61 Amendments of Klára DOBREV related to 2020/2011(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard the Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin(Race Equality Directive) and the Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the existing EU Framework (EUFW) for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020 principally treats Roma in the EU as a homogenous group, shows little sensitivity to local contexts and has a limited capacity for addressing intra-Roma ethnic and socioeconomic diversity and multiple identity and multiple discrimination issues1a; _________________ 1aExpert reports building on forward- looking aspects of the evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, Considering the Diversity of the Roma population in a post-2020 EU-initiative for Roma equality and inclusion, January 2020.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas gender equality and the situation of Roma children and youth are two key areas of intervention for integration and inclusion of Roma that are insufficiently addressed both at the European level and at the level of Member States2a; _________________ 2aExpert reports building on forward- looking aspects of the evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, Considering the Diversity of the Roma population in a post-2020 EU-initiative for Roma equality and inclusion, January 2020, p. 16.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas persisting socioeconomic and health inequalities and multilayered forms of discrimination, including antigypsysm and ageism, put Roma elderly in a particularly vulnerable position;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
A d. whereas combatting structural discrimination of Roma, including the priority areas of education, employment, access to healthcare and housing, and making significant improvement in their socioeconomic status rests on the increase of social and cultural capital in the environments with Roma communities and on long-term, multi-stakeholder approach to Roma integration with active participation of Roma in all stages;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
A e. whereas equality data collection refers to all types of disaggregated data used to assess the comparative situation of specific groups at risk of discrimination, to design public policies that contribute to promoting equality and to assess their implementation, based on evidence and not mere assumptions; whereas the collection of such data (i.e. data revealing ethnic origin or religion) requires exclusive consent of the subjects of data collection and can often be controversial; whereas what is clearly forbidden is racial or ethnic profiling, where people are, without their consent, identified on the basis of third-party perceptions or generalisations based on race, ethnicity, religion or national origin;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
A f. whereas the available data and surveys show much higher rates of unemployment and significantly lower levels of income for the Roma than for the majority population or other disadvantaged ethnic minority groups; whereas the Roma face similar barriers as other ethnic minority groups but more intensively, due to a vicious circle of low education, low qualifications and labour market exclusion;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
A g. whereas individuals belonging to minority groups continue to be discriminated against when they are applying for jobs and even once they are in a job, continue to face unequal treatment; whereas lower wages, lack of career prospects, precarious and difficult working conditions, sticky floor and glass ceiling, harassment, and abusive dismissal, are just some of the manifestations; whereas ethnic minorities are more likely to have less access to employment rights and protection; whereas ethnic origin also seems to matter as regards harassment in the workplace, and to be a major obstacle for career advancement;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
A h. whereas EU-MIDIS II3a finds that only one in four Roma aged 16 years or older reports “employed” or “self- employed” as their main activity at the time of the survey and that Roma women report much lower employment rates than Roma men – 16 % compared with 34 %; whereas, overall, the survey shows paid work rates for Roma aged 20-64 years to be 43 %, which is well below the EU average of 70 % in 2015; whereas the situation of young people is substantially worse: on average, 63 % of Roma aged 16-24 were not employed, in education or training at the time of the survey, compared with the12 % EU average on the NEET rate for the same age group; whereas, for this age group, the results also show a considerable gender gap, with 72 % of young Roma women not employed, in education or training, compared with 55 % of young Roma men and in stark contrast with the rest of the population; _________________ 3aEuropean Commission, EU-MIDIS II: Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey, October 2018.
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the infringement proceedings titled Non-conformity with Directive 2000/43/EC on Racial Equality - Discrimination of Roma children in education (infringement numbers 20142174, 20152025 and 20152206);
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas EU-MIDIS II4a shows that 80 % of Roma continue to live below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold of their country; that one in 10 people live in housing without electricity; and that every fourth Roma (27 %) and every third Roma child (30 %) live in a household that faced hunger at least once in the previous month; _________________ 4aEuropean Commission, EU-MIDIS II: Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey, October 2018.
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the General Policy Recommendation No. 13 of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI);
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas spatial segregation remains one of the key challenges in the area of housing; whereas significant progress made in the field of social housing should be maintained by public support and necessary legislation5a; whereas 43 % of Roma are discriminated against when trying to buy or rent housing and are not sufficiently aware of their rights in terms of equality5 ; _________________ 5European Commission, 2019 Report on National Roma Integration Strategies: Key Conclusions, p. 6. 5aEuropean Commission, 2019 Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies, pp. 8-9.
