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European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

2020/2011(INI)

4.6.2020

AMENDMENTS1 - 164Draft opinionTomáš Zdechovský(PE650.564v01-00)

Report on the implementation of National Roma Integration Strategies: Combating negative attitudes towards people with Romani background in Europe(2020/2011(INI))

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Amendment 1Eugenia Rodríguez Palop

Draft opinionRecital -A (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

-A. whereas pursuant to Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union shall take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health;

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Draft opinionRecital -A a (new)


-A a. whereas the adoption of the European Pillar of Social Rights is essential to reinforce social rights of people belonging to marginalised groups, such as people with Romani background;

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Draft opinionRecital -A b (new)


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-A b. whereas we strongly welcome the commitment of the Commission to develop a reinforced post-2020 European Strategic Framework for Roma equality, social and economic justice and combating antigypsyism;

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Draft opinionRecital -A c (new)


-A c. whereas an unacceptably high proportion of Roma live at risk of poverty (on average, 80 % in 2016)1a;_________________1a EU FRA 2016 Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey: Roma

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Draft opinionRecital A


A. whereas 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1 ; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2 ; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113 ;

A. whereas only 43 % of Roma (56% of men and 29% of women) are in some form of paid work1; whereas Roma face higher rates of work intensity, job insecurity and unemployment rates, lack employment networks and suffer discrimination in the field of work; whereas 63 % of young Roma aged 16-24 are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2 and in the case of young

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Roma women it amounts to 72% 1b; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113;

_________________ _________________1 European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 3.

1 European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 3.; EU FRA 2019 Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey – Roma women in nine EU Member States.1b EU FRA 2019 Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey – Roma women in nine EU Member States.

2 Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies – 2019, COM(2019)0406, p. 4.


3 Roma inclusion measures reported under the EU framework for NRIS, SWD(2019) 320 final, PART 1/2, p. 18.


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Amendment 6Anne Sander




A. whereas 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113; whereas school dropout of Roma is particularly important; whereas a significant proportion of Roma women live in a very precarious situation; whereas difficulties for Roma have been increased by the covid-19 crisis;

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1 European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 3.





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Amendment 7Anna Júlia Donáth, Dragoș Pîslaru, Abir Al-Sahlani, Radka Maxová, Jordi Cañas




A. whereas Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority of which approximately 6 million lives in the EU; whereas about 80 % of Roma live below their country’s at-risk-of-poverty threshold; 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113;







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Amendment 8Miriam Lexmann, Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Pollák, Loránt Vincze, Ivan Štefanec




A. whereas 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1 ; whereas 50% of Roma between the age of 6 and 24 do not attend school and 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2 ; whereas the increasing share of Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113;







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Amendment 9Stelios Kympouropoulos



A. whereas 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1 ; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2 ; whereas the increasing share of

A. whereas 43 % of Roma are in some form of paid employment1 ; whereas 63 % of young Roma (aged 16-24) are not in education, employment or training (NEET)2; whereas the increasing share of

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Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113 ;

Roma NEETs was an area where the situation had deteriorated in 2016 compared to 20113; whereas a significant number of Roma girls are guided or forced to marry early;







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Amendment 10Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson

Draft opinionRecital A a (new)


A a. whereas the existing EU Framework (EUFW) for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020 principally treats Roma in the EU as a homogenous group, shows little sensitivity to local contexts and has a limited capacity for addressing intra-Roma ethnic and socioeconomic diversity and multiple identity and multiple discrimination issues1a;_________________1a Expert reports building on forward-looking aspects of the evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, Considering the Diversity of the Roma population in a post-2020 EU-initiative for Roma equality

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and inclusion, January 2020.

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Amendment 11Miriam Lexmann, Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Pollák, Loránt Vincze, Michal Wiezik

Draft opinionRecital A a (new)


A a. whereas Roma are struggling to find stable employment as they do not fit job requirements because of their often limited chances of developing their skills and competences;

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Draft opinionRecital A b (new)


A b. whereas gender equality and the situation of Roma children and youth are two key areas of intervention for integration and inclusion of Roma that are insufficiently addressed both at the European level and at the level of Member States2a;_________________2a Expert reports building on forward-looking aspects of the evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, Considering the Diversity of the Roma population in a post-2020 EU-initiative for Roma equality and inclusion, January 2020, p. 16.

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Draft opinionRecital A c (new)


A c. whereas persisting socioeconomic and health inequalities and multilayered forms of discrimination, including antigypsysm and ageism, put Roma elderly in a particularly vulnerable position;

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Draft opinionRecital A d (new)


A d. whereas combatting structural discrimination of Roma, including the priority areas of education, employment, access to healthcare and housing, and making significant improvement in their socioeconomic status rests on the increase of social and cultural capital in the environments with Roma communities and on long-term, multi-stakeholder approach to Roma integration with active participation of Roma in all stages;

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Draft opinionRecital A e (new)


A e. whereas equality data collection refers to all types of disaggregated data used to assess the comparative situation of specific groups at risk of discrimination, to design public policies that contribute to promoting equality and to assess their implementation, based on evidence and not mere assumptions; whereas the collection of such data (i.e. data revealing ethnic origin or religion) requires exclusive consent of the subjects of data collection and can often be controversial; whereas what is clearly forbidden is racial or ethnic profiling, where people are, without their consent, identified on the basis of third-party perceptions or generalisations based on race, ethnicity, religion or national origin;

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Draft opinionRecital A f (new)


A f. whereas the available data and surveys show much higher rates of unemployment and significantly lower levels of income for the Roma than for the majority population or other disadvantaged ethnic minority groups; whereas the Roma face similar barriers as

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other ethnic minority groups but more intensively, due to a vicious circle of low education, low qualifications and labour market exclusion;

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Draft opinionRecital A g (new)


A g. whereas individuals belonging to minority groups continue to be discriminated against when they are applying for jobs and even once they are in a job, continue to face unequal treatment; whereas lower wages, lack of career prospects, precarious and difficult working conditions, sticky floor and glass ceiling, harassment, and abusive dismissal, are just some of the manifestations; whereas ethnic minorities are more likely to have less access to employment rights and protection; whereas ethnic origin also seems to matter as regards harassment in the workplace, and to be a major obstacle for career advancement;

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Draft opinionRecital A h (new)

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A h. whereas EU-MIDIS II3a finds that only one in four Roma aged 16 years or older reports “employed” or “self-employed” as their main activity at the time of the survey and that Roma women report much lower employment rates than Roma men – 16 % compared with 34 %; whereas, overall, the survey shows paid work rates for Roma aged 20-64 years to be 43 %, which is well below the EU average of 70 % in 2015; whereas the situation of young people is substantially worse: on average, 63 % of Roma aged 16-24 were not employed, in education or training at the time of the survey, compared with the12 % EU average on the NEET rate for the same age group; whereas, for this age group, the results also show a considerable gender gap, with 72 % of young Roma women not employed, in education or training, compared with 55 % of young Roma men and in stark contrast with the rest of the population;_________________3a European Commission, EU-MIDIS II: Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey, October 2018.

