Each decade that passes the middle class loses a percentage point of representation over the total population in advanced economies. To achieve an improvement in welfare levels, three main axes are necessary:– access to education– to universal health– and quality employment Read my article in diario.es
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Together with my colleague, socialist MEP Alícia Homs, I have sent a written question to the European Commission urging them to take steps to advance the European pillar of social rights, through innovative solutions to include vulnerable groups in national health systems and statistics. Despite the assumption that European countries have achieved universal health coverage,
Together with my colleague, socialist MEP Alicia Homs, I have requested health coverage for all groups in society, including the most vulnerable such as children or homeless people, as well as greater cooperation between national health systems. The most vulnerable people are excluded from health coverage, which is unacceptable and does not respect the international
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Together with my colleagues, the socialist MEPs Alícia Homs and Mónica Silvana González, I have asked the European Commission to develop programmes to adapt the skills of people with autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in order to guarantee them the education they need to access the labour market. In a written question addressed to
Socialist MEP Iban García del Blanco has sent a letter to the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, to express “his concern about the situation of vulnerability that various indigenous peoples are suffering, given the growing violence inflicted against them by illegal armed actors.” The letter, which has been signed by another 35 MEPs from different
On 19 November, I organised a conference on “The Working Poor and EU Free Movement” in collaboration with FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless) in the European Parliament in Brussels. The objective was to remember the barriers and problems that European citizens face when they move to another country of the
The free movement of workers in the EU still has its limitations Read More »
On November 11, I participated as a representative of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in a conference on “Promoting Social Mobility and Equal Opportunities” organised by the European Parliamentary Research Service, the ECSR (European Consortium for Sociolocial Research) and Population Europe (The Network of Europe’s Leading Demographic Research Centres). Today
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Together with the socialist MEPs Alicia Homs (member of the Employment Commission) and Mónica Silvana Gónzalez (member of the Development Commission), I call on the European Commission to develop a legislative initiative that recognises deafblindness as a unique disability.In a written question addressed to the European Commission, we have also demanded that legal recognition of
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On September 26 I participated in the event “Together at work – Time to Rebuild Collective Bargaining in Europe” in Brussels organised by Industriall talking about collective agreements that are positive not only because they increase wages but because they reduce inequalities, increase well-being of the workers and create a democratic culture. Today the middle
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