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"Mr President, thank you very much for your understanding. I will try to choose the best question!
The honest answer is the following: this is a consultation document; it is not yet a strategy, and I very much welcome your input.
Let me tell you my personal opinion. Yes, we have to do more to fight poverty and social exclusion but for that, we need the support of our Member States. I can tell you that I have proposed concrete measures several times and have received a very loud ‘no’, with the argument that some Member States view social matters as something for them, and not for Europe.
That is an interesting debate. Let us see if we agree on this matter. I very much expect to have your support on this because, as you know, to fight social exclusion and poverty, we also need some instruments at European level that complement the instruments at national level. I am telling you the position that I will be defending. I hope all the Member States will be ready to support this view."@en1
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