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Amendment 19Dragoș Pîslaru, Anna Júlia Donáth, Samira Rafaela, Jordi Cañas

Draft opinionRecital B


B. whereas one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma live in overcrowded housing4 ;

B. whereas one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma live in overcrowded housing4 ; whereas the majority of Roma communities, in particular in Central and

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Eastern Europe, live in segregated settlements, facing spatial segregation and many of these communities are disproportionally exposed to environmental degradation and pollution stemming from waste dumps and landfills, contaminated sites, or dirty industries4a;


4 European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 6.4a European Environmental Bureau report, 2020, Pushed to the wastelands. Environmental racism against Roma communities in Central and Eastern Europe, p 6

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Amendment 20Anna Júlia Donáth, Dragoș Pîslaru, Abir Al-Sahlani, Samira Rafaela, Jordi Cañas




B. whereas Roma communities are most vulnerable, they are often live in slum settlements excluded from society and in substandard conditions whereas one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma live in overcrowded housing4;



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Amendment 21Miriam Lexmann, Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Pollák, Michal Wiezik, Loránt Vincze

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B. whereas Roma are born into an extreme generational poverty, one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma live in overcrowded housing4;



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Amendment 22Ádám Kósa, Andrea Bocskor




B. whereas one third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower, and 78 % of Roma lived in overcrowded housing in 20164;



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Draft opinionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas EU-MIDIS II4a shows that 80 % of Roma continue to live below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold of their country; that one in 10 people live in housing without electricity; and that every fourth Roma (27 %) and every third Roma child (30 %) live in a household that faced hunger at least once in the previous month;_________________4a European Commission, EU-MIDIS II: Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey, October 2018.

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Amendment 24Romeo Franz

Draft opinionRecital B a (new)


B a. highlights that Roma settlements are often located in areas of high environmental impact;

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Draft opinionRecital C


C. whereas 43 % of Roma are C. whereas spatial segregation

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discriminated against when trying to buy or rent housing and are not sufficiently aware of their rights in terms of equality5 ;

remains one of the key challenges in the area of housing; whereas significant progress made in the field of social housing should be maintained by public support and necessary legislation5a; whereas 43 % of Roma are discriminated against when trying to buy or rent housing and are not sufficiently aware of their rights in terms of equality5;


5 European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 6.5a European Commission, 2019 Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies, pp. 8-9.

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Amendment 26Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová

Draft opinionRecital C


C. whereas 43 % of Roma are discriminated against when trying to buy or rent housing and are not sufficiently aware of their rights in terms of equality5 ;

C. whereas 43 % of Roma are discriminated against when trying to buy or rent housing and are not sufficiently aware of their rights in terms of equality5; whereas the available data and outcome indicators from representative surveys from nine EU Member States suggest that the situation in housing remained largely the same between 2011 and 2016, with only some improvements in access to water and basic amenities in some countries;



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Draft opinionRecital C a (new)


C a. whereas Roma have been one of the most vulnerable groups in the Covid-19 pandemic; whereas the economic and social consequences of the health crisis threaten to hit the Roma population the hardest and deepen the existing inequalities in all priority areas of Roma integration; whereas antigypsysm is present also in the form of scapegoating the Roma and ethnicisation of the Coronavirus crisis6a;_________________6a European Commission, Overview of the impact of coronavirus measures on the marginalised Roma communities in the EU, May 2020, p. 1.

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Amendment 28Anna Júlia Donáth, Dragoș Pîslaru, Abir Al-Sahlani, Samira Rafaela, Radka Maxová, Jordi Cañas



C a. whereas the living conditions of Roma, their level of schooling and their health status determine their social and labour-market situation and often serve as pretexts for their exclusion and for racism, and whereas all this hinders their chances to break the vicious circle of

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poverty and prevent the exercise of the most fundamental human and civil rights;

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C a. Stresses that the lack of personal documents such as birth certificates and identity documents often prevent Roma to buy or rent housing and to access essential state aid services; whereas missing property documents are a barrier to accessing public services such as heating or water supply;

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C a. whereas equality between women and men must be ensured and fostered in all areas, including in the participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment, wages, qualification training, career change and progression;

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Amendment 31Sara Skyttedal

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C a. whereas people of various ethnicities, including people with romani background, have resorted to begging; whereas begging curbs integration, impairs social security and hinder youths to complete studies;

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Amendment 32Jordi Cañas



C a. whereas Roman women and girls are faced with a specific situation of vulnerability due to the intersectional discrimination, leading to high levels of school failure and unemployment rates;

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Draft opinionRecital C b (new)


C b. whereas poor transport infrastructure, a dearth of public administrative bodies and services, in particular of high-quality educational institutions and health provision aggravate regional disparities and ghettoisation;

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Draft opinionRecital C b (new)


C b. whereas Roma, and women in particular, experience a disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the access and supply of aid, goods and services;

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Amendment 35Anna Júlia Donáth, Dragoș Pîslaru, Abir Al-Sahlani, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinionRecital C c (new)


C c. whereas Roma are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 and are at extreme risk of suffering negative consequences of the COVID-19 crisis regarding access to healthcare, education, social benefits, including unemployment benefits, or any other measures which are aiming at mitigating the impact of coronavirus;

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Amendment 36Anna Júlia Donáth, Dragoș Pîslaru, Samira Rafaela, Jordi Cañas

Draft opinionParagraph 1

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite economic prosperity in the EU and despite the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies and the Cohesion Funds measures introduced in the last decade, the overall situation of the Roma in the EU has stagnated; progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been very limited and in some fields even regressed often due to the lack of political will; therefore calls on the Commission to lead by example and introduce a “Roma mainstreaming policy” in order to integrate the Roma perspective at all stages and levels of policies, programmes and projects particularly the Recovery Plan, the new Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027, the European Green Deal, the new Common Agricultural Policy, the Just Transition Fund, the New Skills Agenda for Europe, the European Digital Strategy, the SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe; calls on the Commission to prevent discrimination in EU policies in general and to facilitate affirmative action; calls on the Member States also to to follow this path and create policies which help the active inclusion of Roma into our societies;