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)
Citation 15 b (new)
- having regard to the Poznan Declaration of Western Balkans Partners on Roma Integration within the EU Enlargement Process;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas Roma have been one of the most vulnerable groups in the Covid- 19 pandemic; whereas the economic and social consequences of the health crisis threaten to hit the Roma population the hardest and deepen the existing inequalities in all priority areas of Roma integration; whereas antigypsysm is present also in the form of scapegoating the Roma and ethnicisation of the Coronavirus crisis6a; _________________ 6aEuropean Commission, Overview of the impact of coronavirus measures on the marginalised Roma communities in the EU, May 2020, p. 1.
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas institutional discrimination exists towards people of Romani background in all spheres of life including housing, education, healthcare and employment; whereas they often face challenges when accessing social, employment and healthcare services;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority and one of the minority groups in Europe that faces the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion, continuous discrimination and unequal access to various vital services, which not only accounts for high number of individual human rights violations but also undermines social cohesion, economic ands social potential of the EU; 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);
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas Roma face discrimination in employment initiatives such as the Youth Guarantee, whereas Public Employment Services often lack capacity to reach Roma, or apply indirect discrimination practices;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas according to the EU- MIDIS II survey paid work rates for Roma aged 20-64 years with 43 % was well below the EU average of 70 % in 2015, whereas the situation of young people is substantially worse with 63 % of Roma aged 16-24 not in employment, education or training, compared with the 12 % EU average, whereas the results show a considerable gender gap, with 72 % of young Roma women not in employment, education or training, compared with 55 % of young Roma men;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls on the Member States to adopt Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, COM/2008/0426final, 2 July 2008;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls on European Commission to prepare a post-2020 EUFW that will reflect the existing diversity and multiple identities among Roma, integrate the gender equality principle and emphasis on Roma children and youth as key factors of positive change, and uphold an intersectional and multi-stakeholder approach to national integration strategies, where Roma are actively engaged from the preparatory to implementation stages of integration measures;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas only 21 % of Roma women and 25 % of Roma men aged 16– 24 have completed secondary education (ISCED3) or higher; whereas almost 70% of Roma youth aged 18-24 were early leavers from education and training; whereas little or no progress have been achieved towards ending educational discrimination and systemic segregation with regards to the infringement proceedings against several Member States;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Highlights that employment is the main path to social inclusion and ethnic minorities must therefore have the possibility to fully participate in the labour market and the “equal status and equal pay for equal work” principle shall apply to all workers;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Calls on the Commission to present a Communication on guidelines and standards for discrimination-free recruitment policies for Member States and employers, including recommendations for the adoption of equality plans at company level and in sectoral collective agreements and the implementation of diversity taskforces in the workplace, including tackling stereotypes, prejudice and negative attitudes, preventing discrimination in recruitment, promotion, pay and access to training; highlights that these equality action plans should be also used to promote ethnic and cultural diversity at the workplace, to develop internal regulations against racism, related discrimination and harassment in the workplace, to monitor and review recruitment, progression and retention of workforce by equality strand in order to identify direct or indirect discriminatory practices and to adopt corrective measures to reduce inequality in each of these areas and, to this effect, collect equality data in respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Calls on the Commission to adopt a common EU framework for the collection and analysis of reliable and comparable disaggregated equality data for the purpose of combating discrimination, including in employment; adds that this should comprise labour market indicators to measure equality, including the employment position of migrants and minority groups, with full respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas no legal or political measures have been taken against Member States to end residential segregation, forced evictions and to ensure access to quality