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"Mr President, Commissioner, over 68 million people in the European Union – that is, 15% of its population – are at risk of poverty. The situation is even worse in countries outside the EU of 25. It follows that every possible EU instrument – whether the European Neighbourhood or Foreign Policies, development or finance policy – should be used to the utmost if we are to be able to alleviate poverty at home and abroad. National plans of action must include specific measures to alleviate poverty and the Commission must monitor the way in which they are implemented.
It is of the utmost importance that more attention be paid to women both in the European Employment Guidelines and in the Lisbon Strategy. The European Union’s development policy must do more to address poverty reduction, while, at the same time, international development policy must, as a matter of urgency, be analysed to ascertain to what extent groups at risk are either being helped or further marginalised. The World Bank, the G-8, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organisation must show their hands and set out the specific effects that their policies have had on women and poverty in the past and what the effect of them is now.
One possible result of poverty outside the EU’s 25 Member States is an increase in illegal immigration, people-smuggling, and criminal activity, with an eventual increase in the trafficking of women. We will therefore reiterate our long-standing demand that the Member States should, once and for all, legislate for a guaranteed minimum income."@en1
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