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Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2023/0264(BUD)

Shadow opinions (1)

2023/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Dossiers: 2023/0264(BUD)
Documents: PDF(152 KB) DOC(70 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Dragoş PÎSLARU', 'mepid': 197663}]

Amendments (23)

Draft opinion
Recital A

~~A. whereas an aging Union population and low fertility rates are urgent concerns for every Member State;~~deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas in several Member States, with low birth rates, women and couples would wish to have children but are prevented in practice from having them, not by their own choice, but by the increasing deterioration of their living and working conditions resulting directly from so-called austerity policies that have created unemployment, precarious employment and disrespect and violation of maternity and paternity rights in the workplace, destroyed public services and hindered access to childcare facilities;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas it is crucial to guarantee women the right to work with rights and the right to be a mother, without any penalties, as women continue to be the most disadvantaged and discriminated against; whereas examples of such discrimination consist of employers’ pressure on women in job interviews, questioning the existence of children and their age, so as to condition women’s decision-making and to opt for childless and ‘more available’ workers, and the increasing economic and labour pressures on women not to take maternity leave;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas that expenditure arising from actions having military or defence implications should not be charged to the Union budget; whereas the Union budget should not be used for military, civilian- military or security research in general; whereas funds allocated for such purposes should be reallocated for strict civilian use to address root causes of migration, such as poverty and violent conflicts;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas, even taking into account the balance of personal, family and professional life, the Union budget should include an increase in investment in high- quality public care services, including public networks of nurseries and crèches and public services of free time activities for children and a public health care network, as well as the defence of public, accessible and quality health systems and a public social security system, ensuring their universality;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Recital B

~~B. whereas gender dysphoria is a rapidly growing mental health challenge, especially amongst girls;~~deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas that the economic situation favours harassment and violence in all its forms, as well as prostitution, to which women are subjected, in violation of human rights; whereas there is a need to increase public, financial and human resources to intervene among groups at risk of poverty and to address situations posing particular risks for children and young people, the elderly, or persons with disabilities, as well as those designated homeless;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Considers it immoral to use the pretext of the war in Ukraine to satisfy the greed of big agribusiness; points out that fertilisers, the raw materials for which are primarily produced by Russia, went up in price, in some cases, by more than 300 % long before the war began;

2023/07/26
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Recital C

~~C. whereas there are no scientifically demonstrated benefits to abortion, causing harm to women and men and their offspring;~~deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Ca. whereas abortion must be a voluntary decision at the request of women, freely taken, in line with medical standards based on World Health Organisation guidelines; whereas access to free safe and legal abortion services must be guaranteed;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Council to reduce budget allocations to civil societies that promote sexual and reproductive health and rights, as killing the next generation of Europeans is economically damaging;deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recommends that funds, in particular, be increased to enable the protection of motherhood, parenthood and early childhood through appropriate programmes; calls, therefore, for maternal and child health to be given particular importance in the 2024 Union budget; further recommends that funds be secured for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and breastfeeding, thus contributing to the achievement of the World Health Organisation’s objective of ensuring that, by 2025, the global rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of the baby’s life is at least 50 %, which requires, among other measures, the adequacy of the duration and remuneration of maternity and paternity leave;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the Member States to safeguard sexual and reproductive health and rights, inter alia by ensuring the existence of reproductive health programmes and services, including essential care and medicines for voluntary family planning and maternal and neonatal health;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Reiterates the need for the Union budget to play a more active role in order to guarantee free access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health and ensuring that family planning consultations are in place, specifically covering, inter alia, the issues of reproduction, preparation for childbirth, maternity and paternity, and infertility;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for specific agricultural programmes to promote, on the one hand, short marketing channels, fair prices for producers and stable and acceptable earnings for farmers and, on the other, the fair redistribution of payments between countries, types of production and producers, eliminating the current disparities and benefiting the Member States with the largest production shortfalls, as well as small and medium- sized producers, and add to the initial amount of the agricultural reserve; stresses the need to increase funding intended to mitigate the impact of crises and of volatility on agricultural markets, which have caused, and continue to cause, many small- and family-business bankruptcies, and therefore play a part in rural depopulation and the concentration of production; calls for increases to the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD);

2023/07/26
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for a similar reduction in budget allocations to civil society organisations promoting LGBTI+ ideologies, as they do not represent these diverse groups, but promote division by awarding special rights to sexual minorities;deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Demands that the creation of offers based on job insecurity be rejected; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote collective bargaining, wage valuation, the promotion of open- ended contracts and the regulation of working hours; calls on Parliament and the other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to combat precariousness by promoting collective bargaining and working with rights, and rejecting subcontracts, ensuring equal pay for equal work;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for a reduced budget for the European Institute for Gender Equality at a time when citizens are facing cost of living crises as Member States have their own centres of expertise, and equal rights are already safeguarded in national constitutions;deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that in the last decade, with the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labour and gender inequalities have intensified within and between Member States; recalls the important role played by the European Institute for Gender Equality in understanding the scale and causes of gender inequality in the Union; calls, therefore, for the budget, staff and independence of the budget to be strengthened;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) should redirect allocation away from sexual minorities and gender identities towards genuine protection of victims of violence (both men and women), persons with disabilities and vulnerable children;deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Reiterates the need for the Union budget to play a more active role in pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for it to support measures and projects aimed at eradicating female and child poverty, promoting greater and better integration into the labour market, eliminating labour and wage inequalities between men and women, improving access to and delivery of healthcare, and combating violence against women, children and young people;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Strongly urges the Commission to return to prioritising equality of opportunity for men and women, and not push an agenda of equality of outcome for all 27+ genders, including ‘non-binary’, ‘asexual’ and ‘genderfuck’;deleted

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines that any equality strategy should address all forms of violence against women, including setbacks and violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights; reiterates that access to health care and public services, including access to abortion and psychological support for women victims of violence, should be considered a priority;

2023/07/20
Committee: FEMM