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5 Amendments of Franz OBERMAYR related to 2010/2039(INI)

Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the European Year for Combating Poverty should have a crucial impact in raising awareness of poverty and the resulting social exclusion and promoting active inclusion, which requires a fairer redistribution of income and wealth and necessitates measures ensuring effective economic and social cohesion,
2010/05/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas a global objective needs to be established, 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 fairer redistribution of income and wealth,
2010/05/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need for concrete measures to effectively and significantly reduce poverty and social exclusion, ensuring a fair reer distribution of income and wealth and also giving meaning and content 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;
2010/05/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that there are a number of reasons for the serious poverty experienced by immigrants in the European Union: on the one hand, because of the current economic situation there are not enough decent jobs available, and, on the other, immigrants are often sorely lacking in qualifications, language skills and willingness to integrate; emphasises that if poverty in the European Union is to be combated, more targeted immigration is needed; takes the view that unskilled immigrants with little chance of finding a job should be barred from entering the European Union, so that the problems of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion are dealt with even before they arise;
2010/05/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the various experiments with minimum incomes, accompanied by social integration measures, show that this is a further essential way of combating poverty and social exclusion; therefore calls on the European Commission to prepare an initiative supporting these experiments, taking into account best practices and ensuring an adequate minimum income throughout the European Union as a means to prevent poverty and guarantee social justice and equal opportunities for all, in keeping with the subsidiarity principle and without calling into question the specific situations in each Member State;
2010/05/19
Committee: EMPL