欧州連合の予算で支援されている食料銀行の2014年からの予算は、財政削減で、将来が不安
La Unión Europea debate dejar sin fondos a los bancos de alimentos
En España dan de comer a dos millones de personas al año, el doble que en 2007
Charo Nogueira / Luis Doncel Madrid / Bruselas 4 SEP 2012 - 21:03 CET
The European Union funds set aside discussion food banks
In Spain they feed two million people a year, twice in 2007
Charo Nogueira / Luis Doncel Madrid / Brussels 4 SEP 2012 - 21:03 CET
Dan feed two million people in Spain, twice in 2007, and its future is in the eaves. Food banks, the crisis turned into a pantry with increasing demand, have an uncertain future. Funded by the EU since 1987, with twenty members as beneficiaries, their support in 2014 will depend on the new European budgetary framework. The stakes are high between supporters of austerity and cohesion while poverty increases as a result of the crisis, 116 million EU citizens at risk of poverty in 2010, two million more than last year.
The community paper monies depth discussion begin from this month. The champions of moderation in spending, led by Germany, seconded by at least UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Holland, which should not be considered to provide EU funds to food banks, according to European sources. Last February, the Commission decided to continue the program for this year and next while "noted the opinion of several Member States not to continue the program beyond 2013," said spokesman Commissioner for Social Affairs and Inclusion.
Confronting defenders to feed its citizens is a task of states, not the EU, there are the supporters of cohesion. They have a head start: the Commission supports continued funding for food banks for the period 2014-2020, while lowering the total amount of 2,500 million euros. "It is a matter of European solidarity, more important than ever in times of economic crisis," said the Commission. Another change is that the program spends the chapter of the Common Agricultural Policy, which was born in the lee of agricultural surpluses, 'to Social Spending and Cohesion.
The discussion comes when, by the crisis, "there are doubts whether the emergency food aid and other social assistance for those most in need could remain completely eliminated if the food aid program of the EU." The spokesman said the Social Affairs Commissioner.
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The favorable position of the Commission is a true relief for Spain, despite the funding cuts being handled. "The proposal is 2,500 million euros compared to 3,500 the previous period," said Fernando Miranda. He is the president of the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund, the Ministry of Agriculture agency responsible for implementing the Plan to Assist the neediest people in the EU, the program of food banks in Spain that has its second largest beneficiary: 80, 4 million this year.
"The downgrade would mean a drop in annual funding from 500 to about 350 million euros for all countries," lamented the president of the Spanish Federation of Food Banks, Jose Antonio Busto. Add to European funding provides about 40% of the food, and the rest comes from donations supermarket-free, for example. This reduction would result, predictably, less funding for Spain. Would drop to about "50 or 60 million a year, to pre-crisis levels," estimates Miranda. At least 34% off. "We could only reach those who need it most in those who need it," this official adventure.
"The drop in funding would be a problem, because demand continues to increase in Spain" warns Bust. Now two million people feed-through banks in 2007 were 850,000, through the delivery of products, which is responsible for Red Cross, or the soup kitchens. And the crisis is not good. To users of old,
people living below the poverty line, 21.8% in 2011 versus 19.5% in 2009 - have added new poor: middle class and low hit by rising unemployment and often receives food aid to devote the bulk of their meager incomes to the letter or rental of housing. Help sometimes a bank to meet other nutritional financial.
The menu for 19 million Europeans
CHARO NOGUEIRA
EU funding for food banks began in 1987, "when there were mountains of butter, beef ... when there was everything and more than enough, "says the president of the Agricultural Guarantee Fund, Fernando Miranda. The sale of those surpluses Brussels purchased pursuant to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was used to finance the distribution of food to the poor.
When, years later, most of the CAP orientation towards the market ended with agricultural surpluses, the EU began funding to banks from the budget, to which Germany and Sweden opposed until the Court of Justice of the Union Europe in 2009. The Luxembourg court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, who argued that the regulation was violated by not having food and intervention. "The ruling left without legal aid, but then changed the rules," says Miranda.
The lee of the surplus has been the EU who have chosen products that are distributed to families and soup kitchens. A list that, until this year, has been limited to cereals, milk and its derivatives. This year, for the first time, Spanish banks-present in almost every capital-have been able to include others such as legumes, vegetables and canned fish, olive oil or baby food for children. In total, 67,400 tons of 16 products 8000 goes to charities.
A more varied diet across the table from poverty to which sat last year 19 million Europeans from 19 other countries in addition to Spain (France, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania , Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland).
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