Activities of Guido REIL related to 2020/2011(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of National Roma Integration Strategies: Combating negative attitudes towards people with Romani background in Europe
Amendments (10)
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that Roma are one of the minority groups in Europe that face the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion; notes with regret that despite measures introduced in the last decade, progress in the areas of housing, employment, education and healthcare has been limited; calls on local authorities and governments to single out as a priority the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS)notes that the labour markets are rapidly changing and that this has led to a deterioration of the position of the mostly unqualified Roma;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that while many Roma have been successfully integrated in the changing labour markets, a very large part of the Roma insists on remaining on the margins of society because of a desire to retain its identity and traditional values; notes that many Roma fail to fulfil basic administrative requirements and have no documentary proof of ownership for land and buildings and that, consequently, whole neighbourhoods do not officially exist; notes that many adults and children remain administrative invisible with very limited access to healthcare, education and social service;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that education has traditionally been undervalued within the Roma communities and that many Roma hold a deep-rooted scepticism towards formal education; points out that because of the lack of socialisation, many Roma children have difficulties at school; highlights that because of patriarchal traditions, Roma girls are forced to leave the school early; underlines that in general Romani women and girls are significantly discriminated within their own community and are undervalued;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for an urgent and thorough commitment by the relevant state authorities to the desegregation of Roma pupils in schools, as Roma children are often educated in segregated environments, while the misdiagnosis of Roma children as having special educational needs is still a common discriminatory practice;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the competent regional and local authorities implement Roma-focused employment and social policies and monitor their results; calls on them, furthermore, to make the empowerment of Roma job seekers a priority for public employment services and employers, and to provide parallel job placement support or internships with IT and language training; stresses the key role of public employment services in promoting Roma employment in the civil service and reaching out to disadvantaged Roma job seekers;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design and implementation of housing projects, to reduce and prevent forced evictions and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Notes that the question of the treatment of Roma has only attracted political attention in the European Union after their migration to Western Europe and that this migratory flow has been reinforced after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania; deplores that this migration has led to growing street homelessness, aggressive begging, and to ‘contingency’ housing in encampments on the edge of cities;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges that specific funding priority for Roma was introduced in the Common Provisions Regulation7 and that country-specific recommendations related to Roma integration became a requirement for granting funds for its promotion; calls on the Member States and the Commission to guarantee that these changes will result in specific projects for the benefit of Roma on the ground8 . _________________ 7 Annex XI on ex ante conditionalities, Part I: Thematic ex ante conditionalities, Investment Priority 9.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320. 8Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Revisiting the EU Roma Framework: Assessing the European Dimension for the Post-2020 Future, Open Society Institute, June 2017, p.17.