Activities of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2010/2088(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on GDP and beyond – measuring progress in a changing world
Amendments (13)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas at the present stage of social development in the European Union progress primarily means facilitating individual and collective political, social and democratic participation for all by eliminating social divisions and poverty,
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas poverty and social exclusion are affronts to human dignity and prevent political, social and cultural participation and whereas social progress is conditional on overcoming these affronts,
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas decommodification of work represents progress towards individual self-determination and opportunities for social participation,
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is now legally binding, should be the yardstick for all European Union policies; deplores the fact that fundamental rights cannot be asserted individually at law; calls for the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in its entirety, to be valid in all Member States without exception, for all people living in the European Union, and for it to be made possible for individuals to bring legal proceedings in response to violations of it;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to measure the individual quality of life in societies, particularly in the case of members of groups which are at particular risk of exclusion, and notes that such measurement will require metrics from at least the following categories: health, education, poverty, employment, leisure, connectedness, political engagementand cultural participation, material wellbeing and environment;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to measure ‘coping with income’ and the degree to which people are living well in terms of financial and material assets, including minimum income, indebtedness, quality of housing and the adequacy of social security systems; a guarantee that the minimum income will safeguard recipients against poverty and including indebtedness, quality of housing, energy supply, expenditure on education and culture, expenditure on information and communication technologies, the adequacy of social security systems and access to high-quality services and expenditure on child care, health and various other types of care;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the urgent need to have EU statistical data beyond monetary indicators on situations of extreme poverty such as homelessness which are currently not covered by EU-SILC; considers that details of these key socioeconomic indicators should be set out in an annual report forwarded to the Member States and the European Parliament for discussion and with a view to determining the scope for further action;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for indices to reflect distributional issues in society in order to monitor social inclusion and social participation in the European Union and beyond;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the need to measure both unpaid and paid work and, in doing so, to take account of whether it is subject to the ‘decent work principles’ of the International Labour Organisation and the principle of ‘good work’ and whether it affords a guarantee against poverty;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to introduce common indicators for the situation of children and to gather comparable high- quality data and long-term statistics covering all aspects of a holistic approach to combating child poverty and social exclusion, including housing, for children and families and to improve the provision of child care facilities in order to safeguard children’s welfare;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for the incorporation of a ‘social progress clause’ in the primary law of the European Union;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Takes note of the Council’s decision of 17 June 2010 to leave it up to Member States to set their national targets for reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and exclusion on the basis of one or more of the three indicators agreed upon by the Council; considers that Member States using only the ‘jobless household’ indicator may systematically neglect problems such as in-work poverty, energy poverty, child poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Council and Member States to measure the objective for combating poverty announced in the Europe 2020 Strategy using the relative poverty indicator approved by the European Council at its Laeken Summit in December 2001 (60% of median household income), because this indicator reveals poverty as a relative status, relates poverty to the situation in the Member State concerned and is also comparable throughout the EU;