Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă (S&D), in writing. – (RO) The latest statistics indicate that the number of single mothers is rising at an alarming rate across the European Union. In light of this, Member States need to focus attention on this matter as the main risk is poverty, which these women may fall into. Being a single mother in northern countries, where they are protected and helped, is quite a different experience to being a single mother in other countries, where they are subject to social exclusion.
I firmly believe that the European Union and Member States must devise more gender-focused strategies and identify common policies also based on the exchange of existing good practices in Europe, to make sure that single mothers are no longer discriminated against in any of the EU Member States.