Activities of Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS-CASSIOTOU related to 2008/2137(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 17 June 2008 on the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010)1,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the policies of the Union institutions and the Member States geared to improving access to employment can only be based on the recognition thatof the economic reform in Eastern and Central Europe has made millions of former workers unemployed or kept them inactiveutility of active integration measures;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the socioeconomic disadvantage suffered by Roma children in practice puts early developmentpreschool and quality education out of their reach throughout the region; notes that these disadvantages in turn determine their subsequent chances on the labour market;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that education systems are selective and that although Member States are spending substantial sums on overcoming segregation, innumerable seemingly ineluctable systems accelerate the rise of the elite from the middle class and accentuate disparities in opportunities for the poor who find themselves on a downward spiral, particularly the Romathe socio-economic and educational level of the Roma is showing no significant improvement and calls on the competent bodies to take measures to introduce flexibility into the relevant systems;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that, although the proportion of Roma young people in secondary and higher education has increased, their level of qualifications still remains far below the European average; observes that, as a result of this, the Member States' economies often draw labour from third countries to make good labour shortages; and calls on the competent bodies to make use of their qualifications, as a matter of priority, in particular since they are resident in the EU·
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it a fact that the Roma community in some Member States particularly influences demographic processes; notes that, for instance, the proportion of Roma children in the population is high, while their life expectancy at birth is a full 10 years less than that of people belonging to the majority nationalitieand calls for multilateral measures to enable them to develop into active European citizens;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that it is commoner for Roma to suffer from so-called 'diseases of poverty', that the unhealthy environment in which they live, poor diet and difficult access to health services which hamper their employment on the market and provide a pretext for denying them particular job opportunities; calls on the competent authorities to help bring about an improvement in their living conditions;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers it essential that the Member States havmake used substantial European Union and Member-State of their own and European resources to help the long- term unemployed find work, but these have typically set in stone the existing situation; stresses that the number of long-term unemployed people and their marginalisation have grown since enlargement;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Endorses the view taken by the Commission that the greatest problem in bringing about reintegration into the labour market is that Roma adults are under-represented in the working population and in lifelong learning, but over-represented among the long-term unemployed and those working on low- prestige occupationsRoma adults should be represented in the working population in the context of lifelong learning;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Draws it to the attention of the Member States that this social dichotomy compels many Roma job-seekers to transfer from the legal economy to the black market, and that a European effort is needed to bring that marketRoma travel to find work and often perform undeclared work. Consequently, an effort is needed from all the competent bodies to bring the Roma's activities into the legitimate sphere;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers it necessary to take account of the fact that, in practiuse European financial resource,s the elimination ofo improve housing conditions in Roma settlements cannot be achieved using EU resources under the rules which currently apply to the European Regional Development Fund, as, in the case of Member States which acceded after 2004, the minimum population figure for the eligibility of settlements for financing from housing budgets is such that it is precisely those living under the worst conditions, in the smallest settlements, who cannot be reachedd calls on the Commission to draw up appropriate rules on minimum population figures to make such financing possible;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that the Member States should exploit the revision of the rules governing the Structural Funds which affords more scope for complex programmes by allowing more than 10% to be transferred between the Funds, but notes that, in the Member States concerned, this opportunity is only exploited to an insignificant extent;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that the proposal of a comprehensive directive against discrimination is an excellent opportunity to evaluate Directive 2000/43/EC; considers thatCommission's proposal should ensure that Directive 2000/43/ΕC is implemented and evaluated and, in the spirit of the Social Agenda, the Commission should identify specific objectives with the aim of preventing and reduceliminating discrimination against and stigmatisation of the Roma and criminalisation of Roma communitiesthe Roma;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Supports the proposal by the EU institutions that the number of Roma working in public services should be increasedconcerning equal treatment of Roma applicants for jobs in public services; points out, however, that in order to make this possible it is necessary not only for governments to pursue personnel policies which promote it but also to increase public acceptance of the principle;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that employment of Roman women should also be promoted by means of employment-friendly operation of social support systems; calls on Member States to make it possible for children from large Roma families who have not yet reached school age to have access to children's day care institutions even if their mother is at home with her other children; considers it desirable that labour market programmes should use this time to teach them knowledge to prepare them in the long term for work from which they can earn a livingattend nursery schools even if their mother is at home; considers that there should be special programmes for the training and integration of Roma women into the labour market;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Expresses the view that subsidising jobs on the labour market in order to reintegrate Roma workers is preferable to subsidising long-term unemployment;