Activities of Kinga GÖNCZ related to 2011/2052(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European platform against poverty and social exclusion (debate)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Advises the Commission and the Member States to make a greater effort to reduce school drop-out rates, also for disabled peoplepaying special attention to children coming from socially disadvantaged families or having serious health problems or disabilities, in addition to promoting the integration of education and work;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
– having regard to the communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on 'An EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020' (COM(2011) 173),
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)
Citation 25 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 9 March 2011 on the EU strategy on Roma inclusion ( 2010/2276(INI),x __________________ x Texts adopted, P7_TA-PROV (2011)0092
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for education, including sport and education in the arts, to be provided from the pre-school age and equally accessible to children regardless of their place of residence or their families' financial and social status, to prevent poverty from being passed on from one generation to the next;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for an intercultural, multilingual approach to be endorsed, to facilitate the educational and formative integration of ethnic minorities and migrants;
Amendment O #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Rrecommends that the Member States introduce or further develop measures designed to help people with disabilities find jobs with private companiedevelop new measures designed to help vulnerable and socially excluded groups, especially people with disabilities, find jobs with enterprises, including social economy enterprises, or public bodies, so as to promote inclusion, not least in those regions that are economically weakest and socially more vulnerable, and recommends that they implement existing legislation, such as the 2000 Employment Directive; recommends that the Member States safeguard that people with disabilities participate in education from their early childhood by lifting existing barriers and assisting them; recommends that the Member States promote access to barrier-free environments for public bodies, so as to promote inclusioneople with disabilities and pay particular attention to the situation of early childhood education and care in order to prevent instances of children with disabilities dropping out irreversibly and hopelessly at an early stage; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up exchanges of best practices and to introduce multifaceted measures for the integration of the disabled into the job market;
Amendment OO #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas a significant proportion of European Roma are marginalised and living in deplorable socio-economic conditions, and are often subject to serious discrimination and segregation in all fields of life, as are other marginalized communities,
Amendment T #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. AdvocatesRecommends the Member States to adopt a proactive decent housing policy in order to ensure universal access to decent, affordable housingquality housing at affordable prices or on preferential terms of purchase, and to prevent the loss thereof, with guaranteed access to services essential to health and safety, the lack of such housing being a serious affront to dignity, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiency in order to combat energy poverty; calls for more attention to be paid to housing for migrants, who are often exploited and forced to live in sub- standard housing; recalls Protocol 26 annexed to the Treaty of Lisbon on social housing and calls for the provisions contained therein to be respected, in particular on the Member States’ freedom to organise social housing, including the question of financing; encourages the Member States to implement special housing programmes and opportunities for homeless people, in view of guaranteeing the most basic standards of living for the most vulnerable in society;
Amendment U #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for Roma people, and the organisations that represent and work with them, to be actively involved in the elaboration and implementation of the national Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020, so as to contribute to achieving the EU poverty target; calls on the European Union and the Member States to establish the European strategy to promote Roma inclusion as soon as possible, and calls on the Member States to propose, by the end of this year, measures to promote the inclusion of Roma in accordance with the European framework for coordinating national Roma inclusion strategies presented by the Commission in April 2011; stresses that, as with the fight against poverty and social exclusion, the inclusion and integration of the Roma will require greater effort to achieve, by 2020, their full inclusion and an end to the numerous forms of discrimination to which they are subject; 16a. calls for other marginalised communities such as immigrants to be involved in all EU or Member State policies relating to their social inclusion;
Amendment V #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the fight against child poverty to focus on prevention through the provision of equal access to high-quality early childhood serviceseducation and care services, in order to prevent children from starting school life with multiple disadvantages, and to other provisions for children (activity centres during the school period and holidays, etc., extracurricular, cultural, sports activities, etc.), ensuring that the network of such services and centres covers all areas adequately; calls for financial support for proven services and the systematic integration of family-support policies in all relevant areas of activity, combining a universal approach with targeted measures for the most vulnerable families, in particular the families of handicapped children, single-parent families and large families; calls for the relationship between parents and children to be given particular attention in programmes to combat poverty and social exclusion in order to prevent children being placed in care as a consequence of severe poverty;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas a significant proportion of European Roma are marginalised and living in deplorable socio-economic conditions, and are often subject to serious discrimination and segregation in all fields of life,
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that the Member States introduce or further develop measures designed to helpsafeguard that people with disabilities findparticipate in education from their early childhood by lifting existing barriers and to assist them in finding jobs win the private companies or public bodiessector, so as to promote inclusion;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Advocates a proactive housing policy in order to ensure universal access to decent, affordable housing, and to prevent the loss thereof, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiency, which should be actively supported with European funds in a European economy which aspires to be smart and sustainable;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Advocates a proactive housing policy in order to ensure universal access to decent, affordable housing, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiency, thereby easing energy poverty;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for Roma to be involved in all EU or Member State policies relating to their social inclusion and anti-discrimination;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the fight against child poverty to focus on prevention through the provision of equal access to early childhood services (e.g. daycare services), ensuring that the network of such services covers all areas adequatelytypes of settlements in all geographic areas adequately, in order to make the participation of women having children in the labour market possible; also stresses the need of providing equal access to children to early childhood education in order to prevent them from starting school life with multiple disadvantages;