessment, the voluntary use of specific technologies for the processing of personal and other data to the extent strictly necessary to detect, to report and to remove online child sexual abuse material from its services. Such voluntary use of specific technologies shall under no circumstances undermine the integrity and confidentiality of end-to-end encrypted content and communcations.
Amendment 862 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) take reasonable measures to prevent child users from accessing the software applications in relation to which they have identified a significant risk of use of the service concerned for the purpose of the solicitation of children; or where:
Amendment 864 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – point i (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – point i (new)
i) the developer of the software application has decided and informed the software application store that its terms and conditions of use do not permit child users,
Amendment 865 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii (new)
ii) the software application has an appropriate age rating model in place, or
Amendment 866 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii (new)
iii) the developer of the software application has requested the software application store not to allow child users to download its software applications.
Amendment 875 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
Article6a End-to-end encrypted services Nothing in this Regulation shall be interpreted as prohibiting or compromising the integrity and confidentiality of end-to-end encrypted content and communications. As compromising the integrity of end-to-end encrypted content and communcations shall be understood the processing of any data that would compromise or put at risk the integrity and confidentiality of the content and communications in the end- to-end encryption. Nothing in this regulation shall thus be interpreted as justifying client-side scanning with side- channel leaks or other measures by which the provider of a hosting service or a provider of interpersonal communications services provides third party actors access to the end-to-end encrypted content.
Amendment 1017 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
The Coordinating Authority of establishment when requesting the issuance of detection orders, and the competent judicial or independent administrative authority when issuing the detection order, shall, in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, target and specify it in such a manner that the negative consequences referred to in paragraph 4, first subparagraph, point (b),2 remain limited to what is strictly necessary, justifiable and proportionate to effectively address the significant risk referred to in point (a) thereof, and limit the detection order to an identifiable part or component of a service, such as a specific channel of communication or a specific group of users identified with particularity for which the significant risk has been identified. In accordance with Article 6a, no such detection order shall be interpreted as prohibiting, or compromising the integrity and confidentiality of, end-to-end encrypted content and communications.
Amendment 1 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
- having regard to Articles 3, 5 and 5Article 6(1) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),
Amendment 3 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
- having regard to Articles 6, 9, 145, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 165, 166, 168, 174 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 8 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)
Citation 24 a (new)
- having regard to the announcement by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen in ‘A Union that strives for more: My agenda for Europe - Political Guidelines For The Next European Commission 2019-2024’: ‘To support every child in need, I will create the European Child Guarantee, picking up on the idea proposed by the European Parliament’,
Amendment 9 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25
Citation 25
- having regard to the Commission communication of 26 April 2017 entitled ‘Establishing a European Pillar of Social Rights’ (COM(2017)0250), and in particular Principle 11, reinforcing the importance of promoting children’s rights,
Amendment 10 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
- having regard to the European Council conclusions of 8 June 2020 on “Demographic challenges - the way ahead”,
Amendment 11 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)
Citation 25 b (new)
- having regard to Council conclusions of 20 June 2011on the reconciliation of work and family life in the context of demographic change (11841/11),
Amendment 12 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)
Citation 26 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission Delegated Regulation480/2014 supplementing Regulation 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council,
Amendment 14 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission report of 29 May 2013 on Barcelona objectives -The development of childcare facilities for young children in Europe with a view to sustainable and inclusive growth (COM (2013)322),
Amendment 20 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 60 a (new)
Citation 60 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission report on equality between women and men 2014,
Amendment 21 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 61 a (new)
Citation 61 a (new)
Amendment 34 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the current crisis has had a huge impact on our working habits - flexible working arrangements, such as remote work and flexible working hours have become the norm and the use of digital technologies is on the rise; whereas their use in the future would be economically and socially beneficial in the long run, but brings about very challenging issues like, social isolation, data protection, workers' health and the protection of employees and workers' rights;
Amendment 35 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas in particular the pay gap, the employment gap as well as the social protection gap between men and women, disproportionate burden on women in the provision of care, strengthening and equality of families, youth unemployment, labour market segmentation and inequalities, in-work poverty, productivity, wage growth, pensions, social protection and health care systems were areas for significant improvement even before COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 36 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas, since long, the world of work is undergoing transformative change in the form of shortage of work, concentration of work, increased demands, more controlling, more flexible, precarious employment relationships and seasonal work;
Amendment 37 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas this transformative change is driven by the principle of profit maximisation instead of people, technological innovation, digitization, demographic shifts, climate change, and globalisation;
Amendment 45 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. while investment in skills, qualifications and formal training for adults strengthens the employability of workers, wage developments and business competitiveness;
