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Even though 82% of the Romanian believe that their country is the most tolerating of Roma, compared to the other EU member states, 57% of the Romanians have stated they had "bad or very bad" opinion of Roma. Photo by EPA/BGNES
Many Romanian citizens have condemned France's expulsion of Bulgarian and Romanian Roma to their homelands and have expressed concerns about the safety of their families, a poll showed.
The survey was conducted in September by the Institute for Assessment and Strategies, as reported by ITAR-TASS.
According to the results, 57% of the respondents have a "bad or very bad opinion of Roma", 40% have even confessed that the mentioning of the word Roma causes them "negative associations related to theft, fraud and begging".
Only 10% of the respondents have defined Roma as "normal people".
The poll also shows that 37% of the Romanians do not want Roma for neighbors, 32% do not want to live in the same city with them and 23% would not accept them as colleagues at work.
At the same time 82% of the respondents have claimed that Romania is the most tolerating of Roma country in comparison with other EU member states
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