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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11891

26 October 2017
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Jha
European Parliament calls for equal rights for Roma community and end to hate speech against it
Brussels, 25/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

In an own-initiative report adopted in Strasbourg on Wednesday 25 October by 470 votes in favour, 48 against and 103 abstentions, Soraya Post (S&D, Sweden) writes: “we are asking for nothing more nor less than for the Roma to be treated the same as the rest of society”.

Post herself has her origins in the Roma community and has been a human rights activist for 40 years.  She gave a particularly strong defence of her report during the debate preceding the vote and pointed out that the...

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