Amendment 49 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas social investments are essential to ensure sustainable development and inclusive societies; whereas social investments such as the availability of childcare and early childhood education and training result in people being more productive and feeling more comfortable;
Amendment 51 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas implementation of the 2013 EU Recommendation on investing in children has not had as great an impact as hoped for; whereas the European Semester has not sufficiently prioritised tackling child poverty and social exclusion and EU funds have not been used as extensively or strategically as they could have been;
Amendment 53 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas, as was the case with the Council Recommendation on a Youth Guarantee, even if it remains a soft instrument, the introduction of new (Council) Recommendation on an EU Child Guarantee building on the existing legal frameworks and policy instruments and especially the 2013 Recommendation on investing in children, would be an effective way to ensure that Member States make visible a high-level political commitment to guaranteeing the social rights of children(particular those in vulnerable situations) and combating child poverty and social exclusion; whereas implementing this via some selective, high-profile, clear-cut, concrete and relatively operational objectives as well as concrete policy levers and policy outcomes - for which the political authorities can be held accountable - would then become a priority for the European Member States;
Amendment 66 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas ECB programs did not reach the real economy and simultaneously a lot of capital was extracted from the real economy; whereas this dual development contributed to the vulnerability of our societies that manifested itself during the health crisis;
Amendment 114 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the COVID-19 has thrown a spotlight on the future importance of health and safety in the workplace, and the need to improve working conditions as well as working time conditions and adapt them to the new reality, including flexible work arrangements (with workers being given more freedom to organise their work) and work-life balance, all of which are important EU policy objectives;
Amendment 124 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas current and traditional demographic trends in the EU are negative; whereas COVID-19 puts additional burden on most vulnerable groups of society and sound families have proven again to be a fundamental shelter against poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 129 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note of the Commission’s 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern that Member States have made limited or no progress in six out of 10 CSRs addressed to them in 2019; calls for the implementation rate of the country specific recommendations to be stepped up in the euro area and beyond; urges the Commission to enhance the CSRs for eurozone members by creating a matrix framework where social policies related to the European Pillar of Social Rights, such as inclusive access to education, health, nutrition, employment and housing, and the preservation of social rights, are analysed by social segment, for example children, young people, older people (in the field of long- term care for elderly people), minorities, migrants and people with disabilities, thereby creating a much more accurate image of the economic and social health of the Member States, and to examine the possible extension of this new component of the CSRs to non-Eurozone members; points out that CSRs should be coherent with economic, social and environmental EU objectives and should reinforce rather than contradict each other; calls on the Commission and the Member States to define a European sustainability strategy to overcome social, economic and climate challenges; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce social rights by proposing legislation, including financial instruments where appropriate and following review, to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights within the limits of their respective competences as laid down in the Treaties and in compliance with subsidiarity;
Amendment 151 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that in the current crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact has proven to be inadequate, not allowing Member States the fiscal space they need to absorb imbalances and mitigate the social consequences, which made the activation of the escape clause necessary; demands that social and ecological objectives be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability; in order to preserve jobs, help companies and support a robust recovery; demands a supportive fiscal stance (active fiscal policy) to currently be warranted in all Member States to facilitate the recovery of consumption, investment and growth; demands for lending and financial support to specific sectors including the health sector, ideally via Manacle-Bonds1; demands that social, economic and ecological objectives should have equal priority and be given the same legal enforceability as fiscal consolidation and financial stability within the next budget; and that the European Semester should be enhanced to include a social dimension all throughout its cycle involving the competent bodies of the EU and Member States which deal with social policies; demands an ambitious MFF that will meet the needs of existing and new programmes; demands that new own resources and the abolishment of rebates are put in place; _______________________________ 1A concept developed by the Family Party of Germany to fund projects to tackle the impact of COVID-19
Amendment 164 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that, despite the importance of sound and responsible fiscal policies, budgetary stability should not be detrimental to public investment, especially in education, social and healthcare systems; points out that our common human values should be guiding our debates on the budget and we should aim for a budget that will lead to an economy that reflects this notion better and will lead to a more humane Europe; calls for enhancing the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of how EU funds are used so as to improve effective use and public interest;
Amendment 174 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to meet international legal obligations in relation to children’s rights that Member States (as well as the EU as a whole for some of them) are committed to upholding; calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, calls for using opportunities in the 2021-2027 MFF for investing in children and funds to be employed to develop the potential added value of the EU Child Guarantee when combating poverty as well as harmful negative trends with regard to demographic change in Europe; demands to use soft law initiatives encouraging and incentivising Member States (through peer pressure rather than obligations) to establish European and national action plans to ensure children’s access to the five key social rights (access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition); asks for protection of families and children via the immediate introduction of a 25/25 European child maintenance allowance, an essential and long overdue measure with a view to implementing the Child Guarantee. This additional child maintenance payment must not be offset against any other benefits and would be demonstrably the largest economic development project of all time, since families would pump the additional money they receive into the economy, thereby benefiting all Europeans either directly or indirectly;
