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European Network on Social Inclusion and Roma under the Structural Funds
Structural Funds: Investing in Roma
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European Network on Social Inclusion and Roma under the Structural Funds
Structural Funds: Investing in Roma
EURoma, a European Network made up of representatives of twelve Member States, is determined to promote the use of Structural Funds (SF) to enhance the effectiveness of policies targeting the Roma and to promote their social inclusion.
Current Member States: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovakia and Sweden.
This EURoma event aimed at exchanging experiences between local and regional administrations working for the improvement of the living conditions of the Roma communities, gathered more than 100 participants coming from administrations of 12 countries.
During two days-work in the city of Rome (25th and 26th February) they share know-how, obstacles encountered and positive strategies to promote social inclusion of the Roma community in different countries.
Roma inclusion in a debate by the European Parliament
The plight of Europe's 10 million Roma population will fall under the spotlight Tuesday afternoon (9th March) when MEPs discuss an upcoming Roma summit. They will be putting questions to the European Commission and Council of Ministers about what is being done to improve the plight of the Roma. Physical and verbal violence and unequal access to services are just some of the issues that will be raised.
EU Strategy 2020 mention Roma inclusion
José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission, has presented the Europe 2020 proposal that the European Commission has just approved and that will be available to all the European public.
EURoma’s extraordinary Management Committee was held last 24th of February
Representatives from the Member States of EURoma, the European Commission and the Technical Secretariat gathered at ISFOL’s offices in order to agree the main lines of the report: “Roma and the Structural Funds”, which most probably will be presented in the II Roma Summit, April 2010.
The situation of the Roma in Europe: challenges and ways forward
The European Network against Racism (ENAR) dedicates its February newsletter to the situation of the Roma in Europe: challenges and ways forward.
The Spanish Presidency of the EU, the promotion of policies for Roma and the European Roma Summit
The Spanish Presidency is demonstrating the will to promote the Roma dossier on the EU agenda by bringing focus to objectives at the political level and by endowing existing instruments with substance. They will be presented in the upcoming Second European Roma Summit, to be held in Cordoba next April.
8th April 2010 - Cordoba, Spain
25th and 26th March 2010 - Strasbourg, France
16th March 2010 - Bratislava, Slovakia
16th and 17th March 2010 - Warsaw, Poland
15th and 16th March 2010 - Warsaw, Poland
10th and 11th March 2010 - Brussels, Belgium
3rd March 2010 - Brussels, Belgium
1st March 2010 - Budapest, Hungary
25th and 26th February 2010 - Rome, Italy
Wednesday, 24th February 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to noon - Strasbourg, France
22nd and 23rd February 2010 - Madrid, Spain
21st January 2010 - Madrid, Spain
20th January 2010 - Madrid, Spain
14th and 15th January 2010 - Oxford, United Kingdom
11-12 January 2010 - Athens, Greece
7-8 Dec 2009 ETF - Turin, Italy - Turin, Italy
