20 Amendments of Dragoş PÎSLARU related to 2020/2011(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority of which approximately 6 million lives in the EU; whereas about 80 % of Roma live below their country’s at-risk-of-poverty threshold; 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1 ; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2 ; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113 ; _________________ 1European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 3. 2Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies – 2019, COM(2019)0406, p. 4. 3 Roma inclusion measures reported under the EU framework for NRIS, SWD(2019) 320 final, PART 1/2, p. 18.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma live in overcrowded housing4 ; _________________ 4European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 6.whereas the majority of Roma communities, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe, live in segregated settlements, facing spatial segregation and many of these communities are disproportionally exposed to environmental degradation and pollution stemming from waste dumps and landfills, contaminated sites, or dirty industries4a; _________________ 4European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 6. 4aEuropean Environmental Bureau report, 2020, Pushed to the wastelands. Environmental racism against Roma communities in Central and Eastern Europe, p 6
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Roma communities are most vulnerable, they are often live in slum settlements excluded from society and in substandard conditions whereas one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma live in overcrowded housing4 ; _________________ 4European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 6.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas poor transport infrastructure, a dearth of public administrative bodies and services, in particular of high-quality educational institutions and health provision aggravate regional disparities and ghettoisation;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas Roma are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 and are at extreme risk of suffering negative consequences of the COVID-19 crisis regarding access to healthcare, education, social benefits, including unemployment benefits, or any other measures which are aiming at mitigating the impact of coronavirus;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade,economic prosperity in the EU and despite the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies and the Cohesion Funds measures introduced in the last decade, the overall situation of the Roma in the EU has stagnated; progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been very limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out a and in some fields even regressed often due to the lack of political will; therefore calls on the Commission to lead by example and introduce a “Roma mainstreaming policy” in order to integrate the Roma perspective at all stages and levels of policies, programmes and priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS)ojects particularly the Recovery Plan, the new Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027, the European Green Deal, the new Common Agricultural Policy, the Just Transition Fund, the New Skills Agenda for Europe, the European Digital Strategy, the SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe; calls on the Commission to prevent discrimination in EU policies in general and to facilitate affirmative action; calls on the Member States also to to follow this path and create policies which help the active inclusion of Roma into our societies;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls on the Commission to set out binding objectives, measures and targets for the Member States, a clear timeline and clear and binding progress requirements, as well as success indicators and adequate funding for the implementation of the next EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategy; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure the equal participation of Roma civil society organisations, experts and community members, particularly those active at local and regional level in the policy debate and in decision-making;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU budget planning is firmly linked to the Roma inclusion process at EU levelthe Recovery Plan and the new Mulitannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027 is firmly linked to the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, to its binding targets and to their execution by National Roma Integration Strategies;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice; reminds that the Commission opened infringement procedures on segregation of Roma children in relation to 3 Member States; is of the opinion that the last years have shown no improvement despite the Commission's efforts; therefore calls on the Commission to take further steps and refer these cases to the European Court of Justice;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for a redesigned CAP which would enable and promote innovative forms of agricultural work, including social cooperatives for Roma communities, which could also play and important role in creating a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system, would contribute to the realisation of the objectives of the and European Green Deal; calls for the promotion and exchange of best practices in this domain among the Member States;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights that Roma often work under precarious employment conditions or in atypical employment situations; is strongly of the opinion that the new instrument for temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) should be targeting the most vulnerable in the Member States;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Is of the opinion that the Roma are amongst the most affected by the COVID- 19 pandemics and mostly its economic consequences in Europe; emphasizes that the EU needs to focus on the immediate needs of its citizens, giving quick and adequate answers to the occuring problems is inevitable in order to strengthen cohesion, increase the trust towards EU institutions and also to practise European values particularly solidarity; calls on the Commission to strengthen the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived in order to support families with long lasting food products, disinfectants, and information sheets about the virus;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; calls on the Council to unblock negotiatons on the horizontal anti-discrimination directive as it is a prerequisite to achieve equality in the EU; _________________ 6 Article 3(1)(h) of Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions, to address the issue of homelessness and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to ensure the integration of policies to combat antigypsyism in all its forms and to recognize environmental discrimination as a specific manifestation of antigypsyism. Environmental justice must be integrated as a stand-alone area in the post-2020 framework and should address the different forms of environmental discrimination such as the problem of forced evictions to polluted or contaminated areas, the systematic denial of environmental services, as well as the health risk associated with poor environment.
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls on the Member States to address the issues of housing and homelessness, through developing the social housing stock and through promoting non-discriminatory access to social housing;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Highlights the promising approaches of "housing first" initiatives to prevent and combat homelessness and housing in segregated areas and calls on Member States to consider shifting from staircase model of service provision to housing-led services, complementing provision of housing with accompanying support combining elements of employment, education, health and community development;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the EU added value through the establishment of a closeIs of the option that the EU added value is in jeopardy despite the fact that there is a link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014- 2020 programming period and the NRIS, as ESIF fails to reach out to the most disadvantaged, in particular the Roma; calls on the Commission to actively reach out to Roma communities with its policies and programmes; and urges the Member States to do so and publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;