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The latest survey on the status of the European Union’s largest Roma minority should be seen as an occasion for stock-taking on the effectiveness of the racial equality legislation. Conducted by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and the United Nations Development Programme, the study points to the need to expand education and employment opportunities to end the vicious cycle of exclusion, discrimination and poverty in this community. Of those covered in the survey, carried out across 11 EU member states, a meagre 15 per cent of adult Roma had attained education up to higher secondary levels compared to over 70 per cent among the non-Roma majority. Similarly, less than 30 per cent were in paid employment and 45 per cent lived in households lacking one or another basic amenity. Of particular concern is the finding that deprivation among the Roma is acute even in EU countries with a higher standard of living. The FRA evidence corroborates a recent Amnesty International report which highlights disturbing findings of discrimination and persecution of Roma communities. The term Roma covers a wide diversity of groups, including Gypsies and others with itinerant lifestyles. The Roma population is in the region of 10-12 million, as per estimates of the Council of Europe. According to historians, between a quarter and half a million were exterminated in the Nazi Holocaust. In the past decade, segregation and violence against the Roma associated with anti-immigration tendencies have been widespread in France, Romania and Bulgaria. In recent years though, Germany has initiated several measures to commemorate its Roma heroes in the cultural and sporting arenas.
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