<span style="color: rgb(0, 101, 189); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; ">In Europe, 79 million people live below the poverty line and among them, 30 million suffer from malnutrition.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 189); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 101, 189); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: x-small; ">(Source: Eurostat and European Congress of Experts on Nutrition, 2009)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 189); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0065bd" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font><div><a href="http://www.eurofoodbank.org/">http://www.eurofoodbank.org/</a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0065bd" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br>
</span></font><div><br></div><div>//</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.eurofoodbank.eu/portail/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138%3Aprolongement-du-programme-europeen-daide-alimentaire-aux-plus-demunis-pead-pour-2012-et-2013&catid=2&Itemid=27&lang=en">http://www.eurofoodbank.eu/portail/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138%3Aprolongement-du-programme-europeen-daide-alimentaire-aux-plus-demunis-pead-pour-2012-et-2013&catid=2&Itemid=27&lang=en</a></div>
<div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; ">In fact 18 million people in need, in a context of increasing poverty in most countries in Europe, were threatened by a sharp reduction of 75% of the programme. This "temporary relief" will give thousands of associations delivering food aid a little more time to try to find other sources of supply.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; ">But the issue remains unresolved after 2013 </p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">//</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Personal Note :</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I understand from articles on this topic that it are 6 european countries ( Germany, Denmark, the UK, Czech Republic, Sweden and The Netherlands ) who want the cost of such policies to be taken nationally, arguing , based on a decision of the european court of justice, that the program has deviated from its initial purpose.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Germany apparently already has a ( well ? ) functioning system of food redistribution, which leads it to be one of the main contributors to this european program without needing it in addition to its current approaches.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Yet, as is currently done to save the current financial system ( including by avoiding national defaults through european schemes ),</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I can not believe, if plans for prospectively thousands of billions of euros can be set up at a european level, </font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">that no european solidarity solutions can be set up to replace the loss of resources planned for food banks ?</font></p>
</div><div>//</div><div><br></div><div>french article :<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/11/14/01016-20111114ARTFIG00466-l-aide-alimentaire-de-l-europe-sauvee-jusqu-en-2013.php">http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/11/14/01016-20111114ARTFIG00466-l-aide-alimentaire-de-l-europe-sauvee-jusqu-en-2013.php</a><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Depuis six mois, les associations tremblaient : l'Union européenne avait prévu de diminuer de 80% l'aide distribuée chaque année pour aider les plus démunis à se nourrir. De 480 millions, le budget global devait passer à 113 millions d'euros. Impossible avec une telle réduction de continuer à aider les 18 millions d'Européens qui souffrent de la faim.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">«L'aide alimentaire ne représente finalement que 1 euro par an et par Européen», nuance Laurence Champier. «C'est une somme dérisoire par rapport aux moyens mis en place pour aider les banques, par exemple».</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">//</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Also see 2010 RT report :</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIA4coQHZ3k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIA4coQHZ3k</a></div>
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