Activities of Monika VANA related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for 2020 - all sections (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020
Amendments (12)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union is founded on, inter alia, the value of equality between men and women, and Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that the promotion of such equality is a fundamental principle of the Union requiring gender equality to be incorporated into all policies and addressed at all levels of the budgetary process via gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Parliament has repeatedly called for sufficient funding of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) programme and to keep as high profile as possible the Daphne-specific objective of that programme; whereas the European Parliament has called for continuing all these actions on combating violence against women with an independent budget allocation for Daphnededicated to this goal also in the Rights and Values programme for the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2021-2027;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the proposal for the draft general budget for the European Union for 2020 seeks to continue supporting strategic investment and sustainable growth in order to improve economic cohesion and create jobs, in particular for young people; whereas, in this regard, it is important also to focus on enhancing women’sincreasing women’s participation in the labour market by, among other measures, investing in infrastructures and public services to support work life balance and increasing their potential in all sectors of economy, including the digitalised economy, information and communication technologies (ICT) and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM);
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its request to promote equality between women and men, by supporting gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting where possible within the budgetary procedure, including when finalising the negotiations of the next MFF, and to use budgetary expenditure as an effective tool for promoting gender equality between women and men;
Amendment 18 #
1a. Stresses that gender budgeting must become an integral part of the budgetary procedure in all budget lines, and not only in programmes in which the gender impact is most obvious, so that budgetary expenditure becomes an effective tool for promoting gender equality;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that gender budgeting is one dimension of a broader gender mainstreaming strategy and points out the importance of implementing gender mainstreaming in all the stages of the policy cycle;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the tendency of the last years to cut Union funds which combat all forms of violence against women and girls and reaffirms its request to increase resources for the Daphne-specific objective within the current REC programme and that such an increase is maintained in the Rights and Values programme; calls to ensure that funding is made available for actions aimed at combating violence against women and trafficking in the framework of the effective implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to continue all actions focused on preventing and combating all forms of violence against women, children and young persons in the framework of the programme that will replace the REC in the next MFF period, with an independent budget allocation for Daphnecombating gender- based violence against women and specific attention to combat trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reminds that one of the requirements to implement gender budgeting is to foresee independent budget lines for targeted actions linked to gender equality goals; reiterates its requests, therefore, to also assign an independent budget line to the objective in the REC programme dedicated to promote gender equality and to advance gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Reaffirms its request for increased resources under the Union Structural Funds to uphold women’s economic and social rights, especially through measures to increase women’s participation in the labour market and investment in high- quality public care services;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that a very significant number of refugees and asylum seekers entering the Union are women and children; highlights that gender mainstreaming is also among the founding principles of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and reiterates its call for the gender dimension to also be taken into account in migration and asylum policies by allocating specific funds dedicated to prevent gender-based violence and ensuring access to health and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that it is essential to ensure an adequate budget for human development to achieve the Agenda 2030 and SDGs, including SDG5; recalls the Union’s commitment to invest 20 % of the ODA to human development and calls for appropriate allocations on human development to improve health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, education, gender equality and social protection under the Global Public Goods and Challenges programme;