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Protecting the right of Roma in the EU
27-12-2003 | Petra Hajdu
The Roma, or gypsies, will become the biggest ethnic minority group within
the EU, when the bloc expands in May next year - There are now an
estimated 8.5 million Roma living in Europe, around 70 per cent of them
are in Central and Eastern Europe. They are also Europe's poorest group.
So will they do better as EU citizens? The first Roma rights lobby group
to base itself in the EU heartland has opened an office in Brussels. At
it's helm is a young Hungarian woman of Roma origin, Angela Kocze. Petra
Hajdu of Radio Budapest asked Angela what can the Roma Information office
achieve...
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