Liz Lynne presses Commission over EU homelessness strategy
Just because there are no votes in the issue is no reason to ignore the plight of Europe's homeless, Liberal Democrat Euro MP Liz Lynne told the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday. Wolverhampton's MEP spoke out in a debate held last night to follow up a written declaration adopted by Parliament last December in favour of an EU-wide plan to support member states in developing effective national homelessness strategies. Liz Lynne was one of a number of MEPs to press the Commission to spell out their plans to follow up the declaration. She urged them to promote best practice, highlighting pioneering projects supported by the EU's Daphne programme such as a scheme dealing with the high number of women rough sleepers in Wolverhampton. In her speech Liz Lynne said "Homelessness has never been a politically popular subject, maybe because there are not many votes in it. That is one reason why it is important to involve people from all parties and none in national, regional and local policymaking, service
