29 Amendments of Lívia JÁRÓKA related to 2010/2276(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on national ministries of education as well as the Commission to establish innovative and flexible grants for talent nurturing and to increase support for existing grants and programmes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers that a new type of scholarship programme should be developed to ensure the highest quality instruction for Roma students in order to educate a new generation of Roma leaders;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Believes that educational institutions whose underprivileged students win places in higher level institutions or whose graduating percentage is above the average should be rewarded and calls on the Commission to develop projects in this respect;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that local governments must take care of the reintegration of students falling out of the school system up to the maximum age of compulsory education. To this end, educational institutions must inform local governments about school- leavers;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that the social exclusion affecting Roma has a very strong territorial dimension of poverty and marginalization, and this is concentrated in underdeveloped micro-regions that severely lack the necessary financial resources to provide their own contribution to the Community funding that they are eligible for and most often lack the administrative capacity and human resources to make good use of the funding; Emphasizes the need for the concentration of specific efforts to these micro-regions that are often peripheral intra-regional areas and for the substantial simplification of bureaucratic and implementation rules so that the maximum possible allocation of resources can be achieved under the umbrella of the Cohesion Policy;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that kindergartens and/or alternative forms of pre-school care and education should be established in communities where none exist, and expanded where there is a lack of places;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Reminds that the primary prerequirement of successful integration is joint efforts made both by the mainstream society and by the Roma community; therefore urges Member States to help improve Roma people's housing and employment situation, provide inclusive school climate with actively involving parents, and calls for Roma communities' social commitment and appropriate participation in improving their housing, employment and educational situation in order to ensure their real, effective and sustainable integration.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that the system of training within workplaces must be expanded and enabled to provide the acquisition of necessary skills and abilities on a large scale;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Believes that it is necessary to harmonize the training supply with the labour-market demand, and therefore calls for middle-term national and regional forecasts on expected labour- demand;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission to develop and implement joint monitoring systems of EU institutions, member states and Roma community leaders for the programmes and projects put into practice within the member states;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the soft policy approach of the Open Method of Coordination relying on the voluntary participation of Member States and without any hard incentive inducing effective performance proved to be insufficient in fostering Roma inclusion and this limitation may be partially obviated by tying EU funding mechanisms more closely to peer review processes,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the employment rate of Roma women is even lower than that of Roma men and, on the other hand, given their role in the family, women can be the cornerstones of the inclusion of marginalized communities,
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas women from ethnic minorities and especially Roma women face much more serious discrimination than men from the same ethnic group or women from the majority,
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to promote best practices and positive models and experiences with implemented programmes and Roma self-initiatives in order to improve the perception and image of Roma within non-Roma communities as well as to boost active participation and creative collaboration on the part of the Roma communities with EU, member state and local programmes.
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 5
Paragraph 4 – indent 5
– report on the progress of the Strategy and the evaluation of results, and keep the Council and Parliament informed on an annual basis, noting that policy effectiveness and ex-post evaluation should become a criteria for providing prolonged support,
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 6
Paragraph 4 – indent 6
– ensure the involvement of concerned stakeholders and Roma communities from all levels through the European Roma Platform, and work in partnership with the other institutions, Member States and regions, international financing institutions, transnational programming bodies and intergovernmental organisations, noting that it is necessary to improve coordination and collaboration between concerned policy actors and policy networks to avoid duplication and enhance the mutually reinforcing effects of policy actions in the field and to eliminate the risks of policy overlap and policy conflict stemming from the proliferation of stakeholder networks;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that earmarked funding for the Strategy should be made available on a competitive basis, as defined by the criterion of how the proposed project or intervention supports and implements the Objectives of the Strategy, notes that these actions must be selected on the basis of being ready for rapid implementation, or at least launching, involving a number of partners as well as taking advantage of the opportunities or countering the threats identified as significant in the area;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to apply both Participatory Monitoring Evaluation involving Roma communities and helping to develop the capacity of the stakeholders on the one hand and external expertise in order to gain a realistic and objective view of the overall success or failure of different measures and instruments on the other hand;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on Member States to implement the horizontal priority ‘Marginalised Communities’ within the framework of the EU Structural Funds, underlining that existing measures, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms must be significantly improved; stresses, furthermore, that agencies and organisations implementing projects co- financed by Structural Funds and targeting Roma directly or benefitting Roma indirectly must be held accountable and implement actions in a transparent manner;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that co-financing should be reviewed and possibly differentiated to better reflect the diversity of actions and beneficiaries, and thus projects targeting Roma could be required to have a smaller share of co-financing from the country, with a higher share by the EU;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Stresses that coordination among related EU policies must be significantly improved in order to foster synergies and complementarities, bureaucratic and implementation rules must be substantially simplified and all barriers between the various funds must be eliminated so that the maximum possible allocation of resources can be achieved by all the instruments, such as the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the European Integration Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Programme of Community action in the field of public health;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Emphasizes the need for Structural Funds to combine national and local approaches by acting through programmes that concurrently operate with a national strategy and provide local responses to specific needs; stresses, furthermore, the need to create synergies between the implementation of Structural Funds and government strategies for Roma, as well as between the Managing Authorities of the European Social Fund and the specialised Roma units or coordination structures dealing with Roma issues;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to analyse and eliminate the barriers to (re)entering the labour market and self-employment of Roma women and furthermore to place proper emphasis on the role of women in the economic empowerment of marginalized Roma and launching businesses;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the involvement of Roma women into the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the EU Strategy on Roma Inclusion;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include as a horizontal objective the capacity building and empowerment of Roma women in all the Priority Areas of the EU Strategy on Roma Inclusion;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Calls on the Commission and the Council to include the promotion of gender equality among the Objectives of the Strategy as well as combating multiple and intersectional discrimination;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)
Paragraph 13 e (new)
13e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to collect, analyse and publish reliable statistical data disaggregated by gender to be able to properly evaluate and update the Strategy as well as measure the impacts of the Strategy's projects and interventions on Roma women;