22 Amendments of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU states that in all its activities the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, establishing the principle of gender mainstreaming; whereas the EU-promoted policies of attacking social and labour rights contradict that rhetoric and have, in fact, played a part in the deepening of socio- economic inequalities, particularly affecting women;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in a number of Member States with low birth rates, women and couples would like to have children but are in practice prevented from doing so, not by choice but as a consequence of the constant deterioration in their living and working conditions, a direct result of austerity policies that have created unemployment, precarious employment relationships, disregard for and violation of maternity and paternity rights in the workplace, destroying public services and making access to childcare facilities more difficult;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the social consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, and more generally the uncertain economic outlook require a strong response for people, families, workers and businesses; highlights in that regard the crucial role of Union funds and financial instruments, including the Next Generation EU with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which complement the action by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) as the key driver for strengthening the social dimension of the Union and ensuring a socially sustainable, just, inclusive and non-discriminatory recovery in line with the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, as well as the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) and the Just Transition Fund (JTF); welcomes the triggering of the Temporary Protection Directive with regard to persons fleeing the war in Ukraine and seeking refuge oin the territory of the UnionMember States, and calls for continuing funding for its implementation; calls for protection and support of that kind to be guaranteed to all migrants and refugees arriving in the Member States, regardless of their origin and/or nationality;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to jobs with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, as women continue to be the worst affected and suffer the most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers on women at job interviews at which they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women’s decisions over whether to get pregnant and opting for childless workers who are ‘more available’, along with growing economic and work-related pressures on female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas expenditure arising from actions with military or defence implications should not be charged to the Union budget; whereas any EU involvement or financing from the EU budget for military, civil-military or military security research should be rejected; whereas, with a view to tackling the root causes of migration, such as poverty and violent conflicts, funds should be reallocated for strictly civilian use;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. Stresses that, even taking into account the balance of personal, family and professional life, the Union budget should include an increase in investment in public services for the provision of high-quality care, namely public networks of nurseries, crèches and public services for free-time activities for children, a public health care network, as well as the defence of public, accessible and high- quality health systems and a public social security system, ensuring its universality;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the EU budget to be ramped up in an effort to tackle the socio- economic plight that the Member States are facing, which has recently been compounded, among other matters, by the war and sanctions and by speculative increases in commodity and energy prices; calls, further, for its redistributive function to be stepped up, providing support for efforts to achieve real convergence in economic and social progress between Member States; takes the view that this budget hike should be achieved by drastically scaling up national contributions from gross national income (GNI), and that those increased contributions should not add to Member States’ indebtedness;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls strongly for projects and investment supported by EU funds, along with social projects, investment and expenditure, to be excluded from the deficit and debt criteria;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of policies and measures to support labour market transition, as well as to further develop resilient social systems around the Union; insists on the need for up- and reskilling policies to address the demographic challenge and the green and digital transition; insists on the importance of investing in social inclusion and support measures for children and young people; recalls that the integration into the labour market of the most vulnerable groups, such as people in poverty, people with disabilities, young and elderly people, the unemployed, migrants, refugees and people displaced as a result of the war in Ukraineconflicts taking place around the world, is paramount;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomDeplores the Commission proposal to allocate EUR 16,7129 billion in 2023 to ESF+; insists that ESF+ must play a key role in support +, an amount which is clearly not enough to compensate for the continuing social impact of the pandemic, to which the impact of the war and sanctions have now been added; insists that ESF+ must be stepped up considerably so that it can help Member States to cope with the current situation and also solve structural problems; calls for special emphasis to be placed on the ESF +, with a view to helping Member States to achieve highfull employment levels, adequate social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the transition to a green and digital economy; decent working conditions and fair wages, to eradicate poverty and social exclusion, to provide adequate and robust social protection, quality and universal public services (including crèches and old-age and long- term care and education for people with disabilities) and decent housing for all, and to support the right to lifelong learning;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the current economic situation contributes to harassment, violence of all kinds, and prostitution, with women as the victims, in breach of human rights; stresses the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and to tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends, in particular, increasing funding to promote the protection of maternity, paternity and early childhood through the appropriate programmes; calls, to that end, for maternal and child health to be given special importance in the EU's 2023 budget; further recommends that funds be guaranteed for the defence, promotion and support of breastfeeding, thereby contributing to efforts to achieve the World Health Organization's target of having 50% of babies worldwide exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives by 2025, which would require, among other measures, ensuring maternity and paternity leave is long enough and sufficiently well remunerated;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the obligation by Member States with rate of young people who are not in employment, education or training that is higher than the Union average to allocate at least 12,5 % of their ESF+ resources to implement the Youth Guarantee; calls on Member States to make the best use of the Employment and Social Innovation strand (EaSI) of ESF+ for investment in social innovation and for stimulating labour mobility; takes note ofdeplores the late start of EaSI in 2021 and the reduced budget for 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues, and expects that it will reach its full working regime in 2024; stresses the importance of following upmaking the European Year of Youth 2022 a year with concrete actions and policies for social inclusion and employment measures for young peopleto tackle precariousness, low wages, unregulated hours, youth unemployment and the violation of the right to decent housing; recalls that the Commission should report on a regular basis on the implementation of the Council recommendations establishing a European Child Guarantee and reinforcing a Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls strongly for the establishment of precarity-based job offers to be rejected; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote collective agreements, wage appreciation, the promotion of open- ended contracts and the regulation of working hours; urges the European Parliament and the other EU institutions to tackle precarity by promoting collective agreements and work with rights and rejecting subcontracting, ensuring equal pay for equal work.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need for the EU budget to play a more active role in efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for the budget to be used to support measures and projects intended to eradicate female and child poverty, increase and improve integration into the labour market, eliminate wage and labour inequalities between men and women, improve access to and the provision of health care, and combat violence against women, children and young people;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the importance of EGF for its one-off assistance to dismissed workers so that they can find another job as rapidly as possible in major restructuring events,EGF’s one-off assistance to workers who have been dismissed as a result of the relocation of parts of a business or the impact of globalisation and the single market; points out, however, that the measures supported by the EGF are merely palliative in nature; ins particular those caused by important changes in trade relations of the Union or the composition of the internal market, the transition to a low- carbon economy or as a consequence of digitisation or automly concerned that the EGF has already funded measures to support workers dismissed from groups belonging to one of the largest private equity funds in the world, a fund which specialises in leveraged buyouts – a predatory and hostile strategy that decapitalises and destroys the companies acquired by the fund; criticises the fact that some of the dismissals are part of a disingenuous strategy, in some cases, to outsource the services of the company concerned and, in other cases, of company relocation; takes note that the level of EGF commitment appropriations in reserve for 2023 is set at EUR 205,3 million (approximately +1 % compared to 2022 and corresponding to the maximum MFF amount);
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the establishment of a programme to promote awareness-raising campaigns on the importance of trade unions, unionising and collective bargaining and agreements with a view to achieving a fairer society by improving working conditions, wages and living conditions, among other means;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that in the last decade, with the onset of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labour and gender inequalities within and between Member States have become more acute; recalls the important role of the European Institute for Gender Equality in raising awareness of the extent and causes of gender inequality in the EU; calls, therefore, for its budget, staff and independence to be increased.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers it essential to protect and promote the principle of multilingualism, which helps to foster democratic participation and transparency; calls, in this regard, for an adequate increase in funding for the EU institutions’ interpreting and translation services, including those of the European Parliament and the European Commission, and for that increase to serve to ensure that as many workers as possible who provide services of that kind are employed in-house and that their health and safety is protected;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls for decent working conditions and fair pay for crèche, cleaning and catering workers to be guaranteed at the EU institutions, including the European Parliament; calls strongly, in this regard, for those services and their workers to be brought in-house;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Takes the view that companies that fail to meet the highest social and labour standards and to uphold human rights – particularly those whose organisational model is based on precarious employment relationships or which close down and dismiss workers for no apparent reason – should be barred from accessing EU funds; takes the view, further, that groups of companies established in tax havens that actively take part in tax avoidance and evasion schemes and actively launder money should be denied access;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to safeguard SRHR, not least by providing for reproductive health programmes and services, including the types of care and medicines that are essential to voluntary family planning and maternal and newborn health;