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"The scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union (which depends on the common agricultural policy) provides assistance to 13 million deprived persons through the allocation of EUR 500 million of European aid to 240 food banks, including
and the Red Cross. Almost 25 years after this initiative was launched, Germany has lodged a complaint against this mechanism, which allows social aid to be funded not through a social policy budget but through the agricultural policy budget. As this mechanism was found to be illegal, the European Commission has been obliged to announce its review. In order to prevent this aid of EUR 500 million being reduced to some EUR 100 million this winter, my fellow Members and I have asked the European Commission and the Member States to provide a transition mechanism in the short term and, in the medium term, to revise legislation to secure the future of this programme (I am personally calling for the European Social Fund to be involved). We are going to continue to fight on this issue as we cannot allow 13 million Europeans to be left by the wayside in this way!"@en1
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