The Employment Committee voted against creating a European minimum revenue, but the Parliament will revisit the issue in the October plenary.

No minimum revenue for Europe

An effect of the crisis:  85 million Europeans live in poverty,

Ignoring calls from civil society during  a vote of the Employment Committee,

MEPs wouldn't impose a European  minimum revenue on the Member States.

It’s a positive but insufficient report.

It should go further by supporting  a European directive on the matter,

but there was no majority  in the Employment Committee for it.

The rapporteur wanted to create  a minimum revenue at European level.

Its amount was fixed at 60% of  the average revenue of the given state,

as monthly salaries  vary greatly in the EU:

1,641 euros in Luxembourg  and 123 euros in Bulgaria.

That’s why we aren’t in favour  of setting a minimum revenue.

It would be too difficult  for each Member State to set,

according to the criteria  of a minimum revenue.

That’s why we decided to vote to leave  the initiative to the Member States.

In October all MEPs should give  their opinion on an EU minimum revenue.

The European left will try to tip  the balance in this vote in the plenary.