29 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2010/2039(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
– having regard to the Commission Recommendation COM(2008) 0639 of 3 October 2008 and its resolution of 6 May 2009 on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market ,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to its Written Declaration n°0111/2007 of 22 April 2008 on ending street homelessness,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, despite all the statements on eliminating poverty, social inequalities have worsened and, at the end of 2008, 17% of the population (i.e. around 85 million people) were living below the poverty threshold, even after social transfers11 , while in 2005 the figure was 16% and in 2000 it was 15% in the EU-15,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas growth and jobs alone have not succeeded in reducing poverty; whereas social transfers have a significant role to play in reducing poverty and acting as an automatic stabiliser during the crisis - reducing poverty risks by 38% (2008 data) although the degree to which they do so varies substantially across Member States, ranging from a poverty reduction effect of 50% or more in some countries to one of 17% or less in others, reflecting differences in the size of expenditure, from 12% to 30% of GDP and the efficiency and effectiveness of the social protection schemes,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas women form the majority of the population at risk of poverty, due to unemployment, non-shared caring responsibilities, precarious and low-paid jobs, wage discrimination and lower pensions,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas there are no official EU data on situations of extreme poverty such as homelessness, and it is therefore difficult to follow recent trends,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas youth unemployment has risen to unprecedented levels, reaching 21.4% in the European Union, ranging from 7.6% in the Netherlands to 44.5% in Spain and 43.8% in Latvia, and apprenticeships and internships offered to young people are often unpaid or poorly remunerated,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas the financial and economic crisis has lead to a shrinking supply of jobs, estimates pointing to more than 5 million jobs lost since September 2008, and increasing precarity,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the European Year for Combating Poverty should have a crucial impact in raising awareness and improving policy responses tof social exclusion and, promotinge active inclusion, whichensuring an adequate income, access to quality services and supportive approaches into decent work, and requires a fair redistribution of income and wealth and necessitates measures ensuring effective economic and social cohesion,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas account should be taken of the multidimensional nature of poverty and social exclusion, the existence of particularly vulnerable population groups (children, women and, elderly people, people with disabilities and others), which also include people with disabilities, immigrants, including undocumented migrants, ethnic minorities including Roma, large or single-parent families, the chronically ill and the homeless, as well as the need to incorporate action to prevent and combat poverty and exclusion in other policies, with a guarantee of quality social security and social protection systems, universal access to quality public services, high- quality jobs with rights and an income allowing people to live with dignity,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas a global objective needs to be established, particularly in the Europe 2020 strategy, prioritising economic and social cohesion and the protection of fundamental human rights, which implies a balance between economic, employment, social and environmental policies and a fair redistribution of income and wealth,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the application, increase and better use of structural funds needs to be guaranteed in order to prevent poverty, promote social inclusion and create high- quality jobs,
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need for concrete measures to effectively and significantly reduce poverty and social exclusion, ensuring a fair redistribution of income and wealth and also giving meaning and contentensuring a strong political legacy to the European Year for Combating Poverty and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including guaranteeing an adequate minimum income throughout the European Union, and working actively to promote adequate income and social protection systems globally;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Demands that real progress is made on the adequacy of Minimum Income Schemes, so as to be capable of lifting every child, adult and older person out of poverty and delivering on their right to a dignified life;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the multidimensional nature of poverty and social exclusion, and highlights the social dimensionneed to ensure the mainstreaming of social objectives and social sustainability of macroeconomic policies, as an integral part of the crisis exit strategy and economic and social cohesion, and the fact this implies changingpromoting economic and social cohesion, as an integral part of the exit strategies to the crisis and as part of the Europe 2020 strategy. This implies ensuring a cross-cutting social guideline and effective social impact assessment which ensure theat monetary priorities and policies, among others, of the Stability and Growth Pact, and also competition policies, internal market policies, and budgetary and fiscal policies; contribute and do not hinder social cohesion;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Demands that minimum income is provided as a right, that universal access and take up are guaranteed and that the minimum income may not be reduced to below the poverty threshold when conditions are imposed to individuals;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that appropriate taxation of very high salaries could contribute to the funding of social