Meeting with DG NEAR

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Monday, 16 March 2015 14:04

Representatives of the Decade Focal Point Network and the Secretariat of the Decade had a meeting with Ms Marta Garcia Fidalgo, coordinator for Roma issues in the Directorate General for EU Neighbourhood Policy and the Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), with whom they discussed the future participation of civil society in the new initiative for the integration of Roma.

Under the current draft program of the Roma Integration 2020, this initiative should inherit the Decade of Roma Inclusion, which ends in October 2015. The new initiative will be under the auspices of the European Commission, while the funds for its operation will be co-financed by the Open Society Foundation. Unlike the Decade, whose members were the EU countries, this initiative will be composed by the countries of the Western Balkan countries and Turkey.

Executive Director of the NGO Young Roma, Mr Samir Jaha, attended this meeting.