Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 3Adopted

   Paragraph 35 a (new)

   Tabled by Hristo Petrov, Jana Toom, Brigitte van den Berg +83 · Members

   Added: 35a. Stresses the importance of overcoming administrative obstacles that may prevent vulnerable groups, such as Roma, from accessing essential services and social protection, as these barriers perpetuate and exacerbate poverty and exclusion; underlines that national identification numbers could facilitate equal access to essential services while maintaining administrative clarity and accountability;

2. Amendment 4Adopted

   Paragraph 48 a (new)

   Tabled by Hristo Petrov, Jana Toom, Brigitte van den Berg +94 · Members

   Added: 48a. Welcomes the recent update of the monitoring framework for the European Child Guarantee1a and the inclusion within the framework of new indicators to improve the effectiveness of monitoring progress in the implementation of this instrument in the Member States; underlines the important role of data collection and monitoring systems in understanding the obstacles faced by vulnerable children and in enabling tailored interventions and resource allocation; calls on the Social Protection Committee to continue its work to improve the monitoring framework in order to maintain its relevance and address remaining data gaps and on Member States to use this common monitoring framework while adapting it to their specific circumstances with regard to child poverty; ___________________ 1a Social Protection Committee, ‘Update of the monitoring framework for the European Child Guarantee (Autumn 2025)’, 4 February 2026, https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/circabc-ewpp/ui/group/bab664d7-1188-47b2-9fa6-869902320ba2/library/d7064b47-8a07-47b6-8d9f-0dc08849f2b7/details.

3. Amendment 5Adopted

   Paragraph 55 a (new)

   Tabled by Hristo Petrov, Jana Toom, Brigitte van den Berg +94 · Members

   Added: 55a. Recalls the EU objective of transitioning from institutional to community or family-based care; recognises the opportunity provided by the anti-poverty strategy to build bridges with the European Child Guarantee, in particular with measures to support the target group of children in institutional care; calls on the Member States to make full use of the ESF+, as well as other relevant European and national funds, in order to finalise the deinstitutionalisation process so as to ensure that children can live in a family or community environment;

4. Amendment 6Adopted

   Paragraph 31

   Tabled by Marit Maij, Mohammed Chahim, Thijs Reuten +78 · Members

   31. Removed: Notes that a lack of adequate access to menstrual hygiene products and facilities affects Added: Recognises menstrual poverty as a structural form of poverty and gender inequality in the EU, affecting an estimated 10 % of the menstruating Removed: population, and disproportionately affects marginalised and vulnerable groups, limiting Added: population; underlines its disproportionate impact on women and girls on low-income, refugees, asylum seekers, young people, homeless people, persons with disabilities, and others in vulnerable situations; stresses that menstrual poverty seriously limits participation in social, educational and professional life; calls on the Commission Removed: and the Member States to propose comprehensive measures to tackle this, Added: to develop a comprehensive action plan as part of the EU anti-poverty strategy, ensuring free or affordable access to menstrual products, Removed: including through adequate facilities in the workplace and in schools; Added: information and adequate sanitary facilities, particularly in public places such as educational institutions, workplaces, public buildings and reception centres;

5. Amendment 7Adopted

   Paragraph 50

   Tabled by Martine Kemp, Alexander Bernhuber, Alice Teodorescu Måwe +75 · Members

   50. Calls on the Commission to ensure Removed: that Added: the allocation of a substantial dedicated budget to the European Child Removed: Guarantee has a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion in the 2028-2034 MFF, Added: Guarantee, implemented through the ESF+, in order to respond to the growing challenges …

6. Amendment 8Adopted

   Paragraph 47 a (new)

   Tabled by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Matthias Ecke, Alex Agius Saliba +75 · Members

   Added: 47a. Recalls Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s commitment, in 2019, to ensure that every child in Europe at risk of poverty or social exclusion has access to the most basic of rights, such as healthcare and education, which was followed by the adoption, in 2021, of a Council recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee; stresses that the objectives of the European Child Guarantee cannot be achieved without an ambitious dedicated budget at both EU and national level; reiterates, in this context, its call for a substantial dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for the European Child Guarantee; underlines the urgent need for this dedicated budget to be allocated in the next multiannual financial framework in order to respond to the growing challenge of child poverty and social exclusion;

7. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 63 a (new)

   Tabled by Marie Toussaint, Rasmus Andresen, Manon Aubry +72 · Members

   Added: 63a. Welcomes the planned coordination between the European affordable housing plan and the upcoming EU anti-poverty strategy; welcomes, furthermore, the focus put on the Housing First approach; underlines that fighting homelessness requires resources at both Member State and EU level; calls for a dedicated budget and a new work plan for the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness under the next European Pillar of Social Rights action plan; calls for the EU ensure the eradication of homelessness by 2030 at the latest;

8. Amendment 10Rejected

   Recital AG a (new)

   Tabled by Sirpa Pietikäinen, Manon Aubry, Gordan Bosanac +73 · Members

   Added: AGa. whereas according to the European Environment Agency report of 2018 entitled ‘Unequal exposure and unequal impacts’, people experiencing poverty are more likely to live in substandard and energy-inefficient housing located in polluted or environmentally degraded areas, resulting in higher exposure to environmental hazards; whereas this disproportionately affects certain population groups facing structural discrimination, including Roma and Traveller populations, as well as low-paid workers such as cleaning workers, thereby reinforcing health and social inequalities;

9. Amendment 11Rejected

   Paragraph 46 a (new)

   Tabled by Sirpa Pietikäinen, Manon Aubry, Gordan Bosanac +73 · Members

   Added: 46a. Calls on the Commission to include in its anti-poverty strategy an environmental justice agenda that could lead to an environmental justice strategy; calls, furthermore, on the Commission to work on environment-related indicators and data, including on exposure to environmental hazards and on safe, adequate and habitable housing conditions, to enrich the anti-poverty strategy, and to include environmental health considerations, notably those linked to unhealthy or polluted housing conditions, in its efforts to combat poverty;