Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-22-Speech-2-262"
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"Mr President, today the headline of the French newspaper
read: ‘You cannot buy much more for 1 euro’. Increasing food prices, inflation and increasing oil prices are eating away at the family budget. The social consequences of the recession are increasingly making themselves felt.
analysis undoubtedly applies to other Member States too. Some speakers have already pointed out in this debate that, it is all too often forgotten that the purchasing power problem also constitutes a problem for Europe. We all welcome solidarity with the Third World, myself included. As the old saying goes, however: charity begins at home. If we forget that, Europeans will once again be at risk of turning their backs on a policy that they do not understand, particularly if it is not also tailored towards them.
We have heard it all: the Commission is monitoring the situation. The Commission has allocated hundreds of millions in emergency aid for the people most affected. We could only applaud all these acts of good will, were it not for the fact that they again attest to this typically European malady
. At this moment, I would like to point to just two paradoxes. The Commission says that it is doing all it can to put a stop to the decline in purchasing power. Yet how do you explain to Europeans that you want to maintain the purchasing power, when they are the only ones who will have to raise EUR 200 per family per year for an ambitious climate plan? How do you intend to develop biofuels for our energy requirements and at the same time combat the food shortage? These are just two elements in a major debate, to which too little attention is paid."@en1
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