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I voted in favour of this report, because I agree entirely that suddenly halting the scheme for food distribution that has hitherto been in operation, with another three years until the beginning of the new approved scheme for funding food distribution, is unjustifiable, particularly during the crisis. According to the Commission’s data, 43 million people in the EU are in food poverty, while another 80 million people in the EU risk falling into the poverty trap as a result of the economic and financial crisis and rising food prices. The answer to the ever-increasing poverty among people in the EU cannot be to end funding, without providing for any transitional measures. This is precisely why the European Parliament’s resolution calls on the Commission and the Council to develop a transitional solution for the remaining years of the funding period (2012 and 2013) so as to avoid an immediate and sharp cutback in food aid as a result of the reduction in funding from EUR 500 million to EUR 113 million and ensure that people dependent on food aid do not suffer from food poverty."@en1
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