Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

Added114. Urges the Commission to strengthen monitoring, auditing and direct community involvement to guarantee that every euro reaches its intended beneficiaries and contributes to a genuine improvement in the living conditions of disadvantaged and marginalised groups, including ethnic minorities and people affected by the green and digital transition; calls on the Member States to ensure respect for the European Social Charter and the European Pillar of Social Rights; calls on the Commission to closely monitor their implementation and to take action in cases of insufficient implementation;

Added115. Expresses concern that housing is treated as a commodity; calls for increasing access to social and affordable housing and for adopting long-term, rights-based housing strategies that are also focused on the prevention of homelessness; urges the Commission to ensure that the forthcoming EU affordable housing action plan prioritises accessibility, affordability and energy efficiency, and to consider the establishment of a dedicated fund;

Added116. Underlines the importance of providing access to justice, transparency and participation in environmental matters; requests that measures aimed at achieving a high level of environmental protection and improving the quality of the environment, as enshrined in Article 37 of the Charter, be integrated into the policies of the Union; reiterates its call for the right to a healthy environment to be recognised in the Charter; urges the EU and the Member States to take immediate action to fight climate change; reiterates its call on the Commission to extend the mandate of the EPPO to include environmental crimes;

Added117. Recalls that poverty constitutes a violation of human dignity, undermining the full realisation of fundamental rights as recognised by the Charter and Article 9 TFEU; stresses that the fight against poverty must therefore be a central priority for the EU and all Member States; calls for the integration of poverty eradication objectives into relevant EU economic, social and environmental policies through a mainstreaming approach aligned with the European Pillar of Social Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 1); urges the Commission to enshrine the eradication of poverty as a horizontal objective in the next EU strategic cycle and to establish clear governance and monitoring mechanisms;

Added118. Reiterates that access to an adequate income is a prerequisite for living a life in dignity; notes that, as a follow-up to the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion, an EU directive on adequate minimum income could contribute to the goal of reducing poverty by at least half in all Member States by 2030;

Added119. Calls on the Commission to develop a European anti-poverty strategy with the aim of eliminating poverty by 2035, including measurable intermediate targets; urges the Commission to create an EU anti-poverty task force, with the aim of monitoring the implementation and coordination of the upcoming EU anti-poverty strategy and of tracking multidimensional poverty and inequality across Member States; calls for structured participation of people experiencing poverty and their representative organisations;

Added120. Highlights that poverty intersects with gender, age, disability, ethnic origin, migration status and rural or regional disadvantage; calls for targeted anti-poverty measures; stresses that combating intersectional poverty requires a combination of measures, including anti-discrimination policy, quality employment, affordable services, and measures enhancing employability;

Added121. Recognises that the meaningful participation of people experiencing poverty is essential to democratic legitimacy and the effectiveness of anti-poverty policies; calls for permanent dialogue structures at EU and national levels with CSOs and social partners in order to enhance social inclusion;

AddedLooking beyond 2025

Added122. Recalls that the foundations of the EU project included the well-being of people as a pillar and considers that, regardless of any geopolitical, security and socioeconomic challenges, the EU cannot disregard the social and fundamental rights dimensions on which it was built; requests that the Commission duly take into account the well-being of individuals, including the most vulnerable, in all existing and upcoming EU policies, and to include food and health security in its political security agenda;

123. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.