Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-07-Speech-4-013-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-07-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110707.3.4-013-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-07-07-Speech-4-014-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Marije Cornelissen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2012-01-31)3 unknown; GroenLinks (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2011-03-23--2013-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, 13 million impoverished people depend on the European food programme. The European Union itself has created this dependence, and that includes Germany and all those other Member States that now suddenly want to put an end to this programme. It is inhumane to now allow those 13 million people to go hungry. An urgent solution needs to be found to this urgent problem. In the longer term, we hope that food aid will no longer be necessary in Europe. It is clearly a scandal that more than 40 million people have too little to eat on a continent that is as rich as ours. I expect the Commission and the Member States to do everything in their power to ensure that poverty has been cut by 25% by 2020, as we have promised. Even then, it will be another 40 years before poverty is completely banished from Europe, and people will need food aid for all that time. Over the last two years I have visited food banks throughout Europe, from France to Serbia and from Iceland to Slovakia. Some food banks are completely independent of the European programme, others absolutely not, but all of them could use some help. For many of them it is not food that is really the problem – they get that from supermarkets, farmers and businesses – the main way that we can help is with money and with expertise in relation to logistics, transport and storage. For the new budget period, we need to look into how we can best use European resources in order to help as many people in poverty as possible. Until then, there needs to be a proper transitional period during which we all take responsibility for the 13 million ultra-vulnerable Europeans who rely on us."@en1
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