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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2007  
         
  Article:   ANOTHER DECADE, ANOTHER INCLUSION… (A FEW WORDS ON THE DECADE OF ROMA’S INCLUSION; A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE FROM RUMANIA).

Authors:  DAN OPRESCU ZENDA . 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  (Almost) nothing new under the sun. From time to time, somebody is deciding to tackle “once and for all” the Roma issue(s). The recent initiative of the World Bank, Open Society Institute & quite a few governments from the Central and South-Eastern Europe (CSEE) might be considered just that. Most of problems encountered by Roma of Rumania (and CSEE, for that matter) are very similar to the problems of the majority of the population, mainly due to the transitional difficulties (poverty, low education, subsistence farming, unemployment, unhealthy behaviour – including junk-food, smoking and alcohol – , crisis of traditional ways of life, domestic violence against women and children, corruption, inefficiency of public services, very low capacity to absorb foreign funds in order to alleviate/eliminate poverty – e.g.: PHARE, SAPARD, UNDP, USAID, Soros/OSI, numerous bilateral and international aid programs – etc.). Nevertheless, there are also some specific elements (mainly, related to widespread discrimination against Roma) which are making this transition (from communist dictatorship and from state-controlled economy to democracy and liberalism) even harsher than usual for people of Roma ethnic origin.  
         
     
         
         
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