6 Amendments of Jiří MAŠTÁLKA related to 2008/2034(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas poverty and unemployment have been linked to poor health and poor access to health care due to factors such as poor diet, inferior living conditions in disadvantaged areas, inadequate housing, and stress,
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to provide a detailed report on whether Member States’ welfare provision (inter alia, minimum income schemes and related benefits, unemployment, invalidity and survivors benefits, statutory and supplementary pension systems, early retirement benefits) provide for incomes above the European Union’s at-risk-of poverty threshold of 60 % of national median equalised income;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Urges Member States to develop consistent policies on traineeships providing for minimum guarantees and decent remuneration and to combat current trends to disguise jobs into unpaid traineeships;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to enhance universal service obligations (such as telecommunication and postal services) in order to strengthen the accessibility and affordability of essential services and also to enhance targeted public service obligations to address vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of society;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Deplores that the goals and strategies devised by the Nice European Council of 7-9 December 2000 to achieve a decisive and measurable reduction in poverty and social exclusion by the year 2010 have not been followed up with the necessary urgency in the EU’s policy coordination package (Lisbon Strategy and Integrated Guidelines, EU Strategy on Sustainable Development, Open Method of Coordination on Social Inclusion and Social Protection) and that results are far from being satisfactorily so far;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Agrees with the Commission that the active inclusion approach must promote an integrated implementation process at EU, national, regional and local level, involving all relevant actors (social partners, NGOs, local and regional authorities etc.) and also provide for active participation and empowerment of disadvantaged people themselves in the development, management, implementation and evaluation of strategies;