Procedures
247 votesAn EU cardiovascular diseases strategy
Require Member States to restrict tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food advertising to children to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors.
Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure
Protect critical infrastructure and democratic processes by integrating civil-military cybersecurity countermeasures, increasing intelligence sharing, and eliminating high-risk foreign technology dependencies.
Global role of the euro
Develop a common European safe asset and sovereign digital payment infrastructure to promote euro-denominated trade, reduce dollar reliance, and secure macroeconomic autonomy.
The EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027
Mandate systematic youth-impact assessments for EU legislation while funding targeted employment, affordable housing, and mental health services for young people.
Implementation of the Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and replacing the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee
Enforce quality standards, social protection, and individualised support in national youth employment schemes to integrate vulnerable unemployed youth into the labour market.
Written Explanations
Written explanations of vote submitted after plenary sessions.
Protection of minors online
Social media has many problems which affect young people in negative ways. While I theoretically agree that there should be some age limit, it is very difficult to enforce it in practice. If providing age is purely declarative, then children will simply lie about their age, which is the situation today when platforms’ terms of service impose an age limit. Using eID means to prove your age to a social media platform is disproportionate. eID means are intended mainly for proving your identity for serious tasks such as e-government services and private services which require a high degree of security, such as banking. It is theoretically possible under eIDAS to prove your age without revealing your identity, but there are no guarantees that social media will implement this and refrain from asking for more than they need. Many citizens will not understand these intricacies, they will believe that using the eID always equates to proving your identity and they do not want this for social media. This will reduce trust in eID and will hamper its uptake, which harms our digitalisation efforts. This is why I voted against this report. All measures to tackle this problem need to be proportional.
No written explanations available.