Loading ...Romanian MEP Gabriela Cretu (Social Democratic Party, PSD, in governing coalition) on Tuesday submitted a written statement in addition to the debate in the European Parliament's (EP) plenary session on the Kovacs report regarding the social situation of the Roma people andamelioration of their access to the European labour market, in which statement she stressed that the Roma organisations and communities should play an active role in drawing of such policies that concern them.
She also added social inclusion policies in the case of the Roma should be like a natural component of similar policies applied to all citizens of this world too.
„An European solution to the problems the Roma people are currently dealing with needs to observe several essential principles. Roma are citizens like any of us, although many of the Roma people are currently found in a more vulnerable position, due to discrimination and poverty.
Thus, it is natural the Roma organisations and communities to participate in drawing the policies which concern them. Policies are not for them, but with them. Moreover, such policies should be like a natural component of the social inclusion policies that are currently applied in the case of any citizen of our world,” the document says.
According to a press release, Gabriela Cretu considers that „there is need of increased efforts to ameliorate the conditions the Roma people are living in now and also their access to education and health, which are minimum conditions to help them get and keep a job.”
The Romanian MEP said that the Roma, as European citizens, benefit from the same rights and liberties like anyone else, including the right to free circulation, but draws attention that „such policies to encourage the mobility of non-skilled workers had a bad and unexpected effect, resulting in the growing discrimination of Roma people in the European states, with increasing racist and xenophobic reactions proving it.”
„Neither the member states, nor the European Commission, can use the economic crisis as an excuse not to implement social inclusion programmes, when this crisis should represent instead another reason for orchestrated action. The Roma community, like any other disadvantaged group, can be the first to pay, and the price is considerable, the effects of the crisis.
The aberrant reactions I saw in Italy leave us no hope the past can be avoided. Between seeking solutions and seeking the responsible for the evil in the society, the Right Wing has always preferred to blame others. As a representative of the Left Wing, I prefer to keep seeking solutions instead,” reads the release.
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