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"Mr President, firstly, I welcome Parliament’s support for the programme. As you know, EUR 2.5 billion has been proposed by the Commission in the next multiannual financial framework. The Commission does indeed have the intention to exercise its right of initiative. I agree that food assistance forms part of our wider efforts to fight poverty in society and, most likely, this can only be accepted if it is part of a coherent set of instruments to promote social inclusion and, in particular, instruments that will be financed from the European Social Fund.
In response to Ms Cornelissen and several other honourable Members, I want to say that we do indeed want to fight for food assistance to be continued in the future too, as we have proposed, but we are aware that either an agreement or a definitive rejection has to be known early enough for food banks and charity organisations to be able to adapt to the decision.
To those who ask why we should have this programme, our answer is that, at a time when we have very concrete and commonly agreed targets for employment and for the fight against poverty, the European Union simply cannot ignore the fact that more than 43 million Europeans cannot afford a meal with protein every second day, and that over seven million of our children do not have three meals a day simply because their parents are too poor. In the face of this reality, European solidarity cannot just be seen as an ideal, but becomes instead a moral imperative."@en1
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