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that

1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that

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face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

face the highest rates of poverty, discrimination and social exclusion and whose fundamental rights, particularly economic and social rights, are not being respected, hindering their enjoyment; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade regarding the social inclusion of Roma, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local, regional and national authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS) and to strengten the role of the National Contact Points in the design, alignment and development of the NRIS;

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority and one of the minority groups in Europe that faces the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion, continuous discrimination and unequal access to various vital services, which not only accounts for high number of individual human rights violations but also undermines social cohesion, economic ands social potential of the EU; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma

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Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, measurable progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS); stresses that it is important to measure the progress and to create a robust monitoring system using relevant indicators;

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and

1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; stresses that the economic

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governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable Roma is catastrophic, as they often work in the informal sector and are left without any income or social assistance; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion, especially Roma women; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited harming the economic and social cohesion of the Union and the reduction of regional inequalities; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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Amendment 42Katrin Langensiepen, Romeo Franz



1. Highlights the fact that Roma are 1. Highlights the fact that Roma are

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one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion, and are victims of a specific form of structural racism, called anti-Gypsyism; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty, social exclusion and structural discrimination; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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Amendment 44Guido Reil, Mara Bizzotto



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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; notes that the labour markets are rapidly changing and that this has led to a deterioration of the position of the mostly unqualified Roma;

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1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local, regional and national authorities to implement effectively the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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Draft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)


1 a. Recalls European Parliament Resolution of 12 February 2019 on the

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need for a strengthened post-2020 Strategic EU Framework for National Roma Inclusion Strategies and stepping up the fight against anti-Gypsyism; urges the Commission and the Member States to propose and commit to an ambitious, comprehensive and binding EU Strategic Framework for Roma equality, social and economic justice and combating antigypsyism for the post-2020 with concrete common objectives at EU level and minimum standards which Member States can translate into national targets, and where country specificities are relevant insofar as they aim to achieve more than the minimum standards; and to ensure that multiple and intersectional discrimination, gender mainstreaming and a child-sensitive approach are properly addressed;

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1 a. Notes that while many Roma have been successfully integrated in the changing labour markets, a very large part of the Roma insists on remaining on the margins of society because of a desire to retain its identity and traditional values; notes that many Roma fail to fulfil basic administrative requirements and have no documentary proof of ownership for land and buildings and that, consequently, whole neighbourhoods do not officially exist; notes that many adults and children remain administrative invisible with very limited access to healthcare, education and social service;

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1 a. Calls on the Commission to set out binding objectives, measures and targets for the Member States, a clear timeline and clear and binding progress requirements, as well as success indicators and adequate funding for the implementation of the next EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategy; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS);

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1 a. Highlights the need to break the vicious circle of poverty of those Roma concerned by taking effective targeted actions from the earliest possible age, because targeted measures at all level of education can be effective tools in fighting poverty, stresses the need to enhance transitions to higher levels of education as well as by supporting these measures by social investment;

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Amendment 50Miriam Lexmann, Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Pollák, Loránt Vincze



1 a. Calls on the more attention paid to those Member States that have a sizable Roma population and history of rather ineffective measures. The Commission should monitor and better support these Member States and their policies and measures;

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1 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to safeguard inclusive equality for Roma people - with particular attention to women and girls, and persons with disabilities being victims of intersectional discrimination - in all areas of life;

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Amendment 52Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson



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1 a. Calls on the Member States to adopt Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, COM/2008/0426final, 2 July 2008;

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Draft opinionParagraph 1 b (new)


1 b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to include poverty, with a particular focus on child poverty, social exclusion and antigypsyism and non-discrimination as cross-sectional dimensions through the four key areas of the EU Roma Strategy and NRIS, ensuring that equality, sustainable employment opportunities, inclusive education, quality housing, and adequate healthcare contribute to the overall improvement of Roma wellbeing, and that multiple and intersectional discrimination, gender mainstreaming and a child-sensitive approach are properly addressed both in EU Strategic Framework and in the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS); Calls on local and regional authorities and governments to prioritise the adoption, revision and implementation of the NRIS in line with the post-2020 Strategic EU Framework, guaranteeing a strong connection of those strategies with mainstream policies;

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Amendment 54

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Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson



1 b. Calls on European Commission to prepare a post-2020 EUFW that will reflect the existing diversity and multiple identities among Roma, integrate the gender equality principle and emphasis on Roma children and youth as key factors of positive change, and uphold an intersectional and multi-stakeholder approach to national integration strategies, where Roma are actively engaged from the preparatory to implementation stages of integration measures;

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1 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure the equal participation of Roma civil society organisations, experts and community members, particularly those active at local and regional level in the policy debate and in decision-making;

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Draft opinionParagraph 1 c (new)


1 c. Acknowledges that in order to guarantee social and economic rights of Roma people, a more comprehensive approach should be considered, strengthening the institutional recognition of the Roma minority as a social actor and the effective and organised participation of the representative organisations of Roma civil society, enabling their meaningful participation in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the economic and social policies; and calls on the Commission to consider Roma participation as a binding common quality standard for the future Strategic EU Framework and the national strategies and that financial and structural mechanisms ensure equal and quality participation;

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1 c. Highlights that employment is the main path to social inclusion and ethnic minorities must therefore have the possibility to fully participate in the labour market and the “equal status and equal pay for equal work” principle shall apply to all workers;

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Amendment 58Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Pierfrancesco Majorino

Draft opinionParagraph 1 d (new)


1 d. Calls on the Commission to present a Communication on guidelines and standards for discrimination-free recruitment policies for Member States and employers, including recommendations for the adoption of equality plans at company level and in sectoral collective agreements and the implementation of diversity taskforces in the workplace, including tackling stereotypes, prejudice and negative attitudes, preventing discrimination in recruitment, promotion, pay and access to training; highlights that these equality action plans should be also used to promote ethnic and cultural diversity at the workplace, to develop internal regulations against racism, related discrimination and harassment in the workplace, to monitor and review recruitment, progression and retention of workforce by equality strand in order to identify direct or indirect discriminatory practices and to adopt corrective measures to reduce inequality in each of these areas and, to this effect, collect equality data in respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;

