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Parliament calls on the Commission to present a comprehensive, adequately funded EU anti-poverty strategy with the goal of eradicating poverty by 2035 at the latest, using a rights-based, life-cycle approach and involving people with lived experience of poverty.¶¶¶ The strategy should address poverty in all its dimensions, including fair working conditions, access to quality public services, housing, healthcare, education, and social protection, with special attention to child poverty, gender-based violence, and vulnerable groups.¶¶¶ It calls for adequate funding, including a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for the European Child Guarantee, and for strengthening the European Child Guarantee and other instruments to break intergenerational poverty.¶¶¶ It urges measures to combat homelessness, digital exclusion, and discrimination, and to ensure the participation of people in poverty in policymaking, with proper coordination and monitoring.¶¶¶
Key points
- Calls on the Commission to present an anti-poverty strategy that sets the goal of eradicating poverty by 2035 at the latest, with interim indicators and a monitoring framework.¶¶
- Urges the Commission and Member States to implement full and decent employment, strengthen active labour market policies, and tackle in-work poverty, including through collective bargaining and the Quality Jobs Roadmap.¶¶¶
- Calls for policies to ensure access to affordable essential goods and services such as food, energy, water, housing, transport and communications.¶
- Urges the Commission and Member States to increase public investment in universal access to high-quality public services, including healthcare, education, and social protection, and to address poverty's multidimensional aspects.¶¶
- Calls for a housing policy ensuring universal access to decent and affordable housing, with specific action to address homelessness, including a robust action plan to end homelessness by 2030.¶¶
- Calls for measures to close the gender employment and pension gaps, strengthen maternity and paternity rights, and support women's entrepreneurship and reintegration into work.¶¶¶
- Urges Member States to ensure universal access to affordable, high-quality public healthcare, including sexual and reproductive healthcare, and to address menstrual poverty with a comprehensive action plan.¶¶
- Calls for strengthening social security systems, addressing poverty among the elderly and youth, and creating inclusion pathways between informal and formal economies.¶¶¶
- Calls for prohibiting discrimination based on socio-economic status and for reducing non-take-up of social benefits by simplifying procedures and proactive outreach.¶¶¶
- Calls for the anti-poverty strategy to combat child poverty through a life-cycle approach, with a substantial dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for the European Child Guarantee and at least 5% of ESF+ funds for child poverty.¶¶¶
- Calls for ensuring children's right to family life, preventing institutionalisation due to poverty, and investing in foster care and deinstitutionalisation.¶¶
- Calls for mechanisms for the meaningful participation of people with lived experience of poverty in policymaking, and for an annual conference to assess implementation.¶¶
Who is affected
- People at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU, including children, women, Roma, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups.¶¶
- Member States, which are called on to implement policies on social protection, housing, healthcare, and education.¶¶¶
- The European Commission, which is asked to present the anti-poverty strategy and ensure its funding and coordination.¶¶
- People experiencing homelessness, who are targeted by measures to end homelessness by 2030.¶
- Women and girls, who are affected by gender-based violence, menstrual poverty, and the gender pension gap.¶¶¶
Figures and deadlines
- 93.3 million people in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024.¶
- 20 million children were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024.¶
- 27 million people were affected by severe material and social deprivation.¶
- At least EUR 20 billion dedicated budget for the European Child Guarantee.¶
- At least 5% of ESF+ funds to combat child poverty, with at least 10% for Member States with above-average child poverty.¶
- Goal to eradicate poverty by 2035 at the latest.¶
Legal basis: Articles 2 and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union; Articles 145 to 161 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union¶¶
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