I share your concerns about the rise in the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the European Union. – Mr President, I would like to start by thanking the rapporteur, Mr Meszerics, for this very comprehensive report, which confirms once again that poverty is a complex phenomenon with several causes, such as the increasing household costs in Europe. Marianne Thyssen, Member of the Commission. Nobody should die in Europe because of not having heating available. In Eastern Europe we do not have a meaningful social housing system, and that contributes to, and exacerbates, the problem.įinally, I would like to mention that we believe that a winter disconnection moratorium on heating is a must. Eastern Europe is significantly different in this respect to Western Europe. That is why what we are asking for primarily is to have a complex policy set which simultaneously attacks all the three elements of energy poverty, one of them being insufficient income, another being energy efficiency – basically the quality of the housing stock in much of Europe. Simple direct income support is not going to help those who are in this trap, because it requires an upfront investment. I would like to defend the view that energy poverty, or fuel poverty, is one of the most important elements in this, because it usually requires an upfront investment. So some of my colleagues, with an honest conviction, thought that selecting a particular type of poverty from the complex web of poverty might be a mistake. At the same time, energy prices have been continually rising in the last almost half a decade, which makes the problem more serious than we would have thought at the time when the anti-poverty target was put together.Īt the time when this was formulated there was a widespread consensus that poverty is a complex global phenomenon which requires complex global treatment. They are essential especially because we are more and more dependent, individually and in groups, on energy. I believe that, fundamentally, energy and water are essential resources which are necessary for the survival of any household in the European Union. The report is not on that, but one of the key elements in this attempt to reduce poverty in the European Union is related to basic resources, household costs and household expenditure. This is only partly due to the financial crisis of 2008 – after all, we are in the ninth year after the crisis – so we have a basic structural problem. We are actually, by all important measurements, further away from the 2020 anti-poverty targets than when they were originally formulated. We are not getting any closer to the 2020 anti-poverty target. Although I am listed as the author, I have to thank all my colleagues in my Group and especially my advisers, who helped considerably in putting together a text which has a chance of passing, and which I hope will pass on the vote today. It was very important that the shadows put their work and their commitment into the whole topic.
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First of all, allow me to thank everybody who has contributed to the work, especially the shadow rapporteurs, who have been very helpful, very flexible and very professional in working out a text which I believe can command a fairly large consensus in the House. – Mr President, I think the topic we are going to discuss at this early hour on the last day of our part session this week is very important. – L'ordine del giorno reca la relazione di Tamás Meszerics, a nome della commissione per l'occupazione e gli affari sociali, sul raggiungimento dell'obiettivo di lotta contro la povertà alla luce dell'aumento delle spese delle famiglie ( 2015/2223(INI)) ( A8-0040/2016).
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