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"I voted for Mr Daerden’s report on the European platform against poverty and social exclusion, which aims to focus attention on the economic insecurity or risk of insecurity that threatens more than 80 million Europeans. This is a particularly important initiative when we realise that the economic crisis that has been raging for over three years has mainly affected those who are most vulnerable. Unlike my group, I also supported paragraph 95 on a European minimum income. As it is certainly premature to discuss a figure, it is, however, our duty to agree on the principle and to call on the Commission to examine the possibility of legislation on the issue, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity.
I frequently have to repeat myself. The European Union has a social vocation. However, it can only exercise the competences that are conferred on it by the Member States and the European Parliament. So when ‘Europe says no’, it is often the Member States who are really doing the blocking. For proof, just take at look at the recent saga regarding food aid. We must, therefore, continue to fight against such national reluctance, scepticism and selfishness to advance towards a Europe of solidarity."@en1
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