housing;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas Roma people suffer increased hate speech in public, in social media and by public figures and politicians, police violence, including collective punishment, racial profiling, residential and school segregation;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Member States to encourage stronger engagement of businesses, particularly at local level, and consider supporting the development of social enterprises to create sustainable workplaces for Roma, with a focus on Roma women;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a Directiven EU Strategic Framework for theRoma Equality and Inclusion of People with Romani Background, Social and Economic Justice and Combating Antigypsyism, developed on the basis of more realistic quantitative and qualitative data, a legislative act with a binding character on the European Union and its Member States, is needed and must be proposed by the Commission;
Amendment 86 #
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; calls for reinforced effort to increase participation of Roma children in the whole education lifecycle, from pre-school to the tertiary level;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop coordinated approaches for the integration of Roma children in society; in this sense, calls for the urgent adoption of the European Child Guarantee in the ESF+ with dedicated resources of 20 billion euros, to support lifting a generation out of poverty;
Amendment 103 #
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 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 crisis threaten to hit the Roma population the hardest and deepen the existing inequalities in all priority areas of Roma integration;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas expert reports on the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies recognise that Roma LGBTI face a range of facets of discrimination: first as people with Romani background, secondly as LGBTI, thirdly as LGBTI persons in Roma communities; whereas some LGBTI people with Romani background may resort to suppressing aspects of their identity as a result;
Amendment 132 #
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; points out that geographical isolation and housing segregation keep members of ethnic minorities away from decent jobs, regardless of their qualifications;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the Commission must develop a proposal for a post-2020 directiveframework for equality and inclusion of people with Romani background in Europe putting the fight against poverty and, anti- gypsyism at the forefrontnd improving living and health conditions at the forefront and combining targeted and mainstream approach; stresses that the new proposal must include clear and binding objectives, measures and targets for the Member States, a clear timeline and clear and binding progress requirements, as well as success indicators and adequate funding for its implementation as well as explicit guidelines for Enlargement Countries; emphasises the need for a robust monitoring and oversight mechanism to ensure effective implementation and appropriate use of funds; notes that equal participation in all domains of public life, political participation, and the language, arts, culture, history and environment of people with Romani background should be explicitly mentioned in the proposal for post-2020 EU public policy for people with Romani background, as additional measures to the four main priority areas of education, employment, housing and healthcare;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Member States to increase their efforts in providing access to safe drinking water and sanitation and implementation of right to the adequate standard of living, as well as right to a healthy environment, with special attention paid to the most vulnerable groups of Roma, such as children, women and elderly;
Amendment 149 #
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 , and to look into causes of low absorption rates in some Member States, also in line with recommendations of Court of Auditors to the Member States and tot he Commission in its special report no. 14/20167a. _________________ 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. 7aEuropean Court of Auditors, EU policy initiatives and financial support for Roma integration: significant progress made over the last decade, but additional efforts needed on the ground, 2016. 8Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Revisiting the EU Roma Framework: Assessing the European Dimension for the Post-2020 Future, Open Society Institute, June 2017, p.17.
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to develop a proposal for a post-2020 EU directive for the equality and inclusion of people with Romani background, giving priority to (i) achieving a positive impact; (ii) a rights-based approach, including a plan to eliminate social and economic inequalities; (iii) developing a vision for the future proposal, including specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time- bound objectives to protect and improve the inclusion of people with Romani background; and (iv) eliminating inequalities, especially for children from their earliest years; and those with Romani background facing multiple discrimination, such as women and girls, LGBTI persons and people with disabilities.
