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"Madam President, Commissioner, a person, however poor he may be, who sees a homeless person as he is walking down the street thinks that he is worlds apart from him. It does not enter a poor person’s mind that he may at some point become homeless, and yet the difference is minimal, a hair’s breadth. That becomes clear in times of economic crisis.
The number of homeless people is growing at an alarming rate. We can feel it and I use that word advisedly, because there are no statistics. However, everyone in my country knows what is happening and can see what is happening in their street and in their neighbourhood. Where there is economic crisis, poverty follows. Where there is poverty, slowly but surely, a lack of jobs and work follows and ‘suddenly, a person becomes homeless. We need to combat this. We all need to help, not just each Member State separately. We need a European strategy, a European umbrella, if we are to achieve the ultimate objective which, in my opinion, should be the social reintegration of homeless people."@en1
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