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"Madam President, our Socialist fellow Members decided to address a question about homelessness to the Commission, and to submit a motion for a resolution alongside that question. The Group of the European People’s Party considers the question apt and justified. We also find the motion for a resolution that has been put forward to be worthy of support, and we do indeed support it. We naturally also agree that homelessness is one of the most extreme forms of poverty, of abject poverty, and we believe that in the 21st century, such a thing is unacceptable. We must also realise – and in this respect, the correct approach is inherent in the question – that we need to address this issue in a well-coordinated, cooperative and integrated manner, both in individual Member States and in terms of the cooperation between them. After all, homelessness is a terminus of sorts on the road to a person’s downfall, to his becoming outcast and isolated. It is a terminus where one finds oneself in a vicious circle: homeless people cannot find work. If they cannot find work, they have no chance of ever leaving homelessness behind. The problems then begin to accumulate: physical and mental deterioration, illness and often the formation of distinct, peculiar communities, as well as criminality and other problems. To break free from all this is obviously only possible through concerted efforts, and also programmes, in various fields: social services, health care, education and job creation. Any successful examples – and there have been successful examples in individual countries in the past, and even now there are some remarkable efforts – should be collected, because as they say, best practices should be brought together, and drawing on these it would be reasonable and useful for a European strategy to be formulated as well. For our part, we therefore welcome the question and welcome and support the motion for a resolution."@en1
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