11 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2010/2039(INI)
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the need to attach particular importance to lifelong learning programmes as a basic tool with which to combat poverty and social exclusion, by boosting employability and access to knowledge and the labour market; considers it necessary to provide incentives for increased participation in lifelong learning by workers, unemployed people and all vulnerable social groups, and to take effective action against the factors that lead people to drop out, as well as improving the level of professional qualifications and acquisition of new skills, which may lead to faster reintegration in the labour market, increase productivity and help people to find a better job;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights the need to establish a transparent and fair tax system that will guarantee full harmonisation between tax burdens and ability to pay, and that will make provision for tax cuts for families, socially vulnerable groups (elderly people, people with disabilities, etc.) and the middle and lower classes so that they are not faced with the risk of poverty;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Highlights the need for action at both European and national level to protect citizens and consumers against unfair terms relating to the repayment of loans and credit cards, and to lay down conditions governing access to loans aimed at preventing households from falling into excessive debt and hence into poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the school drop-out rate and restricted access to higher and university-level education are basic factors in the emergence of a high long- term unemployment rate and represent a blight on social cohesion; given that action to combat these two problems figures among the Commission's priority objectives in the document on the 2020 Strategy, a basis will have to be created for the introduction of specific actions and policies on young people's access to education through scholarships, student grants, student loans and initiatives to make school education more dynamic;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need to introduce a minimum wage in all the Member States, in line with the specific characteristics of each individual Member State, so as to ensure a guaranteed minimum income as a way of combating the phenomenon of the working poor, social exclusion and educational inequalities; stresses the need for compliance with the wage limits laid down in collective and sectoral labour agreements as a means of ensuring a minimum income for workers;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the need to adopt specific provisions at both European and national level to ensure, by setting a minimum working time, that all workers in flexible and atypical forms of employment receive a guaranteed minimum income, given that the number of 'working poor' in the EU, a large proportion of whom are 'flexible' workers, now exceeds 19 million;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Stresses the importance of the existence of unemployment benefit that guarantees a decent standard of living for beneficiaries, and also the need to reduce the length of absences from work, inter alia by making state employment services more efficient;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Stresses the need to adopt rules on insurance so as to establish a link between the minimum pension paid in each Member State and the corresponding poverty threshold;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Insists that the social partners should be fully involved on an equal footing in drawing up national action plans to combat poverty and setting reference targets at each level of governance;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses the need to plan and implement targeted interventions, through active employment policies at geographical, sectoral and business level, and with the active involvement of the social partners, in order to boost access to the labour market for people from sectors or geographical regions with particularly high rates of unemployment;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Stresses the need to focus on selected sections of the population (migrants, women, unemployed people of pre- retirement age, etc.) with the aim of improving skills, preventing unemployment and strengthening the fabric of social integration;