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"Mr President, as Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, I and Mr De Castro, who chairs the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, wished to raise this topic again here in plenary, partly in the light of the initial declarations made on behalf of the whole College of Commissioners on 15 February, in which it was stated that the Commission intended to use its exclusive right of initiative to bring a proposal back to the negotiating table whereby this programme could be funded under the next financial framework.
As you know, you will have Parliament’s full support for such an initiative; however, we are asking you to go further. We feel that this programme must not be held ransom to intergovernmental talks on the common agricultural policy, nor should we subject it too literally to European Court of Justice judgments without reclaiming the legislative initiative. We are therefore calling for this programme to be a genuine solidarity programme; in other words, it should not be a burden on the European Social Fund. Otherwise, as I have already said, we will be using the poor to organise solidarity for the poor. That is not what we need.
Lastly Commissioner, I would like to draw your attention to another matter: many people in this Parliament do not support macro-economic conditionality – you will never have our support for that – but do support subject-related conditionality and concentration on specific subjects.
One of the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy is to combat poverty and social exclusion. This provides all the legitimate basis we need for funding aid to the most deprived out of the EU budget. We ask you to strive for this, and to try to bring on board the Member States that are dismissing this call. Instead of counting them on a list, why not persuade them, and use your exclusive right of initiative as a means of prodding them along?"@en1
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