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Roma Civil Monitor: Patchy progress on social inclusion leaves Roma dangerously vulnerable in the current pandemic and the looming economic crisis

April 23, 2020

Persistent discrimination in education and the labour market, poor access to health services and residential segregation have combined to render Roma communities dangerously vulnerable in the current pandemic and the upcoming economic crisis. According to the newly published Roma Civil Monitor Synthesis Report, the most endangered members of Europe’s largest ethnic minority are third-country nationals and those Roma exercising their right to free movement in the EU.

Non-Local Workers in Hungarian Automotives. Changing environments for worker mobility and modes of interest formation

CPS researchers Tibor T. Meszmann and Olena Fedyuk wrote a working paper on the research findings of the project on employment of non-local temporary workers in the Hungarian automotive industry.

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CEU CPS joins Post-2020 European Roma Coalition

April 15, 2020

The CEU Center for Policy Studies joins an emerging Post-2020 European Roma Coalition aimed at advocating for effective EU Roma inclusion and equality policy.

Unionisation of Non-Local Workers: Capacity Building Opportunity for Trade Unions?

A policy brief has been published by CPS researchers Tibor T. Meszmann and Olena Fedyuk in frame of their research project on employment of non-local temporary workers and its impact on local industrial relations in the Hungarian automotive industry.

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Roma civil society: Greece can leverage Roma community strengths to promote inclusion

The second round of  Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) reports on Greece reports that a Special Secretariat for Roma Inclusion has been recently established there to act as the focal point for collecting information, planning, and receiving complaints about the social inclusion of Greek Roma people. For the first time, the Greek state is holistically approaching the issue of Greek Roma exclusion and connecting employment promotion measures with the social areas prerequisite to being employable (education, health, housing and training).