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1 e. Calls on the Commission to adopt a common EU framework for the collection and analysis of reliable and comparable disaggregated equality data for the purpose of combating discrimination, including in employment; adds that this should comprise labour market indicators to measure equality, including the employment position of migrants and minority groups, with full respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;

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2. Highlights that the most critical points to address in the area of Roma employment are effective transition from education to the open labour market, tackling discrimination by employers, matching labour demand with labour supply, and the growing rates of Roma youth not in education;

2. Highlights that the most critical points to address in the area of Roma employment are effective transition from education to the open labour market, hampered by the high rate of scholar failure which affect in particular Roma children and youth, tackling discrimination by employers, matching labour demand with labour supply, and the growing rates of Roma youth not in education;

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Amendment 61Miriam Lexmann, Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Pollák, Michal Wiezik, Loránt Vincze, Ivan Štefanec


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2. Highlights that the most critical points to address in the area of Roma employment are effective transition from education to the open labour market, tackling negative stereotypes that are often the biggest obstacles to find employment, tackling discrimination by employers, matching labour demand with labour supply, and the growing rates of Roma youth not in education;

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Amendment 62Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Marianne Vind, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson




2. Highlights that the most critical points to address in the area of Roma employment are effective transition from education to the open labour market, tackling discrimination by employers and the growing rates of Roma youth not in education, with a focus on Roma women and girls and measures required for removing the barrier of traditional gender roles;

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2. Highlights that the most critical points to address in the area of Roma employment are effective transition from education to the open labour market, tackling discrimination by employers, matching labour demand with labour supply, addressing substandard working conditions and exploitation, and the growing rates of Roma youth not in education;

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2. Highlights that the most critical points to address in the area of Roma employment are effective transition from education to the open labour market, tackling diverse forms of undeclared employment, discrimination by employers, matching labour demand with labour supply, and the growing rates of Roma youth not in education;

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2 a. Calls on the Commission to meet its commitment to adopt an action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights and to incorporate Roma inclusion as an indicator in the social scoreboard of

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the European Pillar of Social Rights; urges the Commission and the Member States to target Roma to reflect their specific situation, ensuring quality employment, access to decent jobs, fair wages and working conditions and guaranteeing that social protection systems and social services are adequate, accessible and used by potential beneficiaries, including universal health coverage without discrimination, minimum income schemes and pension rights;

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2 a. Notes that education has traditionally been undervalued within the Roma communities and that many Roma hold a deep-rooted scepticism towards formal education; points out that because of the lack of socialisation, many Roma children have difficulties at school; highlights that because of patriarchal traditions, Roma girls are forced to leave the school early; underlines that in general Romani women and girls are significantly discriminated within their own community and are undervalued;

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2 a. Stresses the importance of promoting access to education, higher education, apprenticeship and vocational training for Roma in order to promote their economic integration and social inclusion. Early school leaving and dropping out of school hamper the training of young Roma as well as their access to the labor market. Stresses the importance for Roma to benefit fully from quality education so that they acquire basic skills, including digital skills;

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2 a. Reminds that Member States have taken several measures promoting the school attendance of Roma children, such as providing free meal and free textbooks in schools as well as extending the obligation of attendance in kindergarten / pre-school education from an earlier age for all children. These good practices should be continued;

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2 a. Calls on the Commission and the

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Member States to ensure that the Youth Employment Initiative programme has an explicit focus on young Roma people, especially Roma women, accompanied by effective active outreach measures through Roma and pro-Roma NGOs;

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2 a. Calls on the Member States to encourage stronger engagement of businesses, particularly at local level, and consider supporting the development of social enterprises to create sustainable workplaces for Roma, with a focus on Roma women;

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2 b. Calls on the Member States to ensure that people of Romani background who exercise their mobility rights can access all necessary health care in the member state where they reside, and that neither poverty nor the residence status constitute a barrier to accessing needed health and social services;

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2 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that mainstream programmes, including those covered by the Structural Funds, actively reach out to the Roma, and their outreach is regularly monitored with the involvement of Roma and pro-Roma NGOs;

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2 c. Calls on Member States to invest in labour monitoring and complaint mechanisms that are resourced, accesible and effective for all workers, regardless of their nationality or residence statuts, to protect workers from employer retaliation and harmful consequences and to support civil society organizations to provide information about their rights and means to exercise them;

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3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU budget planning is firmly linked to the Roma inclusion process at EU level;

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3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU budget planning is firmly linked to the Roma inclusion process at EU level;

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU budget planning is firmly linked to the Roma inclusion process at EU level; highlights to that end the need for systematic collection of robust data disaggregated by gender and age to inform needs and context analysis, help in setting targets and impact indicators in order to ensure the best outcome in terms of matching needs with planning and budgeting, at both national and EU level;

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3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU budget planning is firmly linked to the Roma

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the Recovery Plan and the new Mulitannual Financial

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inclusion process at EU level; Framework for 2021-2027 is firmly linked to the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, to its binding targets and to their execution by National Roma Integration Strategies;

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3 a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that the next MFF facilitates synergies between those overarching EU policies that are relevant to Roma issues and the post-2020 Strategic EU Framework, and that poverty reduction, Roma inclusion and access to health are maintained as thematic priorities under the ESIF and linked to national poverty reduction strategies and action plans; urges the Commission and the Council to address the unequal situation that Roma face across the EU in the ESF+, and recalls the resolution of the European Parliament on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), which includes as an specific objective “(viiia) fighting discrimination against and promoting the socioeconomic integration of marginalised communities such as Roma”;

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3 a. Calls on the Commission to carefully evaluate the impact indicators of Roma integration for the 2014-2020 period and to identify the best practices as well as shortcomings; recalls that the monitoring of the Roma integration was to be improved on the basis of the ESF Investment Priority 9 (ii), the relevant specific objectives in the ESF and the ERDF operational programmes and the use of the ESF common output indicator for participants as well as programme specific indicators and targets;

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Amendment 79Andrea Bocskor, Ádám Kósa



3 a. Recommends the Commission to facilitate exchange of best practices between Member States and monitor the situation in order to provide regular assessment;

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3 b. Calls on the Commission and the

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Member States to include representatives of the Roma communities, including youth, in the consultation and decision making processes both at EU and national level;

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3 c. Recalls that the role of local and national governments, strong partnerships and commitment of local stakeholders, such as local municipalities and school inspectorates, is decisive for the sustainability of Roma integration;

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4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice;

