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"Madam President, I would like to thank all my colleagues and also the Commission, the Council and the Belgian Presidency for what they have said here, but I would like to emphasise three points that several Members have also stressed.
First of all, good words and good intentions are not enough. There needs to be a practical dimension to this European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. There needs to be a change in policies. People need to be put first. There needs to be an awareness that it is the workers who create the wealth, and that they need decent wages, but that in order to create more wealth, we need more jobs. More jobs, that is, with rights and fair wages. Yet there also needs to be another kind of redistribution of wealth and income, and in this context, the minimum income system is a vital tool to help in this fight, maintaining minimum incomes that may differ from country to country, but which share a common objective ..."@en1
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