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Leading Roma organizations stated that the European Commission failеdto include Roma voices and input in the development of its new “EU framework for national Roma integration strategies up to 2020.” The groups complain that new strategy for Roma integration, which was released this week by the executive arm of the European Union was not consulted with Roma NGOs. Although it is an important step forward it misses key elements that sharply decrease its possible effectiveness. Certain steps should be undertaken in the following weeks to ensure the efficient implementation...

  This year also the Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance “Amalipe” organizes the International Day of the Roma. On 8th April /Friday/ in the building of Fifth Frame of the University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” at 11:00 o’clock, representatives of the Center “Amalipe”, together with Roma pupils and students, make an informational campaign on the occasion of the liberation of the Roma from the concentration camp Auschwitz in the end of the Second World War. The campaign presents information through...

  The competition “Educational integration of the children and the students from the ethnic minorities” under an Operational Program “Human Resources Development” is about to be vitiated. After the results were announced one year late, they showed that 90 % of the submitted projects were rejected. Thus, contracts for 7.5 millions leva will be signed instead of 12 millions leva, as it was envisaged at the competition announcement. Among the approved projects there is not an NGO, working for an educational integration of the Roma community. This...

  On 1st and 2nd April 2011 in Complex “Bryasta” was held a working meeting of the Steering Committee of the project “Promoting participatoryfieldwork at grass-root level in marginalized and traditional Roma Communities”, funded by the European Commission under the Program Daphne III. The meeting was attended by representatives from various institutions and NGOs in the country and abroad. Project partners are: Center Amalipe, “Liga...

European Commission calls on Member States to set national strategies for Roma integration Europe's 10-12 million Roma continue to face discrimination, exclusion and the denial of their rights, while governments lose out on increased revenue and productivity because potential talent could go wasted. Better economic and social integration is an imperative – but to be effective, concerted action is needed at all levels to address the multiple causes of exclusion. The European Commission is therefore today putting forward a European Framework for National Roma Integration...