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Activities of Viktória MOHÁCSI

Plenary speeches (21)

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
EU strategy on Roma (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Social package (First part) (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Creation of a Roma fingerprints database in Italy (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Situation of the Roma in Italy (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches (Rule 144)
2016/11/22
A European strategy on the Roma (debate)
2016/11/22
Combating the rise of extremism in Europe (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2007/2665(RSP)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Application of Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of citizens of the Union and their families to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States (debate)
2016/11/22
Free movement of Roma within the EU borders (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Roma women in the EU (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2005/2164(INI)
Roma women in the EU (vote)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2005/2164(INI)
Progress report on the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (debate)
2016/11/22
Human rights of minority groups in Kosovo
2016/11/22
The Roma in the European Union
2016/11/22

Opinions (2)

OPINION The situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2004 - 2007
2016/11/22
Committee: CULT
Documents: PDF(92 KB) DOC(75 KB)
OPINION Council Directive on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status
2016/11/22
Committee: JURI
Documents: PDF(352 KB) DOC(332 KB)

Written declarations (1)

Written declaration on race hate on the Internet

2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(70 KB) DOC(37 KB)
Authors: Glyn FORD, Bernd POSSELT, Viktória MOHÁCSI, Claude MORAES, Feleknas UCA

Amendments (33)

