European Parliament
Thomas Ulmer  (PPE ),
in writing.
(DE)
The European Parliament has rescued the food aid programme for the most deprived people and I was pleased to be able to vote in favour of this. Almost 20 million citizens rely at least in part on the EU food aid programme. The programme now has funding of EUR 500 million until the end of 2013, which will enable it to take action. We were able to prevent the funding being reduced to a quarter of its current level, as the Council had proposed.

