The plan’s success (as well as the European Commission’s creditability with regard to its ability to combat poverty) will need to be measured by the specific measures and their results.<br /><br />The AK would like to point out that a successful fight against poverty and exclusion requires many policy areas to be involved (including the macro policy, where the main way is paved for poverty to develop). The fair distribution of acquired wealth needs to be made into a decisive political objective much more than was the case up to now at EU level as the tendency that has been observed for several years towards an ever greater gulf between rich and poor will not be reversed by individual social policy measures to combat poverty alone.