Question 13648 — European Union

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Mr. Jean-Paul Dufrègne alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the need to maintain and increase the FEAD, European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived. The FEAD was created in 2014, for a period running until 2020, after four years of bitter discussions within the European Union in order to maintain food aid which was threatened with disappearance. This fund is based on a solidarity mechanism which makes it possible to provide food and material aid to associations that have been targeted: the Red Cross, Restos du coeur, food banks and Secours populaire. Today, this fund does not meet the needs to deal with the seriousness of the social situation. Worse, the discussions around the 2021-2027 budgetary framework of the European Union and the first orientations concerning future social programs from 2021, raise fears of a reduction in the FEAD budget by almost half. Ultimately, these guidelines raise fears of a new risk of disappearance of this food aid at the European level. The situation is particularly serious when we know that the FEAD makes it possible each year in France to help nearly 5 million people who suffer from food insecurity and who depend on associations for food. At a time when in the Union European Union, a quarter of the population is affected by poverty, he would like to know the Government's position on the future of the FEAD and what orientations it intends to defend at European level to sustain and upgrade the FEAD from 2020.

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