protection systems and the minimum income;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that investments in Minimum Income schemes constitute a key element in the prevention and reduction of poverty; stresses that even in times of crisis, Minimum Income schemes should not be regarded as a cost factor but as a core element of combating the crisis; stresses that early investments to combat poverty bring a major return in reducing long term costs for society;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Points to the increasing number of working poor and to the need to tackle this new challenge by combining different instruments; demands that a living wage must always be above the poverty threshold; demands that workers who for multiple reasons remain below the poverty threshold receive top-ups that are unconditional and easy to take up; points to good experiences in the United States with negative income tax to lift low wage workers above the poverty threshold;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls upon Member States to translate the EU headline target on poverty in concrete and achievable national targets on priority issues of the EU social inclusion strategy, such as an end to street homelessness by 2015 in accordance with the Written Declaration n°0111/2007;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the European Commission to present as outcome of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion a draft Council framework directive on Minimum Income based on Council Recommendation 92/441/EEC, setting out criteria for the adequacy of and the access to Minimum Income schemes;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the various experiments with minimum incomes and with a guaranteed basic income for everyone, accompanied by social integration measures, show that this is a further essentialese are effective ways of combating poverty and social exclusion; therefore calls on the European Commission to prepare an initiative supporting furtheser experiments, taking into account bestproven practices and ensuring an adequate minimumchampioning various models for the introduction of a minimum or basic income throughout the European Union as a means to prevencombat poverty and guarantee social justice and equal opportunities for all, without calling into question the specific situations in each Member State;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Agrees with the Council, that the implementation of Recommendation 92/441/EEC needs to be improved in relation to minimum income and that social transfers must provide an adequate minimum income for a dignified life; recalls the Commission Recommendation on Active Inclusion that highlights that "in most Member States and for most family types, social assistance alone is not sufficient to lift beneficiaries out of poverty" (COM(2008) 639 final) and demands that all schemes meant to provide a minimum income (such as pensions or social security schemes) must be set at least at the level of the relative poverty threshold, calculated as 60% of median equivalised income; reaffirms its demand in the EP Resolution to agree an EU target for minimum income schemes and contributory replacement income schemes at least at this level, and calls for a timetable for achieving this target in all Member States;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls on Member States to take urgent action to improve take-up of benefits, monitor levels of non take-up and causes, recognizing that non take-up accounts for between 20-40% of benefits according to OECD, through increasing transparency, by providing more effective information and advice facilities and simplifying procedures, and by putting in place effective measures and policies to fight stigma and discrimination associated with minimum income recipients;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Criticizes Member States where minimum income schemes do not meet the relative poverty threshold; reaffirms its demand to Member States to remedy this situation as soon as possible; demands that good and bad practices are addressed by the Commission in the evaluation of National Action Plans;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Points to major age discrimination regarding Minimum Income schemes such as setting the Minimum Income for children to below the poverty threshold or such as excluding young people from Minimum Income schemes due to a lack of social security contributions; stresses that this undermines the unconditionality and decency of Minimum Income schemes;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the urgent need to define and use appropriate economic and social indicators in various areas (health, housing, education, income and employment), which will allow the progress made in combating poverty and promoting social inclusion to be monitored and measured; states that these indicators should be presented annually on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), should evolve as necessary and should include gender, age ranges, households, disability situations, immigration, chronic illness and various income levels (60% of median income; 50% of median income; 40% of median income) in order to take account of relative poverty, extreme poverty and the most vulnerable groups; stresses the urgent need to have EU statistical data beyond monetary indicators on situations of extreme poverty such as homelessness which are currently not covered by EU-SILC;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges those people in a state ofe Commission and Member States to ensure that people experiencing poverty and, their representative organisations to participate in the preparation and application of policies, measures and indicators at European, national, regional and local levelsand the organisations providing services for them are made key stakeholders and provided with adequate financial and other resources and support to enable them to participate in the preparation and application of policies, measures and indicators at European, national, regional and local levels, particularly in relation to the National Reform Programmes of Europe 2020 and in the Open Method of Coordination of Social Protection and Social Inclusion;