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In March 2000 the European Council invited Member States and the Commission to take steps to make ‘a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty’ by 2010. This would happen through the Open Method of Coordination, which is in itself positive since the method adopts a decentralised approach.
Action to combat poverty is an extremely urgent matter. However, this work should be carried on in all essential respects by the Member States in cooperation with international organisations having broad democratic legitimacy, such as the United Nations.
We take a negative view of several points in the Commission’s proposal and, not least, in the European Parliament’s report which, among other things, highlights the value of structural support and the need for the EU to provide support to extremely remote regions. We also take a critical view of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, an awareness-raising year which features prominently in the report in question. There have already been international years and campaigns of this kind. We must ask ourselves whether it is worth appropriating EUR 17 million for such an EU Year and what the concrete added value is. We are convinced that these financial resources would do more good in the national budgets of Member States, where they would make a real contribution to the urgent fight against poverty and social exclusion.
On the basis of the above arguments, we have voted against the report."@en1
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