EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Fundamental rights

European Parliament calls on European Commission to ensure post-2020 strategy for integrating Roma is more closely followed than previous one

Brussels, 10/07/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Thursday 9 July, MEPs held a plenary session on the integration of Roma into European society. Michael Roth, German Minister for European Affairs, pointed out that the debate concerned 10-12 million people living in Europe and around 6 million EU citizens.

In his introduction to the debate, Mr Roth, representing the German Presidency of the EU Council, stressed that the results of the framework for national Roma integration strategies, as presented by the European Commission in 2011, had...