4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice; reminds that the Commission opened infringement procedures on segregation of Roma children in relation to 3 Member States; is of the opinion that the last years have

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shown no improvement despite the Commission's efforts; therefore calls on the Commission to take further steps and refer these cases to the European Court of Justice;

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4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments; deeply regrets that misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice leading to a disproportionate number of Roma children attending 'special' schools, thereby separating them from the mainstream school system and often receiving inferior education;

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4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated

4. Underlines the need for a commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools;

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environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice;

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4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice; takes into consideration the fact that many children use Romani as their mother tongue, a language that must be provided as an educational option;

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environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice;

environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice; calls for reinforced effort to increase participation of Roma children in the whole education lifecycle, from pre-school to the tertiary level;

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Amendment 87Miriam Lexmann, Andrea Bocskor, Ádám Kósa, Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Pollák, Michal Wiezik, Loránt Vincze, Ivan Štefanec




4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools and to securing the same quality and inclusive mainstream learning as the non-Roma pupils, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice;

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4 a. Calls on the Commission to put greater emphasis on youth in the EU Roma Framework 2021-2027, in particular on the transition from

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education to employment, and ensure that member states make youth employment a priority in their NRIS; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the implementation of the Youth Guarantee Initiative for the period 2021-2027 will consider as beneficiaries young Roma, and to adopt an ambitious and inclusive European Child Guarantee that also takes into account their rights and needs; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reform the European Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative, giving particular attention to the most marginalised, including measures such as better targeting of training programmes specifically for marginalised group, specific training for Public Employment Services on how to reach out to and deal with marginalised groups, or strengthened partnerships with educational institutions and NGOs to reach out to Roma and other marginalised groups;

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4 a. Emphasizes that segregated school settings discourage social and economic inclusion; recalls to that end the relevant decisions by the European Court of Human Rights as well as the infringement proceedings, relating to Roma school discrimination, against three Member States, namely the Czech Republic (2014), Slovakia (2015) and Hungary (2016); calls on the Commission to evaluate the respective corrective measures and their impact on Roma children;

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4 a. Calls for a redesigned CAP which would enable and promote innovative forms of agricultural work, including social cooperatives for Roma communities, which could also play and important role in creating a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system, would contribute to the realisation of the objectives of the and European Green Deal; calls for the promotion and exchange of best practices in this domain among the Member States;

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4 a. Recalls that the role of Roma educators in desegregating education is essential and that they should be part of the solution for geographically segregated schools, moreover, stresses that it is of utmost importance to strengthen their presence in the educational bodies in order to help the process of desegregation, to reduce analphabetism and to encourage in lifelong learning programs and adult education;

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Amendment 92Tomáš Zdechovský, Peter Pollák



4 a. Recommends strongly to continue training and employment of Roma as youth mentors and mediators to support transitions in education and to the labour market; highlights the need to target Roma (youth and women) more explicitly with active labour market policies, including the Youth Guarantee and to systematically monitor and fight discrimination with regard to labour market access and at the work place;

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Amendment 93Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Heléne Fritzon, Johan Danielsson



4 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop coordinated approaches for the integration of Roma children in society; in this sense, calls for the urgent adoption of the European Child Guarantee in the ESF+ with dedicated resources of 20 billion euros, to support lifting a generation out of poverty;

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4 b. Underlines that barriers to health care services and lack of basic heath awareness add to the widespread segregation of Roma students at school; in addition the widespread anti-gypsyism in the societies the Roma live in, the structural disadvantages they face in terms of pre-school enrolment and social exclusion constitute the root causes of segregated schools and discrimination against Roma children leading to a vicious cycle of unemployment and poverty; addressing, to that end, these root causes while also raising awareness is of paramount importance;

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4 b. Welcomes the effort of some Member States who have adopted legislative tools with a view to ensure compliance between quality to equality of education, while introducing inclusive education; the aim of such measures is to integrate Roma children as well as all other disadvantaged groups as much as possible into the education system from the early childhood education until upper secondary education, which is a condition for personal development and career;

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4 c. Highlights the importance of parents involvement in school and educational activities as well as the importance of raising their awareness in terms of the significance of pre-school education, children's enrolment and school attendance; regrets that despite the importance and benefits of pre-primary education on further educational paths, Roma children in some Member States still encounter limited access to pre-primary education and care compared to the majority of population leading to striking differences in the overall participation of Roma children in pre-school facilities;

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4 d. Regrets that results in education and employment show that the EU and its Member States are far from reaching the goals set by the EU Roma inclusion framework, especially for specific and critical indicators, such as the share of early school leavers, associated with the limited access to inclusive education at the primary and secondary level1a, inadequate educational and career guidance services and lack of supportive

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measures;_________________1a Proportionate rates of Roma vs. majority population in preschool education - in the Czech Republic was 34% (compared to 86% of the general population), in Poland 42% (compared to 94% of the general population), in Slovakia 34% (compared to about 77% of the general population). Source: EPRS - Roma Communities in Slovakia, 2020

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4 e. Recalls that the general opinion on the Roma mediators and health support programmes is positive, for instance in terms of facilitating access to health services, improving Roma´s hygienic and sanitary habits, or addressing specific health needs of Roma women; underlines that the Roma health mediators programme in Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia were scaled up by their respective governments, and their evaluations show positive changes i.e. less discriminatory behaviour of health providers and other obstacles impeding access to health in addition to educational activities targeting communities; underlines, however, that the evaluation of such programmes shows the need to move to new and more effective approaches, moving from Roma mediators to institutional reform tackling institutional discrimination throughout a system1b;_________________

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1b A Meta-Evalution of Interventions for Roma Inclusion, Joint Research Center, 2019, Publications Office of the European Union

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Draft opinionParagraph 4 f (new)


4 f. Strongly recommends to continue training and employment of Roma as youth mentors and mediators to support transitions in education and to the labour market; highlights the need to target Roma, both youth and women, more explicitly with active labour market policies, including the Youth Guarantee and to systematically monitor and fight discrimination with regard to labour market access and at the work place;

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5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support

5. Stresses the importance of having a holistic and inclusive approach in the implementation of national Roma integration strategies, integrating local, regional authorities, civil society and economic partners; calls on the Member States to implement, in partnership with the competent regional and local authorities, Roma-focused employment

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or internships with IT and language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers;

and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support trough professional learning or internships with IT and language training, including promotion of entrepreneurship skills; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers, especially Roma women; stresses that the full integration of Roma into the labor market would lead to significant economic benefits. All of these economic and financial consequences, linked to the integration of the Roma, could foster a climate of greater openness towards the Roma population within the society and thus strengthen social cohesion;

