EU report on Estonia

In its report on the situation of minorities in Estonia, the European Commission did not criticise the treatment of Russians living in the country, as expected, but rather the treatment of the Roma. Around 500 Roma live in Estonia. The newspaper is appalled: "Reading the EU commission's report you would think things were worse here than they were in South Africa in the times of Apartheid... The report was written by a Romanian and a Slovak; both come from countries in which discrimination against Roma is widespread. They've automatically ascribed this problem to our country, too, so that the real situation here in Estonia is not reflected in the report. ... What are we supposed to make of the report when the incompetence of those who wrote it is revealed like this?

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