Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-28-Speech-3-330-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-09-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:"Food for Free" programme (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110928.22.3-330-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-09-28-Speech-3-331-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AGRI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Sawicki, ladies and gentlemen, the debate we are having here today should not even have had to take place. The most basic common sense and feeling of solidarity should already have resolved the problem that we are here today to discuss. According to the estimate of the European Union itself, in Europe, which we consider to be the exponent of prosperity, freedom and justice, there are currently more than 40 million people at risk of food poverty, that is, without access to a full meal every two days. In 2009, 440 000 tonnes of food were distributed to about 18 million people. No one is in any doubt that the situation will be worse in 2012. The economic and financial crisis, which continues to escalate, has thrown many people and families into unemployment against a backdrop of drastic cuts to social policies. The attitude of the six Member States that blocked legislation enabling funding for food aid in 2012 to be maintained at the level of previous years is therefore incomprehensible and unacceptable. However, I welcome the gesture of the Commission – represented by you, Commissioner – which has tried to find a suitable legal solution to circumvent the issue raised by the Court of Justice. The attitude of the Council reveals a shocking social insensitivity which goes against all the values on which European integration is based. I therefore completely denounce the recent position of the Council of Ministers for Agriculture and call upon the Polish Presidency and the Heads of State or Government to resolve this problem once and for all at their next meeting, to overrule their Ministers for Agriculture, and to once again espouse the idea of solidarity and justice characteristic of Europe, which some ministers unfortunately seem to have forgotten."@en1
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