Activities of Siôn SIMON related to 2014/2247(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Cohesion policy and marginalised communities (A8-0314/2015 - Terry Reintke)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-Ab. whereas, the Commission does not provide a definition for marginalised communities, leaving to Member State the responsibility to decide on the basis of their national indicators; notices however, that marginalisation can be established by looking at a set of relevant indicators such as social exclusion, measures of high long-term unemployment, low level of education, discrimination, (extremely) poor housing conditions, high level of discrimination, and excessive exposure to health risks and/or lack of access to health care, i.e. those populations considered most vulnerable and most in need of help;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital –A c (new)
Recital –A c (new)
-Ac. whereas Regulation 1304/2013/EU stipulates that the European Social Fund shall benefit people, including disadvantaged people such as the long- term unemployed, people with disabilities, migrants, ethnic minorities, marginalised communities and people of all ages facing poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Stresses that cuts in budget for public services in some Member States during the crisis has led to aggravating unemployment, missing social security, difficult housing situation and health problems; calls on the Member States to use more efficiently the support from the European Social Fund in order to improve the quality and equal access to public services for marginalised communities and combat any form of discrimination;