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Unexpected Counter-Movements to Nationalism: the Hidden Potential of Local Food Communities

A new open access article that is based on research carried out within the framework of the SOLIDUS project (Solidarity in European Societies: Empowerment, Social Justice and Citizenship) is now available. Authors are the CEU CPS researchers who worked on the project: Sara Svensson, Peter Balogh and Andrew Cartwright.

Roma civil society: Latvia needs to investigate barriers to Roma inclusion

February 6, 2020

The second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report on Latvia has found that there are no specific national measures aimed at reducing unemployment among the Roma and the direct impact of various active labour market policies on Roma cannot be identified because the efficiency of such measures is not being assessed.

Roma civil society: The Netherlands must first do no harm when implementing inclusion

January 30, 2020

The second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report for the Netherlands has found that while the authorities have developed measures for implementing its equivalent of a National Roma Integration Strategy (NRIS), many are not just unsuccessful, but actually harmful to the Roma community. Access to the labour market is difficult for ethnic minorities generally, and the report finds even educated Roma face exclusion in the Netherlands due to inequality and sometimes due to statelessness.

Reflections on regional policy making

January 29, 2020

Sara Svensson published a Swedish-language and extended version of the blog post previously published on our site. The blog is a personal reflection coming out of her work within the project RSA Research Network on Regional Economic and Policy History, which sought to bring social scientists and historians closer together in research about and for regional development policy.

Traveller and Roma civil society: Ireland can do better at assessing integration progress

January 28, 2020

The second round of  Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) reports on Ireland relates that developments in policy to advance the human rights of Travellers and Roma since 2017 are seen as positive by civil society. Unfortunately, implementation remains weak. The employment gap between members of these minorities and the rest of society demonstrates that progress has yet to be made in that area.