8 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2014/2237(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. Whereas increased social inequalities, which have increased due to irresponsible and financially unsustainable government and budgetary politcies, lead to increased child poverty, children being the age group at greatest risk of poverty in 19 Member States of the EU, social inequalities reproduce disadvantage across generations and data indicate that the gap between rich and poor has increased throughout the EU, including in countries with higher GDP;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. Whereas the destrreduction of incomes has a major impact on reducing cycles of sin the differences between incomes and the burdens on them has a major impact on mitigating cycles of social inequality and whereas at the same time there is also a need for combining solidarity with encouraging greater productivity, for example by reducing the income tax on wage earners or by providing certain services, financed from state and/or locial inequaliauthority budgets, at a reduced rate or perhaps for free that could reduce child poverty;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. Whereas organisations point out that the main cause of increasing child poverty is the so-called austerity measures (a significant reduction of social support to children and families, rising unemployment, the spread of precarious employment and an increase in the tax burden), UNICEF states that budget cuts, particularly in the Mediterranean countries, have increased inequalities and helped worsen the living conditions of children2 so that these policiesthe dramatic and disproportionate increase in the tax burden and other burdens, for example those related to home loans), UNICEF states that budget cuts, as well as financial crises and austerity measures resulting from previous irresponsible government spending, particularly in the Mediterranean countries, have increased inequalities and helped worsen the living conditions of children2 so that these transitional measures or responsible measures aiming at a reestablished balance and a sustainable budget could only be based on a wider distribution of social costs, and that budgetary consolidation might not be possible without broader social solidarity, therefore such measures being applied without complementary ones targeting a wider circle of taxpayers in the following period would persistently violate the rights of children and constitute a violation of international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; __________________ 10 UNICEF Office of Research (2014), ‘Children of the Recession: The impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries’, Innocenti Report Card 12, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recommends that Member States increase the possibility, quantity, amounts, scope and effectiveness of the social support specifically directed to children, but also to parents (such as unemployment benefits) and to promote labour laws that guaranteand social measures (for example, providing subsidised or free meals for disadvantaged children at schools and educational establishments) specifically directed to children, but also to parents (such as unemployment benefits or, in particular, the prospects for employment for the long-term unemployed) and to promote labour laws that create opportunities in terms of the social rights and the security tof families and fight the grey economy and precarious employment;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends that Member States implement or enhance universal welfare benefits targeting children – such as the provision of subsidised or free meals for them, especially for disadvantaged and poor children, in order to ensure their healthy development – as an intrinsic right of the child;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the European Commission and the European Parliament to take the opportunity provided by the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework to increase the appropriations from the European Social Fund and the Food Aid Program for the most deprived groups and to check if children are a priority in the programming and implementation of regional and cohesion policies, with particular regard to the obligation to demolish large residential institutions (enforceable since 2014), as well as in order to reinforce adoptive and foster-parent status so that orphans and disadvantaged children can actually grow up in a family or somewhat familial environment;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that Member States develop proactive social policies that prevent poverty and the departure of children from their family environment, ensuring that it is not through poverty that children are institutionalised and furthermore that they can leave such institutions as soon as possible and that under a certain age they cannot even be put into such institutional care;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that Member States provide free or significantly subsidised school materials and school transportation during school hours and take resolute steps to eliminate child hunger by providing free or significantly subsidised meals for disadvantaged children studying in schools and educational establishments;