29 Amendments of Viktória MOHÁCSI related to 2008/2137(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
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,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
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,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
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,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
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,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
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,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
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;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 75 #
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 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;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
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;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
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;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
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;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
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;
Amendment 122 #
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; 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;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
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;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
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;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
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;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
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;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
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;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
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;