4 Amendments of Ole CHRISTENSEN related to 2010/2039(INI)
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Highlights the need for concrete measures to effectively and significantly reduce poverty and social exclusion, ensuring a fair redistribution of income and wealth and also giving meaning and content to the European Year for Combating Poverty and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including guaranteeing an adequate minimum income throughout the European Union accordance with different practices, collective bargaining and national law in the member states;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Stresses the multidimensional nature of poverty and social exclusion, and highlights the social dimension and social sustainability of macroeconomic policies, as an integral part of the crisis exit strategy and economic and social cohesion, and the fact this implies changing the monetary priorities and policies, among others, of the Stability and Growth Pact, and also competition policies, internal market policies, and budgetary and fiscal policies;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Calls for the promotion of social integration and inclusion, in order to guarantee protection of fundamental human rights, and clear commitments to draw up EU and national policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, by ensuring universal access to public health services, vocational education and training, housing and social protection, in addition to employment with rights, fair wages, decent pensions and an adequate income for everyone in accordance with different practices, collective bargaining and national law in the member states;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Believes that the various experiments with minimum incomes, accompanied by social integration measures, show that this is a further essential way of combating poverty and social exclusion; therefore calls on the European Commission to prepare an initiative supporting these experiments, taking into account best practices and ensuring an adequate minimum income throughout the European Unionin accordance with different practices, collective bargaining and national law in the member states as a means to prevent poverty and guarantee social justice and equal opportunities for all, without calling into question the specific situations in each Member State;