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"Mr President, I am pleased that, as my colleagues have already stated, the European Parliament is addressing the situation of the Roma in the European Union for the second time. The report that had been prepared more than a year ago, as well as the decision, addressed the situation, employment, education and health issues of women. However, it is imperative to address this issue as a separate topic – like this report has done – in the form of a report or a separate decision, or even by creating new directives.
It is imperative that we attempt to deal efficiently and very successfully with the issues mentioned by my colleagues who have spoken before me. As we have heard before, the EUR 750 million mentioned earlier, spent by the European Union on the situation of the Roma or on attempting to resolve their problem, did not manage to resolve their situation, but has, in fact, exacerbated it. Unemployment has risen in every state, and in particular, the number of discrimination cases has increased both in European Union Member States and candidate states.
I am grateful to the author of the report, who has succeeded in presenting this matter in a comprehensive manner, and all members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group, including myself, are fully supporting it.
However, Member State governments are often trying to address the problem of Roma women with a paternalistic approach. They fail to ask for the opinion of the Roma women, or indeed of any women on the fight against the discrimination affecting women, or about the instruments and manner of starting and conducting the fight against discrimination. It would be good if we could address these issues, and it would be good if we did not include Roma traditions in the fight against discrimination, because it would be very dangerous both for EU Member States and other legislators to intervene in such cases and to interfere with private family matters."@en1
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