Europe's Roma

Not special treatment but equality for the Roma is the solution to the integration problem in Europe, writes Die Presse: "For the first time, Europe's largest minority is present at the EU table while their fate is being decided. And behold: the Roma don't want special settlements, but access to low-cost housing. They don't need employment schemes for unskilled workers, but well mixed school classes. Half of the Roma in Eastern Europe are under 20. Instead of using their potential we shunt them into special schools, although education is the sole means we have at our disposal. But for it to work effectively, the 'Europeans' would have to play along as well and allow their children to sit beside these urchins in class. If they did, it could well be that in two generations there would no longer be a problem the very naming of which gives us so much trouble."

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