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"en.20111026.16.3-189-015"2
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"While the European agriculture ministers have, yet again, failed to find a solution to maintaining the European Food Aid Programme, an amendment calling for the maintenance of the budgetary envelope allocated to this programme has been adopted with broad support by the European Parliament. If any programme deserves support, it is quite clearly the Food Aid Programme. Unfortunately, despite the support of the European Parliament, the European Commission, the great majority of Member States and the mobilisation of associations on the ground, six Member States (Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom and Sweden) continue to oppose this and to stand in the way of any solution. This is unacceptable. At the current time, the very least we can do is to guarantee annual funding of EUR 480 million. There are ways out of the deadlock: the European Commission has proposed that we use the food surpluses of the CAP and we purchase supplementary food from the market as a temporary measure, on the legal basis of social cohesion. We expect Europe’s leaders to assume their duty of solidarity. The Food Aid Programme’s future must be assured. Any other solution would be unacceptable."@en1
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