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"en.20110914.24.3-331-843"2
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"The existence of the homeless is not a new phenomenon rooted in the current economic and financial crisis: they have always existed. We are used to seeing people sleeping in railway stations, underneath bridges, in the entrances to buildings, in run-down buildings, and so on. Yet the current crisis has only seen this socially deplorable and degrading situation worsen. Where, several decades ago these used to be people with drug- or alcohol-addiction problems, or bohemian beggars, today, due to worsening economic and financial conditions, especially the high interest rates that prevent many citizens from fulfilling their obligations towards banks, the paradigm has shifted: we now find young people, women and entire families living on the streets. Moreover, faced with this situation, the Member States remain inactive. At best, they move them from city centres to the peripheries so that they are not seen by tourists or near financial centres. We all have an obligation to protect the weakest in society. The Member States, alongside the European Union through the European Social Fund (ESF), have a duty to minimise this violation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which enshrines an end to homelessness. In view of this, I unconditionally support this motion for a resolution which aims to implement a strategy for combating homelessness, about whose existence we should be ashamed."@en1
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