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"Commissioner, poverty and social exclusion which, proportionately, affect more women than men – 20% compared with 19% of households headed by a man – are the modern form of social impoverishment and of violation of human rights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Unfortunately, no one has yet addressed this issue with efficient and radical reform. A new social map is needed, based on a specific and integrated strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion in all social classes, especially among women.
At European level, the most basic policy for combating poverty is to determine the minimum guaranteed income, which is something which could start to be applied to the female population on the margins of poverty. Such a policy will ensure that the entire population receives a satisfactory income. The minimum income is the income that needs to be used as a transitional stage, for reintegrating women into employment, and combined with development policies inside and outside the Community, with social insurance and health policies, social welfare policies, housing and child support policies, education and training policies, rural development policies and employment policies.
Cooperation between all the countries of the European Union, between local and regional authorities, is important and necessary in order to mitigate the new types of poverty among immigrants and the emergence of groups of
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Commissioner, as you well know, addressing poverty is not the priority of social policies, of Community policies and the Structural Funds. The Member States, like the Community, are strengthening the competitiveness of the European economy, rather than social issues, such as women's issues and poverty. The modern European model, Commissioner, cannot be put to shame by marginalised social classes such as women, with whom impoverishment begins."@en1
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