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"Mr President, I am proud today to be sitting in the same Chamber as Mrs Járóka and Mrs Mohácsi, although not so proud that so few Members of this House or staff of the institutions belong to an ethnic minority. This is brought into sharp relief in this debate on the Roma. We have a situation where this group will certainly be the biggest minority after the next enlargement. There is consensus – apart from with the last speaker but one perhaps – that something must be done.
So what must be done? Mrs Bauer talked about the deep complexity of this problem. The fact is that we in this House are already able to point to those things that we can do, but that Member States will not do. For example, there is the race equality directive. I have seen cases of Roma people bringing employment discrimination cases in their own countries, but there are so few as to make this meaningless. We have in this House legislation already on the table that is not being implemented by Member States. It is certainly not being implemented in the new Member States.
With Mr Agnoletto this morning, I met members of the Roma community from Italy. As is the case of my own country, the United Kingdom, the diaspora of the Roma in so-called Old Europe are suffering as much if not more than in the new countries, because they are suffering the extra degradation of being immigrants and Roma.
We must address both issues. This is a unified struggle and – apart from one speaker with whom I and many of us absolutely disagree – I want to place on record that the problem is so complex that there should be an all-party move on this resolution, signed and supported by all parties, that we cannot live in a European Union where children from one ethnic minority are segregated in school, sent to school with people who supposedly have mental disabilities. That is not the European Union I want to live in and we have the instruments in this House to ensure that Member States start to act. I look forward to hearing whether the Commissioner will take urgent action."@en1
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