31 Amendments of Antonella SBERNA related to 2024/2077(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) supports, complements and adds value to the policies of the Member States in order to achieve high employment levels, develop a skilled and resilient workforce while ensureing equal opportunities, equal and access to the labour market, fair and high-quality working conditions, social protection and inclusion;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas different vulnerable groups have different needs, such as women in poverty, labour migrants, children, people with disabilities and elderly peopleparticular groups, such as people in vulnerable situations, have different needs; whereas the digital and green transition is much needed but alsos brings challenges for all people and all workers, and whereas to succeed in this endeavour, the EU must ensure a just transition that does not lose sight of workereave anyone behind and re- empower as mand vulnerable peopy people as possible;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the availability and affordability of decent housing is decreasing because of over-liberalisation of the marketas supply does not meet increasing demand; whereas the EU will have its first ever Commissioner for tackling the housing crises, and the first ever European affordable housing plan, expected in 2025;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Insists that the ESF+ must continue to be the key and primara key instrument for supporting the Member States, people and regions in regions and local authorities in investing in people and strengthening the social dimencohesion of the Union while reducing territorial disparities;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that the objectives of the ESF+ should be to achieve high employment levels with adequate wages, decent working conditions, healthy working environments and social security coverage, in order to develop a skilled, competitive and resilient workforce, ready for the twin transition and the future world of work,underlying industrial transformation and to build fair social protections and inclusive and cohesive societies, with the aims of eradicating poverty and delivering on the principles and the headline targets set out in the EPSR;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a strong, reinforced, stand- alone ESF+ with significantly increased public support for existing instruments aimed at providing for the poorest in our societies;achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion insists, therefore, on doublincreasing the funding for the ESF+ post- 2027;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Urges the European Commission to introduce further simplification measures both for managing authorities and for beneficiaries in order to reduce administrative burden and costly requirements and enhance the funds' effectiveness;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that a different ESF+ governance wshould lead to the loss of priority given to social aspects, includingmaintain the focus on employment, skills and social inclusion projects, and to the funding not reaching local levels and those most in need, while increasing the risk ofincluding access to services in urban and rural areas, while ensuring that funding realch location of funds for other purposesl levels and those most in need;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensurefully abide by the partnership principle with regions and local authorities while ensuring the participation of social partners, civil society organisations (CSOs) and representatives of the target groups in all design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation stages of the ESF+, to allocate adequate funding for this purpose and to prevent the exclusion of smaller actors;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the current ESF+ programme was adopted before the emergence of crises that have caused high inflation and increased costs of living, and therefore require higher public and social investment such that the existing ESF+ cannot meet current needs; calls on the Commission to ensure that a comprehensive, stable and large-scale needs- and rights-based budget is guaranteed fortake into proper consideration the ESF+ in the next multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that the ESF+ post-2027 should invest in tackling enduring social challengeand demographic challenges, mitigating the socio-economic impact of the industrial transformation, while addressing the issue of depopulation in inner areas and stay close to the general and specific objectives set out in the current ESF+; emphasises the importance of the fund’s principles of shared management with regional and local authorities, clear objectives and thematic concentrations, and that most of thethe allocation of funds should be spetake into as close as possible to those using the fundccount the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics and final recipients;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that horizontal principles, such as gender equality, anti- discrimination, and freedom of movement, should be integral to the ESF+; stresses the importance of an intersectional approach throughout the entire development and implementation of the fund;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that the ESF+ should target the most disadvantaged people in our societies, regardless of their sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, or racial or ethnic origin – in particular marginalised communities such as Roma people, people with disabilities or chronic diseases, homeless people, children and elderly people; underlines that the ESF+ must be inclusive, with special attention given to all kinds of families, including single-parent families, families with more than two parents and rainbow families;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Emphasises the importance of addressing the needs of the EU's ageing population; Calls for the ESF+ to allocate dedicated funding to support quality elder care services;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11 b. Recognises the demographic challenges facing the EU and calls for targeted investments in family policies that support population growth. The ESF+ should include specific measures aimed at promoting birth rates and alleviating economic pressures on families with multiple dependents;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission, in the light of current challenges, to include in the just transition specific objectives of the ESF+ the promotion of the justin order to support regions and requalification of workers more heavily affected by the negative impacts of the twin transition, as well as the socio- economic integration of migrants, including labour migrants, the social inclusion of women who are victims of gender-based violence and the integration of older people;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that reaching the EPSR’s targets on poverty becomes