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Lívia Járóka: The situation of the most disadvantaged communities must be dealt with on the upcoming Council Summit

27 October 2012
1 minute read

In her one minute speech MEP Lívia Járóka welcomed the European Council’s
commitment towards boosting employment and social inclusion and expressed her
hope that the upcoming summit in November would reinforce the proposals aiming
at the most disadvantaged communities.

Lívia Járóka, Rapporteur of the EU strategy on Roma inclusion delivered a one
minute speech on yesterday’s plenary session, welcoming the conclusions of the
European Council meeting last week. She confirmed that boosting employment and
social inclusion remained a priority of the utmost importance and called on
Member States to draw the social consequences of the crisis and to fight poverty
and social exclusion. Járóka reminded that the stumbling of the world economy
and the debt crisis strangling the European Union had accelerated the harmful
tendencies, due to which fewer and fewer people were able to maintain a proper
standard of living and for more and more European citizens even everyday
subsistence represented an insoluble challenge.

According to Járóka, the upcoming extraordinary summit of the European
Council aiming at the finalization of the next Multiannual Financial Framework
will be a crucial factor in improving the hopeless situation of the poorest
Europeans. "The Commission and the Parliament have introduced proposals to give
priority to the integration of the most disadvantaged communities. I truly hope
that the fourteen EPP Group governments will unanimously promote these
amendments in the Council, thus enabling regional policy to help the most
deprived and most marginalized 30 million Europeans" – Járóka Lívia concluded.

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