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"Mr President, allow me, first of all, to say how pleased I am, just as other colleagues are in today’s debate, that President Barroso had the decency to mention this important topic of food aid programmes in his speech that he gave this morning on the state of the Union. At present, 18 million Europeans benefit from this programme. This means that more than one European in 30 has received food aid. The whole EU is battling against the repercussions of the crisis, and the risk of poverty has increased. The fight against social exclusion is one of the most important aims of the European Union’s social policy, and the lack of food is the toughest of all forms of exclusion.
Just this morning President Barroso said here before us in Parliament that the intention of political institutions is to make possible what is necessary. This is why I firmly believe that solutions can be found to get us out of the current legal stalemate.
As far as the costs involved with food aid are concerned, we should remember that every European citizen produces 180 kilograms of food refuse every year, which is an astounding level of waste. This means that every year half of the food in Europe is thrown away and turned into refuse. Limiting this waste would enable us to provide the necessary food to all the poor people in Europe and more. It is ethically unacceptable to ignore these people. Food aid programmes, which have been operating successfully for a quarter of a century, must continue."@en1
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