challenging, unless specific support is dedicated to alleviating the pressure on social protection systems and mitigating the social impact of crises; insists on dedicating support to ensure decent living conditions for all, with access to high-quality essential services; calls for the EU anti-poverty strategy, outlined in Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s political guidelines for the 2024- 2029 term, to be implemented via the ESF+, with its binding poverty-reduction targets, national living wage indices and reference budgets used as benchmarks, applying a multidimensional approach;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that addressing child poverty requires appropriately funded, comprehensive and integrated measures, together with the implementation of the European Child Guarantee at national level, and insists that it constitute a central pillar of the EU anti-poverty strategy; repeats its previous demands for the ESF+ post-2027 to include a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for the European Child Guarantee; insists that all the Member States should allocate at least 5 % of their ESF+ resources to the European Child Guarantee and at least higher percentage of up to 10 % for those Member States withat request it and have a higher portionnumber of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Shares the ambition to prioritise the tackling of the housing crises, and insists that the ESF+ post-2027 should enhance timely and equal access to affordable, decent, sustainable and high-quality services promoting access to housing; believes that all the Member States must invest at least 5 % of their ESF+ resources into tackling homelessnessspecifically to initiatives aimed at supporting disadvantaged individuals facing housing insecurity;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Welcomes the European Commission’s intention to ensure that citizens have an effective right to stay in their local communities by improving access to services, including education, health, transport and digital connectivity; calls for additional support for measures to retain talent in the European territories while at the same time creating jobs;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the importance of the ESF+ in focusing on different groups with different needs; stresses, therefore, the importance of allocating support to projects on the socio-economic position of migrants, including labour migrants, the social inclusion of people with disabilities, the ageing population in society, women and children, and female-headedsingle-parent households; insists that the ESF+ post- 2027 incorporate other aspects of social inclusion, such as housing, health and family circumstances and the support of community-based services;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses that the Employment and Social Innovation strand of the ESF+ provides support regarding the precarious situation of mobile workers and secures funding for trade union-related counselling; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure permanent funding for national and transnational trade union counselling services for such workers;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for the ESF+ to boost the implementation of the European care strategy by increasing the support for families and investing in quality early childhood education and care through community-based, person-centred, high- quality, affordable and accessible care systems thus contributing to improve work-life balance and participation in the labour market;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to allocate consistent financial resources to capacity- building, with the aims of empowering local and regional authorities and social partners to play a relevant role in areas of their competence, of strengthening their capacity to engage in social dialogue both at EU and national level and of enhancing social partners’ actions – and include technical assistance for these three purposes – with an adequate minimum percentage investment obligation from the Member States; further insists that social partners and CSOs should be guaranteed access to funding for social policy objectives in all the Member States on an equal basis;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines that it is of the utmost importance that small social enterprises and CSOs have access to all aspects of the ESF+; calls for anflexibility for Member States to increased the co-financing rate of at leastup to 90 % for measures targeting the most deprived implemented by CSOs, and at leastcivil society organizations and up to 70 % for those implemented by social enterprises;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Member States to ensure thatEfficient and effective implementation of the ESF+ depends on good governance and partnership between EU institutions and local, regional and locnational authorities, and organisations have a sayt the respective relevant territorial levels, so to take into projects financed from national budgper account all specific needs. Member States can also encourage the participation of both social partners and civil societsy;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Insists that the rules governing the use of the ESF+ must ensure and enhance compliance with the rule of law, the EU acquis, the partnership principle the highest EU social standards, social rights and democratic principles, and be aligned with the EPSR, the UN’s sustainable development goals and fundamental human and workers’ rightthe European Charter of Fundamental Rights, while aiming at implementing the EPSR and promoting the UN’s sustainable development goals;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for strong and more effective social conditionaliclear guidelines and incentives in rules on public procurement and concessions, with effective sanctions; encourages the Commission to create a comprehensive database, supplementing the Eurostat data, to allow for timely and reliable monitoring of the developments in employment, living conditions and industrial relations to ensure that employment standards and living conditions are upheld;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Warns that not all people are prepared for digitalisation, and that certain groups of people, especially Underlines that the digital divide is growing alongside the territorial divide, and the digital access challenges remain high for many Europeans, such as people in vulnerable situations, elderly or other most vulnerable,re disadvantaged categories, who could miss out on funding opportunities as a result;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Setresses that more work needs to be done for organisations and people to know aboutto enable local and regional authorities and other stakeholders to reap the benefits of all the opportunities that the ESF+ can bring; insists that the Commission and the Member States raise awareness of, inform and advise organisations about the opportunities presented by the ESF+;