Activities of Frédéric DAERDEN related to 2010/2039(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the role of minimum income in combating poverty and promoting an inclusive society in Europe PDF (243 KB) DOC (210 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission Communication of 3 October 2008 on a Commission Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
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 fair redistribution of income and wealth, hence the need to draw up social impact studies for all decisions and to apply the horizontal social clause contained in the Lisbon Treaty,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the role of social protection systems is to ensure the level of social cohesion needed for development guaranteeing social inclusion and mitigating the social repercussions of the financial crisis, which also implies improving the level of training of those people excluded from the labour market and guaranteeing equal opportunities in the exercise of fundamental rights,
Amendment 69 #
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 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, in keeping with national collective bargaining practices or national law;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to use its right of initiative to propose a framework directive establishing the principle of an adequate minimum income in Europe, to be determined on the basis of criteria common to all the Member States and in keeping with national collective bargaining practices or national law;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises the need, when the levels of minimum incomes are determined, for due account to be taken of the fact that workers have dependants, in particular children, the aim being to break the vicious circle of child poverty; takes the view, further, that the Commission should draw up an annual report on progress in the fight against child poverty;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Takes the view that adequate minimum income schemes must set minimum incomes at a level equivalent to at least 60% of average income in the Member State concerned;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Council to adopt, by means of a statement, a clear position in favour of an adequate minimum income in Europe;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Notes that, if no Commission legislative proposal is forthcoming, the concept of an adequate minimum income can be promoted by means of closer cooperation among the Member States which support the idea and/or through incentives, such as a stipulation that the provision of assistance under the Structural Funds will be made contingent on the existence of such a minimum income in the Member State concerned;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the promotion of social integration and inclusion, in order to guarantee protection of fundamental human rights, and clear commitments to draw up EU and national policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, by ensuring universal access to public health services, vocational education and training, housing and social protection, in addition to employment with rights, fair wages, decent pensions and an adequate minimum income for everyone, in keeping with national collective bargaining practices or national law; notes, further, that in the long term the more the Member States invest in these various policies the less need there will be for a system based on a minimum household income;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that the Commission should study the impact which a legislative proposal it might submit concerning the introduction of an adequate minimum income at European level would have in each Member State; suggests, in particular, that any such study should examine the difference between the adequate minimum income and the minimum wage in the Member State concerned and the implications for jobseekers of the introduction of an adequate minimum income;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the European Commission, in its ‘Europe 2020’ strategy document, announces that removing the risk of poverty for 20 million people is one of the EU’s five headline targets; believes that this absolute target should be at least doubledcombined with a target of reducing poverty by at least 25% in each Member State, in order to encourage every Member State to contribute to the task of achieving it, and made more credible with appropriate measures;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
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, without calling into question the specific situations in each Member State, in keeping with national collective bargaining practices or national law;
Amendment 160 #
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, such as (health, housing, education, income and(for example the Gini coefficient, which can be used to measure income gap trends), material privation or 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;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that, in addition to measurements of reductions in poverty, and looking ahead to a possible Commission proposal on the introduction of an adequate minimum income, eligibility for this income should also be measured by means of common European indicators, on the understanding that such eligibility cannot be made contingent on nationality or age;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that, in respect of the poverty reduction policies which accompany the establishment of an adequate minimum income in the Member States, the open method of coordination should be revised in order to make for a genuine exchange of best practices among the latter;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges those people in a state of poverty and, their representative organisations and the social partners to participate in the preparation and application of policies, measures and indicators at European, national, regional and local levels;