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member states so far have dragged their feet in allocating proper resources - with only €100 million earmarked for Roma projects out of the €26.5 billion available (Photo: Council of Europe)

EU's Roma blueprint 'disappointing'

by Valentina Pop, Brussels,

A freshly launched EU policy framework for national Roma strategies is "disappointing", as it leaves it up to member states to deal with the discrimination of this minority - something governments like the one in Hungary are not really willing to follow up on, grassroots activists say.

"We are really disappointed that the framework does not set out any concerted approach to tackle the discrimination of Roma. It only talks about the response of member states to have projects for social i...

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member states so far have dragged their feet in allocating proper resources - with only €100 million earmarked for Roma projects out of the €26.5 billion available (Photo: Council of Europe)

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