EESC opinion: Intercultural dialogue and the Roma

Key points

The EESC:

• emphasises that from now, instead of developing strategies for the Roma and carrying out analyses on them, specific measures must be developed together with the Roma;
• is ready, within the limits of its competences, to participate in such measures or to take its own initiatives in close cooperation with Roma organisations;
•  will develop its relations with institutions, organisations and other bodies active in this field;
• sees intercultural dialogue as a suitable instrument to achieve integration, or inclusion, of the Roma, with regard both to the role played by Roma women in this process and to education.