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5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support or internships with IT and language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job

5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, to adopt measures to overcome stereotypes and antigypsyism in the labour market, to provide parallel job placement support, training and re-qualification particularly for the green and digital transition, to support initial work experience, on-the-job training and internships with IT and

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seekers; language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers; calls on the Commission to promote the use of the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis of the EaSI programme, targeting Roma explicitly to improve their access to microfinancing and urges member States to provide access to financing for Roma entrepreneurs (SMS) by giving them technical assistance, financial support and access to market opportunities;

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5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support or internships with IT and language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers;

5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused social policies and monitor their results;

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Amendment 103Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Brando Benifei, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Heléne

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5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers;

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5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results, while at the same time not excluding other societal groups in similar situations; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support or internships with IT and language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and

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reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers;

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5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma jobseekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support or internships within the creative industries, IT and language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers;

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5 a. Is of the opinion that vocational education and training is still insufficiently recognised as a priority and a solution that offers a means of mobilising and providing opportunities for Roma young people and guaranteeing their economic independence; calls on the

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Member States to encourage stronger engagement of businesses, particularly at local level, and consider supporting the development of social enterprises to create sustainable workplaces for Roma;

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5 a. Calls on the Commission to consider Roma population in the framework of the updated Skills Agenda for Europe, and to encourage national public authorities to ensure that vocational training schemes targeting Roma reflect their specific situation, as well as the increased demands of the labour market in this sector; calls on Member States to promote skills training for the Roma population, fostering vocational educational training;

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5 a. Is of the opinion that vocational education and training is still insufficiently recognised as a priority and a solution that offers a means of mobilising and providing opportunities for Roma young people and guaranteeing their economic independence; emphasizes

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hat that programmes working best are those providing targeted VET with adequate support at local level;

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5 a. Highlights that Roma often work under precarious employment conditions or in atypical employment situations; is strongly of the opinion that the new instrument for temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) should be targeting the most vulnerable in the Member States;

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5 a. Calls on the Member States to improve the employment of Roma by taking different actions including active labour market measures as well as promoting social economy;

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5 a. Calls on the Commission to facilitate an exchange of best practices between Member States and to monitor the progress;

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Amendment 112Anna Júlia Donáth, Dragoș Pîslaru, Abir Al-Sahlani



5 b. Is of the opinion that the Roma are amongst the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemics and mostly its economic consequences in Europe; emphasizes that the EU needs to focus on the immediate needs of its citizens, giving quick and adequate answers to the occuring problems is inevitable in order to strengthen cohesion, increase the trust towards EU institutions and also to practise European values particularly solidarity; calls on the Commission to strengthen the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived in order to support families with long lasting food products, disinfectants, and information sheets about the virus;

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5 b. Calls on the Commission to bring EU law in line with the UN legal framework regarding the human right to water and expand the applicability of water-related directives to include problems with the accessibility and affordability of water supply and services; to develop indicators and monitoring mechanisms on social equity in access to water and sanitation in Member States, to task the EU Fundamental Rights Agency with conducting annual data collection, and to earmark funds to tackle limited access to water and sanitation supply services for socially excluded and ethnically-discriminated groups;

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5 b. Notes that ageing Europe faces shortages of skilled labour and young Roma population thus should not be perceived as a burden but as an opportunity and potential future workforce;

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5 b. Calls on the Member States to make the greatest effort in order to sensitise public opinion concerning Roma inclusion;

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5 c. Urges Member States to adopt with urgency laws explicitly recognising the human right to water and sanitation and ensure that all people enjoy access to safe drinking water and sanitation; ensure that informal housing conditions do not prevent people from enjoying the right to safe drinking water and sanitation; adopt policies and allocate budgets for connecting Roma settlements to public drinking water and sewerage systems; and ensure that adequate safe drinking water and sanitation facilities are available in Roma neighbourhoods and settlements;

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5 d. Calls on the Member States to ensure that residents of informal dwellings are protected from eviction and demolition of their homes, unless they are

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provided with alternative, standard housing in a desegregated setting with access to public services;

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5 e. Calls on Member States to minimise the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in overcrowded and inhuman housing conditions of Roma by legalising informal settlements of Roma, investing in infrastructure and housing improvement for newly legalized informal settlements and providing sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; alternatively, to provide permanent, decent, affordable, environmentally safe, desegregated housing for Roma currently living in informal settlements;

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5 f. Calls on Member States to adopt under the Covid-19 crisis urgent measures to address lack of water, adequate sanitation, electricity and needed infrastructure in poor Roma communities; to fully include Roma settlements in disinfection measures; to

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prohibit the cancellation of basic utility services during the pandemic; to consider subsidizing consumption costs for the most vulnerable and those who have lost incomes, or freezing payments until the end of the recovery plan period; to provide financial support for lone parents/single mothers for childcare, rent payments and other household expenses to alleviate the financial hardship, especially in light of the job losses;

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5 g. Calls on Member States to ensure that no Roma is left behind under the Covid-19 crisis, by supporting vulnerable Roma workers, particularly women and single parents; and by including specific provisions and indicators on Roma when implementing European instruments for temporary support (SURE and FEAD);

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6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is

6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is

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primarily within the remit of national and regional governments;

primarily within the remit of national and regional governments and that ineffective implementation of the Racial Equality and the Employment Equality Directives at the national level costs the EU €224–305 billion in lost GDP and €88-110 in lost tax revenue; calls on the Commission to closely monitor their compliance and urges Member States to end structural discrimination in access to employment and in the workplace, to promote positive narratives of diversity, providing anti-discrimination training for public employment services, employers, and staff; and to sanction discrimination;

_________________ _________________6 Article 3(1)(h) of Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.

6 Article 3(1)(h) of Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.

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6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments;

6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; expresses its deep concern that Member States continue to violate the housing rights of Roma, who often live in segregated settlements characterised by substandard living conditions, including the lack of public utilities, poor sanitation, the exposure to environmental hazards, and by the complete lack of public services, including

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education, healthcare and employment opportunities, roads and transport links, which result in Roma people’s compromised health, deep poverty and social exclusion;



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6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; highlights that poor access to housing and public utilities has a negative impact on education, employment and health outcomes and adversely affects social inclusion overall;



