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"The decision by the European Commission, on 19 June, to cut aid to the most deprived persons from EUR 500 million to EUR 113 million has dropped a bombshell on the charities landscape in Europe. This decision by the Commission, which comes one year after the European Year for Combating Poverty, and against the backdrop of the EU 2020 strategy’s objective of reducing poverty and social exclusion, is utterly astonishing. Furthermore, the fact that no mechanism has been introduced to replace it is even more astonishing, especially given that we are in a time of crisis. Consequently, I voted in favour of the joint resolution by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left on the scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union. Indeed, by means of this resolution, MEPs, independent of their political allegiance, are entreating the Commission and the Council to find a transitional solution to the funding of the scheme for the period 2012-2013, in the event that it is no longer funded by the common agricultural policy."@en1
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