Wider EU ‘offers chance’ to deprived Roma people

Enlargement of the European Union is seen as an opportunity for the Roma people of Eastern and Central Europe to fight discrimination, according to a report published on 16 January 2003 by the United Nations Development Programme. The Roma Human Development Report, entitled 'Avoiding the dependency trap', points out that by such measures as literacy, infant mortality and basic nutrition, most of the region's four to five million Roma endure conditions closer to those of sub-Saharan Africa than Europe.

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