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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to make one thing clear in advance. As a Social Democrat, it is important to me to help needy people. However, for me the focus is primarily on creating jobs, in order to enable people to take care of themselves. In my opinion, the food aid programme for needy people in its current form is not the right way of helping people to help themselves. I see this as charity, which is damaging to people’s dignity.
It seems relatively clear to me that buying food and distributing it free of charge to needy people is not agricultural policy. It falls within the realms of social policy. Under the terms of the current legal basis, social policy is a matter for the Member States. In Germany there is a system of food banks. Volunteer helpers collect food which can no longer be used by supermarkets, for example. Given the fact that 89 million tonnes of food goes to landfill every year in Europe, initiatives of this kind make sense, but they are also charitable in nature. Let us create sensible infrastructures to ensure that people do not have to rely on charity. This means, for example, allowing them to be independent by providing good jobs and good pensions."@en1
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