Roma And The EU

Roma and the EURoma and the EU

Presentation by Presentation by Ksenia IvanovaKsenia Ivanova

The Roma Subject

• The European Union aims at promoting their full inclusion into society and their participation in the economy, in the labour market, in cultural life and in decision making.

• For more than one thousand years, the Roma have been an integral part of European civilisation. Today, with an estimated population of 10-12 million people, Roma are the biggest ethnic minority in Europe, present in all 27 EU Member States. Most Roma are EU citizens.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=518&langId=en

Who are they?The term "Roma" refers to a variety of groups of people who describe themselves as Roma, Roma, Gypsies, Travellers, Gypsies, Travellers, Manouches, Ashkali, Sinti,Manouches, Ashkali, Sinti, as well as other titlesas well as other titles.

• However, the situation is characterised by persistent discrimination and social exclusion. Roma are at risk of poverty, unemployment, stereotypes and prejudice. http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?

catId=518&langId=en&videosId=2444&vl=en

• The European institutions and Member States have a joint responsibility to improve the social inclusion of Roma by using all the instruments and policies for which they have the respective competence.

EU and Roma• a strong legal framework to combat

Roma discrimination, based among others, on article 13 of the Treaty of the European Community, the Directive 2000/43/EC on racial equality and the Directive 2000/78/EC prohibiting discrimination in employment and vocational training. Member States have the duty to translate these Directives into their own national legislations. 

• stimulating the use of EU Structural Funds by EU Member States in order to support Roma inclusion. 

• EURoma network composed of representatives from currently 12 Member States, to promote the use of Structural Funds to enhance the effectiveness of policies targeting the Roma and to promote their social inclusion.

Objectives

SSharingharing of strategies, initiatives and approaches, learning based on experience and best practices, and the dissemination and standardisation of such knowledge. Transmission and exchangeTransmission and exchange of information, through internal and external communication channelsMutual learningMutual learning: sharing of approaches and strategies, identification and transfer of experiences, creation of a forum for the organisation and management of projects, development of common and transversal products.

How How it it

workworkss

The Management Committee (MC)

The Working Groups

The Technical Secretaria

t

decision-making body comprised of all Network members, the EC and the TS. The MC meets 2/Y and is hosted by a member state on a rotating basis.

acts as Administrative and Communications Coordinator

The Working GroupsThe Working Groups

to share specificto share specific information on concrete issues information on concrete issuesto generate ato generate a pool of knowledge and pool of knowledge and instrumentsinstruments (assessment indicators, (assessment indicators, management tools, etc.) management tools, etc.) to standardise to standardise experiences and to transfer best practicesexperiences and to transfer best practices; ; to propose and organise actionsto propose and organise actions (seminars, (seminars, conferences, study visits, awareness-raising conferences, study visits, awareness-raising actions, etc.) fostering specialisation and the actions, etc.) fostering specialisation and the training of key agents;training of key agents;to provideto provide non-Network member organisations non-Network member organisations an opportunity to participatean opportunity to participate in information in information sharing and other actions.sharing and other actions.

Education

Social Inclusion

Employment

• Second European Roma Summit

• 8th April 2010 Cordoba, Spain

The Sources

• All the information, videos and pictures source back to:

• http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=518&langId=en ( The EU site, The EU and Roma)

• http://www.euromanet.eu/ (The official EURoma site)

• http://www.fotosearch.com/ (Foto Search Site)