The European Commission has warned that proposals to setting-up boarding schools for Roma children in Slovakia - floated by the country's top politician - should not lead to further segregation of an already marginalised ethnic group.
Earlier this week (8 March), Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his intention to create a programme that would "gradually put as many Roma children as possible into boarding schools and gradually separate them from the life they live in the settle...
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