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European Network on Social Inclusion and Roma under the Structural Funds
Structural Funds: Investing in Roma
As a follow up to the 2008 EU Roma Summit in Brussels and the High Level Events in October 2009, and in the context of the European Year 2010 against poverty and social exclusion, the Commission is organizing a seminar on how to facilitate the use of EU funds to support projects aiming at the integration of the Roma in September in Hungary and a high level event in Romania in October.
Social Agenda, the European Commission's magazine on employment and social affairs, in its issue 24 (July 2010) dedicates the core of the publication to the Roma inclusion. Different perspectives (socioeconomic, institutional, political, etc.) are presented in the special feature of this magazine.
The relevance of using the Structural Funds for the Roma inclusion policies is highlighted in the study "The European Social Fund and Roma" which presents the interventions of the European Social Fund (ESF) for the Roma communities. It is one of a series of 21 studies describing what the ESF does and achieves on a range of policy topics or target groups.
On 23-24 June 2010 EURoma Network attended the “Shaping the future of the ESF - ESF and Europe 2020” conference in Brussels. The conference was organised by the European Commission and brought together experts on ESF from public authorities, social partners, NGOs and academics.
17th June 2010
The third meeting of the “Integrated Platform for Roma Inclusion" took place on 17th June in Brussels organised by the Spanish Presidency and the European Commission.
7th and 8th June
The Council of the European Union in its 3019th Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council meeting, held in
3 June 2010
Last 3rd of June 2010, the European Social Fund Committee in a meeting in Brussels expressed its wish to formulate an Opinion on the future of the European Social Fund (ESF) with a view to making a contribution to the future orientations of the ESF.
June 9th, 2010
The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) today launched the report of its Ad Hoc Expert Group on Promoting Equality in Employment in the European Parliament. The launch event was hosted by Sajjad Karim MEP, Vice-President of the EP’s Anti-racism and Diversity Intergroup.
The Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2010 covers a range of areas including social inclusion policy, housing, healthcare, the impact of the economic crisis on pension systems and governance.
17 May 2010
The European Commission recently published the ninth edition of its Social Situation Report.
EURoma attended the second European Roma Summit held last 8th and 9th April 2010 in Cordoba organised by the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy in the framework of the Spanish presidency activities.
EURoma Network will be present at the II European Roma Summit to be held in Córdoba (Spain) on 8-9 April and it has been included at the programme. Carlos Tortuero, from the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Migration, as leading partner, will be representing the Network at the plenary roundtable "Assessment of policies: progress and limitations".
25th and 26th February 2010
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.
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.
The Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA) has launched, on 9 November in
4th November 2009
Marginalised communities, such as the Roma, in all member states should get EU regional funding for housing, decided the European Parliament Regional Development Committee
1-2 October 2009
Spanish and European experts participated in the International Seminar on “Health and the Roma Community, Analysis of the Situation in Europe” 1-2 October 2009, organised by the Ministry of Health and Social Policy and the Fundación Secretariado Gitano.
13-15 October 2009
The first of a series of High Level Events on the most effective ways to use resources from the structural funds in order to improve the conditions of the Roma took place in Hungary between the 13th and 15th October 2009.
8 June 2009
The EU Council adopted a number of conclusions on the inclusion of the Roma at its 2947th Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs meeting, held in Luxemburg on the 8th of June 2009.
24th April 2009
The European Fundamental Rights Agency has analysed the situation of the Roma population in a ‘data in focus’ report, the first in a series of reports on minority groups and issues covered by the survey EU-MIDIS.
The Decade of Roma Inclusion (2005-2015) presidency is held annually by a participating Decade country according to a rotating schedule. Since July is the Serbian turn, the first non-EU country. Decade goals are to close the unacceptable gaps between Roma and the rest of society and to work toward elimination of discrimination through development and implementation of National Action Plans.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) commissioned the report: “Incident Report – Violent Attacks Against Roma in the Ponticelli district of Naples,
Seville, 22-23 January 2008
January 2008 twelve countries of the EU together with a wide representation of the European Commission launched in
