The situation of the Gypsy minority in Hungary.
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The situation of the Gypsy minority in Hungary Name: Judith Hamburg ID: 0223263 Mailbox: 220 Date: 26-04-04 Assignment: 2 Version: final draft Tutor: Wiebe Nauta When we try to observe the multidimensional socio-economic faultlines between Western Europe and former Communist states in Central or Eastern Europe, one of the most striking problems seems to be that of minority discrimination. The most suppressed ethnical group in Central and Eastern Europe are the gypsies. Poland, the Czechs Republic and Hungary are becoming EU-members in a few days, Bulgaria and Romania are candidates for probable accession in 2007. Thus all these countries should lay emphasis on the "fight against discrimination and pauperism" (Ferge, 2004) which is a key aim of the "euro-social model" (ibid.) stressed by the European Union. I will focus in my essay on the situation of the gypsies in Hungary, where it is an understood thing that "the...