Amendment 93 #

2008/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a more effective prevention and combating of early school leaving under the motto that 'school pays off'; for that purpose, calls for the long awaited elimination of any and all inequalities of opportunities in educational systems in the EU, in particular, the elimination of low-level and segregated education which has irreversible negative effects on marginalised groups, particularly on Roma; calls for effectively organised education systems and school curricula adapted to tomorrow's economy;
2009/02/03
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 12 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas, following the enlargements of 2004 and 2007 the rate of unemployment rose in the EU and in the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, it is important to meet new challenges and whereas it is right that the European Parliament should therefore concentrate particularly on the situation in Eastern and Central European countries,
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 20 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas in thesecertain countries income disparities, which had been kept small during the period of State socialism, have grown at an explosive rate; whereas in the new Member States industrial sectors have collapsed, regions have seen their prospects of development decline and as a result the Roma in particular have been forced to the margins of society through the rapid escalation of poverty,
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 24 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the strategic political offensive to promote equal opportunities for Roma has to contend with an extremely complex social threat, as Europe's largest ethnic minority shares the disadvantages of other groups, and whereas this struggle is only possible with the aid ofa comprehensive EU Roma strategy regulating complex objectives and a coordinated set of instruments extending to a range of sectoral policies and with the aid of financing for them,
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 31 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the conditions in which Roma communities live, their health status and their level of schoolinglow level of segregated education determines their social and labour-market situation of the Roma and serve as a pretexts for their persistent unemployment and for racism, and whereas all this hampers improvements to the quality of life, thus preventing the exercise of the most fundamental human rights,
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 34 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas regional disparities and ghettoisation are increasing and whereas some settlements are surrounded by a ring of settlements whose fate is similar, from which it is impossible to break out because of poor public transport connections, the lack of public administrative bodies and institutions, including educational and health provision, and the departure of businesses, so that the more mobile young people are compelled to move elsewhere, further aggravating the exodus of human resources from these regions,deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas discrimination, increased segregation, the weakness of efforts to bring about integration, and the lack of motivation due to the hopeless situation may on the one hand increase prejudice against Roma to the point where serious conflicts occur, while on the other hand in reaction the Roma community may accept the dichotomy between the Roma and non-Roma worlds, so that - in the absence of tolerant and integrative social action - the division between them may become permanent,deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 43 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas, for numerous reasons, the special representation for the Roma's interests is not effective, while the success of Roma civil-society organisations in defending Roma interests depends on the politics of the given moment and while the legitimacy of the representation has often been called into question,deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 44 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas according to the numerous excellent documents, just before the end of the second period of the Lisbon Process it is unavoidably necessary to weigh up the social situation and employment prospects of the Roma and decide what should be done about them,
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 47 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas it is unquestionably important to acknowledge previous good practices, but whereas their validity is limited in time and area and whereas the reference to them may give rise to the illusion that 'everything is fine',deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 62 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the socioeconomicinstitutional barriers, the unequal access to services and the multiple disadvantage suffered bys facing Roma children in practice puts early development and quality education out of their reach throughout the region; notes that these disadvantages in turn determine their subsequent chances on the labour market;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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 Roma;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 75 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that, although the proportion of Roma young people in secondary and higher education has increased in certain Member states, 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;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that it is commoner for Roma that live in ghetto conditions to suffer from so-called 'diseases of poverty', that the unhealthy environment in which they live, pfoor diet and difficultd scarcity and unequal access to health services hamper their employment on the market and provide a pretext for denying them particular job opportunities;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the Member States have used substantial European Union and Member-State resources to help the long- term unemployed find work, but these have typically set in stone the existing situation; stresses thatat, despite this, the number of long- term unemployed people and their marginalisation have grown since enlargement;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Draws it to the attention of the Member States that this social dichotomy may 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 market into the legitimate sphere;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 111 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that Member States adopt as instruments concessionary credit or State interest subsidies and that, in the planning of farm subsidies, they make it an important objective to enable Roma communities to attain conditions in which they can earn a living from farming;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 114 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Considers it necessary to take account of the fact that, in practice, the elimination of Roma settlements cannot be achieved using EU resourcesis difficult to implement 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 reached;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that the proposal of a comprehensive directive against discrimination is an excellent opportunity to evaluate Directive 2000/43/EC; cConsiders that, in the spirit of the Social Agenda, the Commission should identify specific objectives with the aim of preventing and reducing discrimination against and stigmatisation of the Roma and criminalisation of Roma communities;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 126 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the importance of micro- credits, which are recommended from various points of view in the Commission document and the opinion of the European Social and Economic Committee and which, by providing a minimal resource, can set the poorest of the poor on the road to personal responsibility, business skills and development of their creative powers;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 135 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Observes that the low level of employment of Roma women is linked to the traditional Roma family model, the family role and the division of labour; considers that, in view of the particular traditions at issue, sexual equality need not absolutely entail full employment of Roma women, but rather the free choice of a strategy for life;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 141 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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 living;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 146 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that the policy of drawing primarily on immigrants to provide labour takes too restrictive a view; nNotes that it would be possible to create the largest pool of labour by activatinvolving older people, people with disabilities and poor, unskilled people, including most notably the Roma;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 153 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that, among Europe's cultures, that of the Roma is marked by a strong family tradition; observes that the image of Roma families in public opinion features an emphasis on traditional gender roles, large numbers of children, cohabitation by several generations, the tendency of relatives to live close together, and extensive cultivation of relationships, and that therefore, in European and Member-State programmes for Roma families, it is necessary to build on the strengths of this natural support network;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 162 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that Roma women's tendency to leave school early not only damages their own opportunities on the labour market but affects the health status and schooling of their children;deleted
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 167 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that the transmission of poverty and social exclusion can only be prevented most effectively at an early stage in life, that an appropriately supportive institutional environment is needed for children's development and that it is necessary to provide an institutional framework for early childhood services which meets regional and personal needs, guaranteeing equal access to quality services; notes, however, that, in disadvantaged areas where Roma live, early childhood services either are not available or, if they are, frequently suffer from inadequate infrastructure and therefore operate dysfunctionally; calls on the Commission, therefore, to provide particular support for programmes for the early integration of Roma children in all countries where European Union resources (Phare, IPA, Structural Funds) can be accessed;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 169 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that Roma children are over- represented in special schools, that a large proportion of them are assigned to such schools without justification, oftenmostly on account of poverty or discrimination; points out that attending special schoolsforcing children who have been unlawfully classed as mentally disabled to attend special schools is discriminative and seriously violates their fundamental right to quality education and gives rise to difficulties in further study and in finding work and to greater inactivity, at the same time forming a burden on budgets;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 187 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to assess specifically the impact of the objectives and instruments of each ofinvolved in the EU's Roma strategy, which is currently being drawn up, as well as in its sectoral policies on the Roma; calls on the Commission to ask Member States, in reports on integrated indicators and on the open method of coordination for social inclusion, to devote attention to changing the situation of Roma; calls on the Commission to monitor the extent of discrimination, regularly assess changes in the education, employment, social, health and housing situation;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 191 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission to enter into cooperation with the various international organisations to analyse the Roma questionissues related to the integration of the Roma, decide agendas, describe Roma issues with due seriousness on the basis of the summary reports drawn up by those organisations, and draw up an overall European assessment at least once every five years;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 198 #

2008/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Recommends that the Commission adopt more consistent and uniform expectations of all development programmes financed from EU resources from which it is possible to demand an account of the prevention or reversal of social exclusion of the Roma minority; considers that Member-State and EU bodies should examine all development which is financed from the Structural and Cohesion Funds from the point of view of the impact which the programme has on the social integration of the Roma people;
2008/11/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 3 #

2007/2202(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for strict monitoring of the application of the rules on the burden of proof and the filing of claims in the public interest;
2008/03/05
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 11 #

2007/2202(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that minority communities, and in particular the Roma one, need specific social protection, since the problems of exploitation, discrimination and exclusion have become even more acute in their regard further to enlargement in the areas of education, health, housing and employment;
2008/03/05
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 12 #

2007/2202(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recommends that, as regards access to quality education for disadvantaged and Roma children and their unjustified classification as disabled, special attention be paid to fighting all forms of discrimination encountered in the field of education;
2008/03/05
Committee: LIBE