12 Amendments of Marc BOTENGA related to 2019/2212(INI)
Amendment 36 #
C a. whereas, according to the European Commission, in the EU-28, only 3 out of 10 children under the age of 3 participate in childcare; whereas this overall average hides important differences between Member States, having cases in which only 1 out of 10 have access to it;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas income inequalities remain at a high level; whereas wage austerity as well as tax and labour cost competition are harmful for the single market andcohesion within and across Member States, since they increase inequalities and the vulnerability of low wage earners; whereas intergenerational social mobility is limited in most Member States;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas, according to the latest Eurostat data, in 2018, 9.5% of all EU Member States' workers lived in households that are at risk of poverty; whereas in 2012 that value was about 8.8%;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas in 2017, 13.3% of the population of the EU’s 28 Member States lived in substandard housing and 10.4% spent 40% or more of their household income on housing; whereas these figures were considerably higher for tenants than for landlords; whereas access to decent and affordable housing is difficult for people of all ages, a problem that has become particularly apparent in urban areas, where tourism and gentrification have pushed residents out of cities;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas adequatefair wages, including minimum wages, are essential to reduce in- work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demandboost economy;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. States that in several Member States the general increase in the wages level, and not only minimum wages, is a national emergency; urges, therefore, the Commission to abstain from interfering on that, e.g. abstain from blackmailing those Member States that wish to answer immediately and effectively to that emergency;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Urges the European Commission to support Member States to establish or to extend their childcare infrastructures, e.g. by exempting all the public expenditure related to public childcare from the calculation of the budgetary deficit (including the investments co- financed by the European funds);
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to present a framework directive on decent minimum income schemes, in order to provide a social protection floor and by ensuring that neither the direct beneficiary nor their families live above the poverty line; states that the minimum income must be a temporary and transitory measure, to dignify the condition of those who are in a situation of greater deprivation and vulnerability and, therefore, it shall require complementary measures of inclusion, through public employment policies, support and promotion of national productive capacity in order to boost decent job creation;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. CallUrges for an integrated response to tackle the lack of affordable housing, poor housing conditions, housing exclusion and homelessness; calls the Commission and all EU Member States to support the eligibility for investment in public housing under the Cohesion Fund (improving existing public housing and possibly building new housing), removing this type of investment from deficit criteria and revising State aid rules in this regard;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve work-life balance and gender equality and to ensure equal pay for equal work at the same place; calls for more efforts to close the gender pay and pensions gaps, and to tackle disincentives for women to work; calls for the extension of the maternity and parental leaves, as well as for the payment of those leaves at 100%; calls for accessible and affordable quality public childcare and early education services, as well as public care services for those reliant on care, including the elderly and people with disabilities;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to strengthen theupport the implementation of a strong regulation of newall forms of work, including the new ones, and the improve thement of working conditions of all workers, including both shift and platform workers;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Rejects any reduction in the level of cohesion policy funding and asks for its strengthening in the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) vis-à-vis the current MFF; opposes, in this context, the proposal to reduce funding for all Cohesion Funds, including the European Social Fund Plus despite its enlarged scope; stresses the need for greaterdeplores any macroeconomic conditionality, i.e. any alignment of the European Semester with social and cohesion funding and the policy objectives of the Union;