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6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; highlights that poor access to housing and public utilities has a negative impact on education, employment and health outcomes and adversely affects social inclusion;



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6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; calls on the Council to unblock negotiatons on the horizontal anti-discrimination directive as it is a prerequisite to achieve equality in the EU;

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6. Recalls the fact that the Racial Equality Directive6 provides protection and guarantees for equal treatment with regard to access to and supply of goods and services, including housing, which is primarily within the remit of national and regional governments; stresses the necessity to ensure proper and effective transposition and appropriate implementation of such a Directive;



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6 a. Recommends that in the area of targeted housing interventions, the

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existence of a participatory process engaging the Roma from the beginning is important; suggests that the housing policies should be based on the notion of cost sharing or beneficiary contributions for housing and utilities where Roma beneficiaries could organise to deploy their own initiatives and participate in the planning of their settlements1c;_________________1c A Meta-Evalution of Interventions for Roma Inclusion, Joint Research Center, 2019, Publications Office of the European Union

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7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma;

7. Calls on the Member States to define segregation in housing as illegal in line with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Form of Racial Discrimination; and to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to prevent, prohibit and eradicate forced evictions and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; the prevention of forced evictions should be strengthened through services such as social counselling, debt management and mediation, and active detection of households or areas at higher risk, and no evictions should take place without substitute standard, affordable housing in a desegregated setting with access to public service;

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7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of housing projects, to prevent forced evictions and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; emphasises the urgent need for public investments in this regard also due to the dangers of the COVID-19 epidemic, and urges the Commission and the Member States to utilize the planned Just Transition Fund for improving the housing-, health- and employment-related situation of the Roma;

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7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; finding solutions to evictions by engaging different institutions is key while actions addressing Roma housing should be integrated into broader national activities and legislative initiatives focusing on

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social housing or assistance programmes;

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7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation;

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7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; points out that geographical isolation and housing segregation keep members of ethnic minorities away from decent jobs, regardless of their qualifications;

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Amendment 133Dragoș Pîslaru, Anna Júlia Donáth, Cristian Ghinea, Samira Rafaela, Jordi Cañas, Radka Maxová




7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions, to address the issue of homelessness and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma;

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7 a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to ensure the integration of policies to combat antigypsyism in all its forms and to recognize environmental discrimination as a specific manifestation of antigypsyism. Environmental justice must be integrated as a stand-alone area in the post-2020 framework and should address the different forms of environmental discrimination such as the problem of forced evictions to polluted or contaminated areas, the systematic denial of environmental services, as well as the health risk associated with poor environment.

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7 a. Calls on the Member States to refer to territorial inequalities, residential segregation, and the comprehensive and multiple trait of disadvantages in the planning, targeting and implementation of Roma inclusion measures as territorial approach can be relevant in the planning and implementation of measures on social inclusion.

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7 a. Calls on the Member States to increase their efforts in providing access to safe drinking water and sanitation and implementation of right to the adequate standard of living, as well as right to a healthy environment, with special attention paid to the most vulnerable groups of Roma, such as children, women and elderly;

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7 a. While condemning discrimination when renting a house or applying for a job, recalls Member States’ obligation under the Racial Equality Directive 1e to designate a specialised body for the promotion of all persons without discrimination on grounds of race and ethnic origin;_________________1e Article 13 of Council Directive2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatmentbetween persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L 180, 19.7.2000,p. 22–26

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7 a. While condemning discrimination when renting a house or applying for a job, recalls Member States’ obligation under the Racial Equality Directive7a to designate a specialised body for the promotion of all persons without discrimination on grounds of race and ethnic origin;_________________7a Article 13 of Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L 180,

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7 a. Calls on member states to target policies that help people stuck in begging, including people with Romani background, to ordinary quality jobs, especially targeting youth helping them graduate school;

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7 b. Calls on the Member States to address the issues of housing and homelessness, through developing the social housing stock and through promoting non-discriminatory access to social housing;

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7 b. Encourages Member States to support successful projects such as microloans for Roma families to improve their living conditions;

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7 c. Highlights the promising approaches of "housing first" initiatives to prevent and combat homelessness and housing in segregated areas and calls on Member States to consider shifting from staircase model of service provision to housing-led services, complementing provision of housing with accompanying support combining elements of employment, education, health and community development;

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8. Welcomes the EU added value through the establishment of a close link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014-2020

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programming period and the NRIS and urges the Member States to publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;

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8. Welcomes the EU added value through the establishment of a close link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014-2020 programming period and the NRIS and urges the Member States to publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;

8. Is of the option that the EU added value is in jeopardy despite the fact that there is a link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014-2020 programming period and the NRIS, as ESIF fails to reach out to the most disadvantaged, in particular the Roma; calls on the Commission to actively reach out to Roma communities with its policies and programmes; and urges the Member States to do so and publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;

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8. Welcomes the EU added value through the establishment of a close link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014-2020 programming period and the NRIS and urges the Member

8. Welcomes the EU added value through the establishment of a close link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014-2020 programming period and the NRIS and urges the Member

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States to publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;

States to publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end and also to publish the list of funded projects;

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8. Welcomes the EU added value through the establishment of a close link between the European Semester, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in their 2014-2020 programming period and the NRIS and urges the Member States to publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;

8. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to make further efforts in the alignment of the European Semester, the ESF+ and all EU funds in the period 2021-2027 with the NRIS and the European Pillar of Social Rights, and urges the Member States to publicly declare the share of their national budgets that is allocated to this end;

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8 a. Notes that the question of the treatment of Roma has only attracted political attention in the European Union after their migration to Western Europe and that this migratory flow has been reinforced after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania; deplores that this migration has led to growing street homelessness, aggressive begging, and to ‘contingency’ housing in encampments on the edge of cities;

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9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma integration became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion; calls on the Member States and the Commission to guarantee that these changes will result in specific projects for the benefit of Roma on the ground8 .

9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma integration became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion; calls on the Member States and the Commission to guarantee that these changes will result in specific projects for the benefit of Roma on the ground,8 irrespective of the category of region; calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of the strategies at regular meetings with the Member States and publish reports on the distribution of funds in this direction.

_________________ _________________7 Annex XI on ex ante conditionalities, Part I: Thematic ex ante conditionalities, Investment Priority 9.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320.

7 Annex XI on ex ante conditionalities, Part I: Thematic ex ante conditionalities, Investment Priority 9.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320.

