Activities of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2015/2223(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Meeting the antipoverty target in the light of increasing household costs (debate) DE
Amendments (23)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 11 June 2013 on Social housing in the European Union1 a __________________ 1 a Textes adoptés, P7_TA(2013)0246
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas not having adequate heating and housing has a negative impact on a person’s health, in particular for children and older persons;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas financially vulnerable groups, such as unemployed, students, single-parent families, low-income families, widowed, permanently ill, suffer particularly of high level on living costs;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas EU-SILC figures show that housing cost overburden (by tenure status) is higher for tenants housed in the private rented sector, which may be explained by low housing quality and high prices;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution 'Towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union' of 20 November 2012 (Thyssen report) called for a European Social Pact as the fifth pillar of the EMU in order to promote amongst others decent living wages with minimum incomes preventing in-work poverty;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. Housing deprivation and energy poverty are higher in countries with a lower share of social rental housing i.e. Eastern and Mediterranean countries;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Commission to present, in the context of the announced social pillar, an EU framework directive on adequate minimum income in 2016 in order to support social convergence across the EU;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to ensure a more efficient and targeted use of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) by national, regional and local authorities in order to tackle energy poverty, especially households living in inefficient housing stock and housing in bad condition;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Finds regrettable that the EU2020 target to reduce poverty in Europe by lifting at least 20 million people out of poverty appears even further out of reach than when it was set; reiterates that one of the target groups is people that face severe material deprivation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to renew their commitment to the poverty reduction target by:
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 1
Paragraph 5 – indent 1
- prioritising decent living standards and reducing poverty and social exclusion and devoting a summit to it;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
- ending anyWelcoming social factors as part of economic governance and implementing effective social impact assessment to prevent EU policies in other policy areas that may lead to increase poverty;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
- reviewing indicators for individual Member States and proceeding to adjust said indicators in those Member States which, by their own account, are already meeting the objectives they have set themselves;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 b (new)
- highlighting the fact that Member States have several forms of social housing and these differences should be taken into regard;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to aim for a social triple A score for the Union; finds regrettable that this is currently out of reach owing to increasing inequality, high poverty and social exclusion and less and less availability of quality and affordable social, health and care services and social protection; recalls that a social triple A must be based on Article 9 TFEU aimed at a ‘high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion and a high level of education, training and protection of human health’; recalls that achieving a social triple A as a benchmark requires assessing both policies that hinder and work towards achieving the benchmark; finds regrettable that so far the latter has not been addressed at Union level;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. calls on the Member States, to introduce, according to national practices, minimum income schemes to avoid pockets of social exclusion in order to ensure a minimum income to households and curb household poverty;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls for a comprehensive strategy to fight poverty based on access to decent jobs leading to quality employment, services, and the activation of minimum income and social protection according to the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls upon Member States to take into account the fluctuations of living costs in their national support schemes for financially vulnerable groups such as unemployed, students, single-parent families, low-income families, widowed, permanently ill;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls the Commission to come up with a definition of vulnerable consumers; ask the Commission to gather impact assessments and collection of best practices of measures taken at national level to fight energy poverty;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that there is a structural lock- in effect as regards energy poverty, as poor households cannot afford the initial upfront investment, such as insulation and energy efficiency appliances, needed to combat energy poverty;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that targeting Union funding towards reducing energy costs of poor households living in inefficient housing an poor quality by investing in renewables or energy efficiency has multiple positive effects: at household level, it improves living conditions and the health of those concerned as well as decreasing household costs and therefore provides budgetary relief for poor families; at regional and local level, funding will provide for local investment, which will create jobs; at Union level it helps to both decrease poverty, improve energy efficiency and, decrease energy emissions and reduce unemployment; highlights the importance of targeting the Investment Fund towards such initiatives;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to exploit the full potential of the European Funds with regard to tackling energy poverty;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States not to exempt the energy intensive industries from taxes, but to use these revenues forto make measures that benefit low-income households, including social tariffs for vulnerable households targeted energy efficiency measures and financing of social security systems, which can in turn reduce the burden on labour costs; considers that such an offsetting mechanism could be an integral element of a socially equitable tax shift as proposed by the Commission in the current employment guidelines; underlines that effective social policy should be the main tool to prevent energy poverty;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to sign up to a European winter heating and electricity disconnection moratorium so as to ensure that during a defined winter period no household can be cut off from energy or that those who are must be reconnected to energy needed for heating that meets World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature; points out that such a moratorium aims to decrease excess winter mortality, supporting the most vulnerable groups, especially young children, the elderly and permanently sick and disabled people so as to protect their health and well-being;