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"Mr President, today’s debate is about the extent to which and how the Roma policy is being implemented in Member States. The European Commission sought with its strategy national concepts and plans for resolving these issues by the end of this calendar year.
Unfortunately, policy in this area is only on paper at the moment, and Commissioner Reding’s absence today is further proof that the Commission is distancing itself from this policy. The national strategies adopted fail to reflect the specific nature of the Roma’s problems in Member States. They only represent the formal transfer of the framework with four key areas – education, health care, employment and housing policy.
In actual fact, some governments in Europe are pursuing, instead of real integration, a policy of ever-growing isolation of the Roma population because they provide cheap votes during elections. There is no clear-cut stance taken against political groups which openly advocate xenophobia and discrimination.
The inaction of the institutions generates ethnic hatred and tension, which has unpredictable consequences, as happened recently in Bulgaria. At the time, the European media were really outraged, but the Commission remained silent.
My question today is: will there be sufficient exact criteria and controls from the European Commission and Council, which can be used to evaluate Member States in spring 2012 in terms of their Roma strategy?"@en1
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