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9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma integration became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion; calls on the Member States and the Commission to guarantee that these changes will result in specific projects for the benefit of Roma on the ground8, and to look into causes of low absorption rates in some Member States, also in line with recommendations of Court of Auditors to the Member States and tot he Commission in its special report no. 14/20167a.



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7a European Court of Auditors, EU policy initiatives and financial support for Roma integration: significant progress made over the last decade, but additional efforts needed on the ground, 2016.

8 Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Revisiting the EU Roma Framework: Assessing the European Dimension for the Post-2020 Future, Open Society Institute, June 2017, p.17.

8 Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Revisiting the EU Roma Framework: Assessing the European Dimension for the Post-2020 Future, Open Society Institute, June 2017, p.17.

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9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma integration became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion;

_________________ _________________7 Annex XI on ex ante conditionalities, Part I: Thematic ex ante conditionalities, Investment Priority 9.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, OJ

7 Annex XI on ex ante conditionalities, Part I: Thematic ex ante conditionalities, Investment Priority 9.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, OJ

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L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320. L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320.8 Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Revisiting the EU Roma Framework: Assessing the European Dimension for the Post-2020 Future, Open Society Institute, June 2017, p.17.

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9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma integration became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion; calls on the Member States and the Commission to implement long-term, large scale and ambitious programmes and policies both from a target and a mainstream perspective8 .



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9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma inclusion became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion; calls on the Member States and the Commission to guarantee that these changes will result in specific projects for the benefit of Roma on the ground8 .





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9 a. Calls the attention of the Member States to develop mentor-programmes, tertiary education, leader academies and to foster local emancipation for young leaders as integrator actor, as well as grassroot Roma NGOs instead of pro Roma international NGOs; urges the creation of an effective monitoring system of EU money; recalls that not only clear desegregatory benchmarks and solutions for geographical segregation are needed but highlights that elementary changes should take effect first in public education as well; insists moreover that, in order to achieve an advanced level of solidarity, national curricula should be modified; stresses that structural changes are essential e.g. lowering kindergarten age and that in order to prevent segregating pupils in elementary schools, modern integral local schools should be developed and be given extra resources to transform into model schools; underlines that proper infrastructure is needed in order to make these institutions reachable to all students including non-Roma as well; highlights the fact, that by adding quality dual vocational training and encouraging carrier path development for Roma students, companies would get quality work force;

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9 a. Emphasises the importance of counterfactual impact evaluation methods in order to reduce the gap between policy frameworks and implementation on the ground; recalls that in 2016 the ECA has concluded that the monitoring and assessing the progress of the NRIS was a significant challenge for all visited Member States1f; reminds that a critical limitation for some interventions is the gap between the ambition and the capacity of the structure in place to achieve results, due to the lack of data based planning, insufficient budgeting and emergence of new unforeseen needs;_________________1f ECA, Special Report EU policy initiatives and financial support for Roma integration: significant progress made over the last decade, but additional efforts needed on the ground, 2016, p. 32 https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR16_14/SR_ROMA_EN.pdf

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9 a. Regrets the weak link between available funding tools and strategic plans and objectives related to the socio-economic development and inclusion of Roma; calls on the Member States to put

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in place efficient monitoring and oversight mechanisms to ensure that the funds allocated are properly spent and not misused;

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9 a. Calls on the Member States to strengthen the independence, resources, mandate and powers of their national equality bodies to step up against discrimination, including institutional discrimination, against Roma by implementing the European Commission Recommendation on standards for equality bodies;

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9 a. Is of the opinion that mainstreaming is still relevant, as only targeted measures cannot be effective enough, therefore enhances the further mainstreaming of the aspects of Roma integration in EU and national policy measures;

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9 b. Acknowledges that the transferral of interventions from one country to another is not a mechanic process; while the objectives, working methods and tools may be transferable, strategies and processes need to be adapted to the local setting and these conditions may relate to institutional capacity, the support of the different actors, or the local context; calls therefore on the Member States and the Commission to properly use the counterfactual impact evaluation methods and compare and explain the different Member States outcomes;

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9 b. Calls on the Commission as well as the Member States to evaluate the consequences of pandemic COVID-19 to the situation of Roma communities and to take effective measures using EU Funds in order to answer the identified challenges because the new framework strategy should be in line with the current situation in order to prevent increasing poverty and exclusion of communities;

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9 b. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to strengthen data and research to better identify and understand intersecting discrimination; encourages the European Commission to keep track of the multifaceted aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Roma communities using the combined AROPE indicator in Eurostat;

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9 c. Regrets the weak link between available funding tools and strategic plans and objectives related to the socio-economic development and inclusion of Roma; recalls that the one-off, short-term, single-focused interventions have little chance of success, especially when the needs are multidimensional and require integrated interventions; calls on the Member States to put in place more efficient monitoring and oversight mechanisms, a better consideration of Roma-specific criteria and explicit but not exclusive targeting of Roma people1g, to ensure that the funds allocated are properly spent and not misused; emphasizes that the monitoring is especially important in order to foresee and mitigate any potential risks to the successful implementation of the

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intervention and would further support evidence-based policy initiatives and more effective target setting and resource allocation;_________________1g ECA, Special Report EU policy initiatives and financial support for Roma integration: significant progress made over the last decade, but additional efforts needed on the ground, 2016, p. 74 https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR16_14/SR_ROMA_EN.pdf

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9 d. Recalls that the ECA concluded in 2016 that the ESIF funds were allocated among the Member States according to indicators with no specific relevance to the Roma population, such as overall population, unemployment rate or GDP and expressed the opinion that these indicators are not the most appropriate way of determining how much EU funding for Roma integration should be allocated to each Member State1h;_________________1h ECA, Special Report EU policy initiatives and financial support for Roma integration: significant progress made over the last decade, but additional efforts needed on the ground, 2016, p. 42 https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR16_14/SR_ROMA_EN.pdf

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9 e. Underlines that the effects of the coronavirus outbreak are being felt mostly by the most deprived, including the Roma communities, across the EU; deplores that Roma communities are being further discriminated and marginalised due to the coronavirus pandemic; regrets that the coronavirus outbreak might lead to cuts in the next MFF 2021-2027, negatively affecting CSOs advocating for Roma communities and thus affecting outreach to Roma communities;

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9 f. Encourages the Commission to build innovative, impact-oriented and data-based approaches as direct input to the next generation of programmes (2021-27 Invest EU programme and ESF+ programming) and strategies (notably the post-2020 EU strategy for Roma Equality and Inclusion).

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