Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-10-19-Speech-2-977"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-10-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development aspects of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Role of minimum income in combating poverty and promoting an inclusive society in Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20101019.6.2-977"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-19-Speech-2-9762
lpv:speaker	lp:Jaromír Kohlíček2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; TRAN (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I welcome the opening of a debate on the role of minimum income as an instrument in the fight against poverty. It is unquestionable that, in the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, this type of action is completely appropriate. The first question that I would like to ask is about the explanatory capacity of official data on unemployment, the average income, the percentage of people living in poverty and the setting of the poverty line. The average income is an indicator based on implausible, if not downright false, figures. If you add together the millions paid to various managers and the salaries of minimum income workers, the figure might be considered very unreliable. When comparing wages, managers and executives should be considered separately. In addition, the relationship between the incomes of citizens – measured, for example, as GDP per capita – has a very loose relation to the minimum wage. In Portugal and the Czech Republic, citizens’ income, measured by GDP, is roughly the same. The minimum income, however, varies by nearly 50%. The ‘poverty threshold’ and ‘at-risk-of-poverty rate’ are simply incomprehensible to my poor understanding. When I read that in Sweden, the at-risk-of-poverty rate for the population is 12%, in the Czech Republic 9%, but in Luxembourg 13%, I can only wonder. Despite these shortcomings, this report is certainly informative."@en1

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