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"Mr President, I take note of the importance many of you have attached to the future of the file on the private programme. I agree that the European Union’s social dimension takes particular importance in a time of crisis, uncertainty and hardship like the present situation today. The unemployed, the vulnerable and the socially excluded expect Europe to show solidarity and help them in practical and clear ways.
The main EU instrument to support the employability and inclusion of the most vulnerable members of our societies will, of course, remain a strong European Social Fund. That is why the Commission proposed a guaranteed minimum budget for the ESF representing at least 25% of cohesion policy and that at least 20% of the funding for each Member State should be allocated to social inclusion measures. We also proposed that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund be maintained and strengthened as a way to show real solidarity with newly unemployed workers in particularly difficult circumstances. In the Commission’s view, a programme to assist the most deprived people in Europe should form part of these efforts.
The harsh reality is that there will always be people in our societies in need of a programme of this kind and that is why the Commission’s proposal for the multiannual financial framework seeks to allow the EU budget to continue to finance full assistance under heading 1, where it also fits more appropriately with the poverty reduction target of the Europe 2020 strategy.
This would also be the best way to solve the legal impediment which was raised against the current scheme. As you know, discussions among the Member States on the legal basis for the current programme revealed difficulties in finding agreement on EU financial support for full assistance. The Commission had to take note of this, of course, but we will not give up on our right of initiative.
To conclude, in our view, the EU budget could support full assistance in the future as well in the framework of a wider effort to fight poverty. The Commission is currently looking at various options on shaping the future programme within the cohesion policy framework in a way that maximises the impact of the support the various cohesion policy funds can deliver.
We still need some time to work out a model which is both effective and realistic. Let me close by thanking Parliament for its very helpful contribution to our work and for raising this point for debate."@en1
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