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"Madam President, 8% of Europeans live in extremely impoverished conditions and cannot afford to meet their basic needs and thus live a decent life. Thousands of them, including a growing number of young people, women and children, sleep on the streets; others sleep in temporary and insalubrious accommodation. Without a home, most of the other fundamental rights are but a pipe dream; this is especially true of the right to work and to live as a family unit.
Yes, Commissioner, you have told us that the crisis has made the situation worse within the European Union, even though it is the world’s leading economic power. The austerity policies are hitting the most vulnerable people the hardest. You have listed the tools available to the European Union one by one. All this fine talk aside, what specific policies have the Member States actually implemented, when they are not even capable of providing statistics on the subject? Worse, some Member States are criminalising poverty more and more.
When will the resources needed to implement the Charter of Fundamental Rights finally be provided, especially for those who need it most? If we started with that, it would make all the fine talk about human rights and social Europe more credible."@en1
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