Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy

Tabled by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Matthias Ecke, Alex Agius Saliba, Lara Wolters, Gabriela Firea, Elisabeth Grossmann, Thomas Bajada, Daniel Attard, Matjaž Nemec, Bruno Tobback, Marco Tarquinio, Cecilia Strada, Sandro Ruotolo, Evelyn Regner, Estelle Ceulemans, Elio Di Rupo, Kathleen Van Brempt, Marc Angel, Pierfrancesco Maran, Rosa Serrano Sierra, Andreas Schieder, Isilda Gomes, César Luena, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Elena Sancho Murillo, Cristina Maestre, Sandra Gómez López, José Cepeda, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Jonás Fernández, Marcos Ros Sempere, Javi López, Aurore Lalucq, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Eric Sargiacomo, Jean-Marc Germain, Murielle Laurent, Pierre Jouvet, Nora Mebarek, Chloé Ridel, Gabriele Bischoff, Camilla Laureti, Emma Rafowicz, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Biljana Borzan, Romana Jerković, Marko Vešligaj, Dario Nardella, Raffaele Topo, Annalisa Corrado, Stefano Bonaccini, Brando Benifei, Jens Geier, Birgit Sippel, Tobias Cremer, Vivien Costanzo, René Repasi, Victor Negrescu, Marta Temido, Udo Bullmann, Maria Noichl, Bernd Lange, Thijs Reuten, Marit Maij, Mohammed Chahim, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Sabrina Repp, Klára Dobrev, Alessandra Moretti, Tonino Picula, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Sakis Arnaoutoglou, João Oliveira, Tiemo Wölken, Yannis Maniatis, Hristo Petrov, Claire Fita

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;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE782.065v01-00