Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-23-Speech-4-029-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-06-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2012 draft budget trilogue (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110623.4.4-029-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-06-23-Speech-4-030-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Estelle Grelier2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2012-06-16)3 substitute; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-06-16)3 member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2012-06-16)3 substitute; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (2009-07-14--2012-06-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank our rapporteur and praise the quality of the draft text of this mandate for the trialogue, which stresses the urgency of finally mobilising the annual budgets for the benefit of the Europe 2020 strategy and in a way that is consistent with the European semester approach. Nevertheless, the negotiations promise to be difficult, since the Commission’s guiding principle is to satisfy, by presenting a squeezed budget, the austerity requirements imposed by the Member States, while ignoring citizens’ needs. In this respect, the fate awaiting the food aid programmes targeting the most impoverished populations is symptomatic. Like many of my fellow Members, Commissioner, I was informed by the press that the European Commission is planning to drastically cut funding for the Most Deprived Persons (MDP) programme. Thus, it would be divided by four, from 500 million this year to only 113 million next year. The Union currently spends EUR 1 per capita and per year to defend the fundamental principle of these citizens’ right to food, in a rationale of European solidarity. The scrapping of this symbolic euro on the altar of national self-interests and budgetary austerity illustrates Europe’s moral and political failure. It is often said that the level of development of a human society can be measured by how it cares for its most vulnerable and deprived members. To cite technical and legal difficulties as an excuse for dismantling this food aid programme is disastrous not only for the people concerned but also for Europe’s credibility and image. The Commission is making fools of MEPs and the citizens they represent by proposing amounts in April and then dividing them by four two months later. Commissioner, I hope that you will change your mind on this particular decision, and that you will not remain deaf to the political objectives and budgetary intentions thereof which are expressed in this mandate for the trialogue."@en1
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