Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-11-15-Speech-2-027-000"
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"Madam President, I should like to begin by thanking our rapporteur, Mr Daerden, for his excellent work.
Commissioner, you fought and managed to get the objective of combating poverty included in the Europe 2020 strategy. Our current fear is that, with austerity plans, this essential objective may be overlooked.
The conclusion of the agreement on the European food aid programme has left a nasty taste in my mouth as I fear that France and Germany have signed up to abandoning it definitively after 2014. That is not the thrust of the Europe 2020 strategy. We have a sovereign debt crisis and yet nothing should make us deviate from this strategy, as it is our road map, the one that we set for ourselves.
In the fight against poverty, we must, in the platform that you have introduced, work on more precise indicators, as we still lack the ability to intervene in a targeted fashion with quantified objectives. This would allow us to benefit from intervention from the European Social Fund, in particular, targeted precisely at real trends in poverty.
Then we would like the issue of minimum income to be raised clearly. We are calling for a consultation by the European Commission on a legal proposal of this nature. That, Commissioner, is your responsibility. We are also calling for the issue of accessibility to social services of general interest to be maintained.
Finally, we are calling for the horizontal Anti-discrimination Directive to see the light of day. This is also crucial if this platform for combating poverty and social exclusion is to be a success."@en1
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