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"The report on the European platform against poverty and social exclusion, submitted by Frédéric Daerden, highlights a depressing paradox: whilst 116 million Europeans are threatened with poverty and 42 million of them are experiencing extreme material deprivation, the EU 2020 strategy only sets a target of 20 million in terms of reducing the number of people threatened by poverty. Is this an acknowledgement of weakness or an admission of the abandonment of the principle of solidarity, one of the Union’s founding values? Unfortunately, it can be seen in this way, given the ‘solution’ for the Food Distribution Programme for the Most Deprived Persons of the Community: it will be safeguarded for 2012 and 2013, but with unacceptable conditions, namely, the definitive scrapping of this programme and the abandonment of any EU-level social policy from 2014. This proposal is a provocation at a time when citizens are sorely affected by the crisis and austerity plans. It threatens to reinforce the impression of economic, social and moral regression. This is why, out of respect for the idea of a progressive, supportive Europe, we must continue to rally round this programme: for my part, I shall be paying particular attention during the negotiations on the financial perspectives after 2013."@en1
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