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"en.20111115.27.2-268-000"2
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"Madam President, this report comes at a time when poverty is returning on a mass scale to haunt Europe. There are 116 million people in the EU at risk of poverty. Youth unemployment rates now stand at over 40% in Greece and Spain, in Ireland it stands at over 29%, and because of the driving down of wages and conditions, even those with a job are not immune from the risk of poverty, with 22% of those still at risk of poverty.
The fact that this report was passed by a large majority brings to mind the quote from Shakespeare, ‘words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart’. This is precisely the same Parliament that has voted in favour of the likes of economic governance, in support of savage austerity dressed up as so-called fiscal consolidation: the same policies of savage attacks on people’s living standards, savage attacks on public services that have resulted in more people being at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
If we are serious about tackling poverty, it means putting an end to austerity, it means tackling the power of the 1% in society – the speculators, the banks, the big corporations like the energy companies that will profit this winter while thousands die of fuel poverty. It means tackling that power, taking wealth and power out of those hands and using it instead to invest and to create jobs and public services."@en1
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