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"Mr President, in the summer of this year, the Council approved the European Union Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, recommending that the Member States develop their strategies by the end of 2011. The adoption of this document is undoubtedly an important step toward ending discrimination against the Roma in Europe, which has gone on for many years. Nevertheless, this document lacks concrete objectives and measures which would help to counteract people’s aversion to the Roma. In certain Member States, this aversion is reaching worrying proportions, in the form of persecution of representatives of this ethnic group. I would therefore call for the Agency for Fundamental Rights to be asked to prepare a new, up-to-date report on the situation of the Roma in the European Union, together with conclusions and proposals. There is quite an odd situation in our Parliament: every Thursday we debate human rights violations around the world. However, there is no standing forum where breaches of such rights in the Member States of the European Union would be put up for debate. An analysis of the functioning of the Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna should be carried out in this respect. The Agency should submit an analysis of violations of minority rights in the Member States as soon as possible. This concerns not only the situation of the Roma, but also for example that of the Poles in Lithuania, or the Hungarians."@en1
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