Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2023/2129(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the 2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Commission
Amendments (9)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, gender equality and the elimination of inequalities are core values upon which the Union is founded, and the commitment to promote equality between men and women in all of its actions as enshrined in Article 8 TFEU; whereas the policies of attacking social and labour rights it promotes contradict that rhetoric and have, in fact, played a part in the deepening of socio-economic inequalities, particularly affecting women;
Amendment 6 #
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 so- called 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 impeding access to childcare facilities;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to work 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 attending job interviews at which they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women’s decisions 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
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Rejects the increase in the budget allocations for militarisation, specifically for arms, infrastructure, capacity and military mobility and for border surveillance and externalisation; takes the view that those funds should be used to promote economic and social cohesion and tackle the root causes of migration, such as poverty and violent conflicts;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to safeguard sexual and reproductive health and rights, in particular by ensuring the availability of reproductive health programmes and services providing the types of care and medicines required for voluntary family planning and maternal and newborn health;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. 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 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls strongly for the establishment of precarity-based 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; calls on the European Parliament and other EU institutions to combat precarity by promoting collective agreements and employment with rights and rejecting subcontracting, ensuring that a permanent position means a permanent employment contract and that there is equal pay for equal work;