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"Madam President, Commissioner, this is the second time that the European Parliament has come together at short notice to question you on the issue of homelessness.
We did so in 2008, when the crisis had only just begun. Here we are back together today, in 2011, with a declaration that we drafted in 2010 and which reminds you of the urgent need to address this scandal within the European Union, this area which, in global terms, remains an area of wealth and so-called civilisation, and yet where, sadly, homelessness is rife in every single one of our towns. All the local councillors tell us that they take action day after day to help these people in distress whom the crisis has hit hard, be it in Athens, Berlin, Paris or Helsinki.
Can we accept the fact that a Union founded on solidarity is allowing homelessness, which is the most obvious symptom of poverty and social exclusion, to develop here and there? I remember the debate we had: ought the poverty eradication objectives to be integrated into the EU strategy? Would this be the responsibility of the European Union? I do not wish to relaunch the legal debate, since the bases have been established. They are enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. We have repackaged them as a political objective for the EU strategy.
Commissioner, it is your responsibility, and that of the College, to harness the tools at the disposal of the European Union so that the Stability and Growth Pact does not lead, in future, to indiscriminate cuts in any possible funding available to the services that help these people, those that carry out exemplary work in the community, those whom we call social workers, whose job is made almost impossible today, as demonstrated by the resignation in France of the founder of
Xavier Emmanuelli, which generated a certain amount of publicity.
The Commission can also intervene to encourage the Member States, not to apply the rules of competition to social housing, but to finance social housing, so that homelessness is no longer an urgent issue in future."@en1
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