Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap

12.5.2026 A10-0083/4

Amendment 4

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Tomas Tobé, Arba Kokalari, Jessica Polfjärd, Alice Teodorescu Måwe, Jörgen Warborn, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Vangelis Meimarakis, Georgios Aftias, Dimitris Tsiodras, Emmanouil Kefalogiannis, Fredis Beleris, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jeroen Lenaers, Miriam Lexmann, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Esther Herranz García, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Loránt Vincze, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Andrea Wechsler, Angelika Winzig, Javier Zarzalejos, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Axel Voss, Marion Walsmann, Esteban González Pons, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Gabriel Mato, Elena Nevado del Campo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Matej Tonin, Dolors Montserrat, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Giusi Princi, Francisco José Millán Mon, Paulo Cunha, Hélder Sousa Silva, Andrey Novakov, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Flavio Tosi, Lukas Mandl, Alexander Bernhuber, Sophia Kircher, Reinhold Lopatka, Jens Gieseke, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Monika Hohlmeier, Verena Mertens, Sérgio Humberto, Susana Solís Pérez, Emil Radev, Michalis Hadjipantela, Karlo Ressler, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Niebler, Lídia Pereira, Ana Miguel Pedro, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, François-Xavier Bellamy, Peter Liese, Pascal Arimont, Fulvio Martusciello, Seán Kelly, Andrzej Halicki, Adam Jarubas, Łukasz Kohut, Oliver Schenk, Alexandra Mehnert, Herbert Dorfmann

Report A10-0083/2026

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap

(2025/2039(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 56

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
56. Calls on the Member States to invest in a care economy and to implement the Council recommendations65 on the revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care and on access to affordable high-quality long-term care under the EU care strategy, and to include in their implementation reports the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping, together with strategies to encourage greater participation of men in the care sector, and to address undeclared care work, identifying the main drivers and proposing tailored solutions; calls on the Commission to ensure that the European Child Guarantee has clear objectives and priorities, with the allocation of an ambitious dedicated budget of EUR 20 billion, and encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure affordable, high-quality and accessible care services for early childhood care and eldercare;	56. Calls on the Member States to invest in a care economy and to implement the Council recommendations65 on the revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care and on access to affordable high-quality long-term care under the EU care strategy, and to include in their implementation reports the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping, together with strategies to encourage greater participation of men in the care sector, and to address undeclared care work, identifying the main drivers and proposing tailored solutions; calls on the Commission to ensure that the European Child Guarantee has clear objectives and priorities, with the allocation of a substantial budget, and encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure affordable, high-quality and accessible care services for early childhood care and eldercare;
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65 https://commission.europa.eu/document/c36247a2-55e7-428b-8ce5-707def3b8390_en; https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&furtherNews=yes&newsId=10382#navItem-3.	65 https://commission.europa.eu/document/c36247a2-55e7-428b-8ce5-707def3b8390_en; https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&furtherNews=yes&newsId=10382#navItem-3.

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