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to develop a proposal for a post-2020 EU directiveframework for the equality and inclusion of people with Romani background, giving priority to (i) achieving a positive impact; (ii) a rights-based approach, including a plan to eliminate social and, economic and health inequalities; (iii) developing a vision for the future proposal, including specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time- bound objectives to protect and improve the inclusion of people with Romani background; and (iv) eliminating inequalities, especially for children from their earliest years;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to integrate an inclusive mechanism for participation and accountability in order to ensure the equal participation of Romani and pro- Romani civil society organisations, experts and community members, including those active at local and regional level, taking into account a gender perspective in both the policy debate and in decision-making;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to tacklrecognise anti-gypsyism across the key as a specific form of racism and demands effective European and national legislative and policy measureas of the proposal for the post-2020 directiveto tackle anti-gypsyism both in Member States and Enlargement Countries across all areas;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to consider adesign new funding tools or sub- programmes that should be linked to an existingcomplementary to the measures of the Member States and support the progress in all key areas set out in the new post-2020 framework, existing and future EU educational and social funding programmeinitiatives, such as Erasmus Plus, the Child Guarantee or the European Social Fund, for Plus, and should ensure targeted and tailored support for Roma in quality education for pupils with Romani background between the ages of 3 and 18as well as quality employment services for Roma youth not in employment, education and training who are contending with extreme poverty and do not have access to existing EU educational and social inclusiondequate access to these funding instruments;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States on a common methodology to collect and publish equality data disaggregated by ethnic origin as defined by the EU race directive that is voluntary, anonymous and ensures the protection of personal data, self- identification and consultation with relevant communities;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls upon the European Commission, Member States and Enlargement Countries to adjust the existing mainstream financial mechanisms and make them flexible for blended use of funds in Roma communities by enabling access to information, outreach, capacity building, delivery of technical assistance and guarantees during the funding application process as well as to combat anti-gypsyism;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission to effectively respond to the concern about the increasingly shrinking space for independent civil society in some Member States; recalls the importance of ensuring adequate funding to support activities of Roma civil society;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to develop post-2020 National Strategies for the Inclusion of People with Romani Background accompanied by a comprehensive joint assessment framework and based on realistic quantitative and qualitative data with an adequate pre- defined budget, incorporated into the national, regional and local budgets and which reflects the scale of the social inclusion needs of people with Romani background;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to strengthen the participation of people with Romani background in policy-making, moving fr ensuring that Rom a paternalistic to a non- paternalistic approachand civil society organizations are fully involved in the design, implementation and monitoring of the framework, and making Roma participation a binding common quality standard for the future framework and national strategies;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to develop more efficient and strengthened monitoring mechanisms involving Roma representatives and NGOs to ensure that the funds allocated reach Roma and are properly spent and not misused;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on Member States to allocate sufficient funding for improving the general health condition of people with Romani background through health- and sexual education and educational campaigns, mobile health screening in segregated areas, prevention and through training health and social workers to tackle discriminatory practices;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to include human rights and democratic citizenship training as well as Roma history in their school curricula, to design awareness-raising campaigns on anti- gypsyism and to ensure adequate representation of Roma in public media in order to structurally address respect for diversity and intercultural understanding, to fight stereotypes and the subconscious societal consensus to exclude Roma and to strengthen awareness of rights and exercising of such rights;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to protect Roma from threats by far-right groups, investigate incidents of police abuse and ensure Roma participation in law enforcement and security forces;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Calls on the Member States to invest in digital literacy programmes that can support Roma children;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)
Paragraph 12 e (new)
12e. Calls on the Member States to specifically target mitigation of the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 pandemic on Romani people who experienced intensified scapegoating and hate speech including by politicians;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
Paragraph 12 f (new)
12f. Calls on the Member States to respect Article 31 of the revised European Social Charter dealing with the right to housing and step up investing in social and affordable housing to eradicate the housing cost overburden, particularly among marginalised groups;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 g (new)
Paragraph 12 g (new)
12g. Welcomes the Council of Europe statements that the phenomenon of online hate speech requires further analysis and action with a view to regulating and finding new ways of combating rhetoric of this kind such as alternative narrative and fact checking technologies; supports the Code of Conduct with IT companies and urges the EU and its Member States to work closely with IT companies to prevent illegal content online such as incitement to hatred;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 h (new)
Paragraph 12 h (new)
12h. Calls on the Member States to ensure the effective enforcement of the Race Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia to combat persisting anti- gypsyism;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 i (new)
Paragraph 12 i (new)
12i. Calls on Member States’ to secure equal access to justice and equality before the law for Roma and effectively fight structural anti-gypsyism taking shape in over-policing and violations of rights committed by police officers, such as violent raids resulting in injuries and property damage, severe ill-treatment during detention and failure to bring perpetrators to justice in cases of crimes committed by police officers;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 j (new)
Paragraph 12 j (new)
12j. Condemns Roma women ethnic segregation in maternal health care facilities; calls on Member States to immediately prohibit all forms of ethnic segregation in health facilities, including maternal health care settings; calls on Member States to ensure effective and timely remedies to all survivors of forced and coercive sterilization, including through the establishment of effective compensation schemes;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 k (new)
Paragraph 12 k (new)
12k. Condemns the incidents of hate crime and hate speech motivated by anti- gypsyism; calls on all the Member States to address the lack of reporting of hate crimes by victims due to inadequate safeguards and failure of authorities to properly investigate and bring convictions for hate crimes in Member States;