7 Amendments of Radka MAXOVÁ related to 2020/2011(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority of which approximately 6 million lives in the EU; whereas about 80 % of Roma live below their country’s at-risk-of-poverty threshold; 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1 ; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2 ; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113 ; _________________ 1European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 3. 2Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies – 2019, COM(2019)0406, p. 4. 3 Roma inclusion measures reported under the EU framework for NRIS, SWD(2019) 320 final, PART 1/2, p. 18.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure the equal participation of Roma civil society organisations, experts and community members, particularly those active at local and regional level in the policy debate and in decision-making;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; calls on the Council to unblock negotiatons on the horizontal anti-discrimination directive as it is a prerequisite to achieve equality in the EU; _________________ 6 Article 3(1)(h) of Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions, to address the issue of homelessness and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls on the Member States to address the issues of housing and homelessness, through developing the social housing stock and through promoting non-discriminatory access to social housing;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Highlights the promising approaches of "housing first" initiatives to prevent and combat homelessness and housing in segregated areas and calls on Member States to consider shifting from staircase model of service provision to housing-led services, complementing provision of housing with accompanying support combining elements of employment, education, health and community development;