Vezi raport EN

IFRA – The second survey on European Union minorities and discrimination (EU-MIDIS II) Rome – selected conclusions1 In November, FRA published „The second survey on European Union minorities and discrimination (EU-MIDIS II) – selected conclusions”. This report highlights a dis- turbing reality, but inevitable: the largest ethnic community of the European Union continues to face an inadmissible discrimination and unequal access to vital services. Approximately 80% of the Roma live under the threshold of poverty of their country; every third Rom lives in house without tap water; every third Rom child lives in a household with someone who went to bed hungry at least once in the previous month and 50% of Roma aged between six and 24 years do not attend school.

Highlighting the barriers persisting to employment, education, housing and health, this re- port also shows that four out of 10 Roma questioned, considered themselves discriminated at least once in the past five years.

Labour market – with regard to Romania, particularly low rates of auto-declared unemploy- ment are noticed, respectively 5%, followed by Portugal with 17% and Hungary with 23%.

Participation to education – In relation to the survey of Roma in 2011, the results of this report suggest an increase in the participation rates in all countries, except Romania and Portugal. However, these rates fall within the EU’s reference value for 2020 regarding the early childhood education and are well below the general population rates.

Health – Romania continues to record the lowest rates of health insurance coverage for persons of Roma origin.

  1       http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2016-eu-minorities-survey-roma-
  selected-findings_en.pdf

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