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"Mr President, Commissioner, on the one hand I am quite relieved today because a legal framework has been found to overcome the rather cynical approach of saying that ‘there is no budget heading for helping people’. I am also relieved to hear you say that you believe there will be a solution after 2013.
Nevertheless, I do believe that what we have here is only emergency treatment of the symptoms. What really worries me is European Union policy and, in particular, a number of statesmen and stateswomen who are pursuing precisely the policy that leads to poverty. There are very few cases where poverty and need in Europe can be traced back solely to natural disasters. The reality is that they can be traced back to an enormous financial disaster. What we decide here in Europe at this point will perhaps help bring about food distribution. What we need, however, is fair distribution. We need to act much earlier. We need to provide education and we need to provide jobs and incomes. The aim, as Mr Capoulas Santos said, must be that one day we will no longer need this aid. I say yes to food distribution now, as a remedial treatment of the symptoms. What we really need, however, is treatment of the causes, and that means fair distribution."@en1
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