Amendment 181 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes Next Generation EU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls on the Member States to make use of the general escape clause and inv; strongly regrets that the social development procests in people and social welfare systems; calls for specific social progress plans to ensure more effective and stronger welfare statesEurope has come to a standstill, which should not be a reason to orientate Europe as a welfare state, because stronger welfare states would cement poverty in Europe; demands as Europe’s objective that the social development process should now be accelerated so that people can lead an independent, self-determined life;
Amendment 204 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s SURE proposal as an emergency measure to offer financial support with regard to EU Member States efforts to adapt or extend (to self-employed workers) their short-time work schemes in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and calls on the Member States to reach a swift agreement to allow its urgent implementation;
Amendment 208 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that financial assistance is only provided to undertakings not registered in tax havens; stresses that we need to strengthen the strategic capacity of the EU by making sure that this time the money will not disappear from Europe through outsourcing; demands to make sure that companies receiving investment through EU instruments need to meet clear benchmarks so that only companies that adhere to social standards including good and family-friendly employment practices, that have just salaries, sound finances and protect the environment are eligible for this support;
Amendment 217 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 228 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned about the increased rate of unemployment, which will especially affect youth and workers in low- skilled positions and precarious employment; calls on the Commission to propose a permanent EU unemployment reinsurance scheme and a more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States to adequately invest in effective active labour market policies to prevent long-term unemploymentand implement employment retention measures as well as to carefully design and promote flexible work arrangements with gradual reduction of weekly working hours and job sharing with full wage compensation to prevent unemployment, and in particular to invest broadly in education, training and life-long learning and especially in the upskilling and reskilling of workers and employees across our Union as ways to support economic recovery and social cohesion; stresses the need to strengthen the capacities for all people to enable them to benefit from change at work, to strengthen the institutions of work to ensure adequate protection for all workers, and to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all; equally stresses the critical role of international labour standards in advancing these goals;
Amendment 317 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Is concerned about limited intergenerational social mobility and increasing income inequality; stresses that national tax and benefit systems must be designed in a way that reduces inequalities, promotes fairness, protects families by promoting a work-life balance and provides incentives for labour market participation;
Amendment 335 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to present an EU child guarantee in 2020, a rights- based, comprehensive and integrated anti- poverty strategy, an EU framework on national homelessness strategies, to conduct a comparative study on the different minimum income schemes in the Member States, and to highlight best practice cases with a view to presenting a framework in this regard;
Amendment 371 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to improve the quality, accessibility and inclusiveness of their education systems, and to ensure high-quality basic skills training with tailored support, especially for the most marginalised groups in society; calls for the accelerated recognition of professional qualifications in the EU and the acceleration of procedures for applying for recognition of professional qualifications in order to prevent youth unemployment;
Amendment 381 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to update the Skills Agenda for Europe in order to meet the skills requirements and future challenges of the EU labour market and of the ecological and digital transition;
Amendment 390 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. States that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased health and safety risks for millions of workers; calls on the Commission to protect all workers in the workplace and to present a new Strategic Framework for Health and Safety, a directive on work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders, a directive on mental well-being at the workplace, and an EU mental health strategy;
Amendment 395 #
2020/2079(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the creation of a European Health Union, calls on the Member States to ensure access to high-quality healthcare that is affordable for all; calls for uniform framework conditions so that, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States create equal quality standards and ensure free access for all citizens;
Amendment 141 #
2019/2169(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is deeply worried about violence and harassment in the world of workthe prominence of psychological and physical violence in the European Union of diversity, particularly in the form of harmful, gender-specific norms and stereotypes: in the home. This violence affects all children and young people from all social strata and in all Member States equally, with no gender differentiation and irrespective of any migrant background; such children and young people are the future vectors of damaging, gender-specific norms and stereotypes; families should be a place of security and should not deprive children and young people of basic trust. Domestic and informal kinds of violence and particularly gender-specific norms and stereotypes deprive children and young people of their basic trust from a very early age and thereby of the chance to achieve the welcome aim of the Commission, namely that girls and boys, women and men in all their diversity shall be equal and can freely organise their lives and make full use of their potential. They lay the foundations for a continuation of the various forms of violence across society and thus also in the world of work in the European Union; Only access to intercultural education, free from gender-specific norms and stereotypes, for all children and young people can help prevent this; calls on the Commission to implement the international #WithHer campaign, which aims to combat harmful, gender-specific norms and stereotypes which perpetuate violence against girls (who become women), in the European Union, suitably adapted and in a targeted way in all the Member States, gender-neutrally for all children and young people from all social strata and irrespective of their origin; calls on the Commission to propose a directive on a holistic approach to combatting violence against women; calls on Member States to ratify and implement the Istanbul Convention and ILO Convention No 190 on violence and harassment;