EU faces big Roma question after 2007 enlargement

cnicules — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:52:37 -0700

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Romania and Bulgaria’s membership of the EU will bring almost three million more Roma citizens into the bloc, but the ethnic population is still facing strong discrimination in the two Balkan countries.

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“The governmental approach to non-registered settlements of mainly Roma community has led to tensions. Forced evictions further increased those tensions,” the commission stated in its EU progress report on Bulgaria this week.

For Romania, Brussels noted that the country’s authorities “do not yet demonstrate at all levels that a zero-tolerance policy on racism against Roma is applied.”

“There are still cases of institutional violence against and assaulting of Roma, such as police raids and evictions in Roma communities, without providing them with alternative accommodation,” said the report.

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