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MEPs Support Overwhelmingly EU Roma Inclusion Strategy
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MEP Livia Jaroka's report on the EU Roma Inclusion Strategy has been met with approval. File photo
The Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the EP has adopted with overwhelming support a report on the future EU Strategy on Roma Inclusion by Hungarian MEP Livia Jaroka.
"The social inclusion of the Roma is one of the most important strategic challenges that Europe faces and at the same time it provides one of the most promising opportunities for the continent. With the adoption of the Report in the LIBE Committee, we have taken a step closer to launching this Strategy which will enable the hopeless masses living in poverty today to become equal citizens of tomorrow," said L?via J?r?ka MEP, Rapporteur of the EU Strategy on Roma Inclusion.
Jaroka is the only Member of the European Parliament of Roma origin. The adoption of a European Roma Strategy is one of the most important priorities of the Hungarian Presidency, which aims to launch the program during its term, Jaroka's office said in a statement.
The objectives of her report were supported by all the six political groups of the EP. Nearly 400 amendments were tabled and almost 40 compromise agreements were reached before voting, and four Opinions were considered from the committees on Employment and Social Affairs, Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Culture and Education, and Regional Development.
The Report calls on the Commission and the Council to develop a Community strategy on a firm legal basis for the social inclusion of the Roma, coordinated and monitored by the Community Institutions, which allows for an annual evaluation of results regarding the priorities and objectives detailed in the Report.
The document also urges drawing an EU-wide crisis map which measures and locates those micro-regions where poverty and social exclusion mostly affecting Roma communities is concentrated. Among others, the Report also proposes the adoption of common, comparable and reliable indicators and the adoption of an 'enlargement dimension', so that candidate countries and potential candidates could be associated in the Strategy.
Throughout 2010, the "Roma Issue" finally received EU and world attention as France deported thousands of Bulgarian and Romanian Roma back to their home states considering them a safety hazard.
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