Die Inklusionsstrategie der EU gegenüber den Roma am Beispiel der Tschechischen Republik

Abstract

In 2011, the European Commission adopted the <italic>Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020</italic> which was a reaction to the failure of similar national strategies of its member countries and continuing discrimination and segregation of Roma in these countries. The main objectives of the European strategy are to combat discrimination and to ensure social and economic inclusion of Roma into the majority society. The main aim of the article is to give an overview of the cooperation between the European Union and its member states on the issue of Roma integration. To be more concrete, such kind of cooperation is analysed more thoroughly on the example of the Czech Republic, for which the inclusion of Roma is one of the most important tasks of its social development goals. Moreover, this country has been several times criticised by the European Union for its insufficient endeavour regarding the integration of Roma. The National Roma Integration Strategy by 2020 is aimed to improve the situation of Roma especially in the subjects of housing, health care, work and education. However, this strategy is also criticised by national NGOs from the point of view of both financial and institutional support.