Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies : 2019; Annex 1: Country summaries on EU Member States

The European Commission published an evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS) up to 2020 on 4 December 2018. The evaluation assessed the EU framework and how it mobilised other European policy, legal and funding instruments for Roma inclusion. To complete the picture, this report of 2019 focuses on national implementation of Roma inclusion measures. The main sources of the assessment are: reports from National Roma Contact Points (NRCPs); civil society reports from the Roma Civil Monitor EP Pilot project, data on the situation of Roma from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); a meta-evaluation on Roma inclusion interventions. This report summarises the most important trends focusing on the four policy areas of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies (education, employment, health, housing), as well as fighting discrimination and antigypsyism. In each area the report highlights: the situation of Roma; summarises the main types of inclusion measures, achievements and challenges of their implementation (as reported by NRCPs); and formulates policy learning highlighting promising approaches and priorities to be addressed (based on existing evaluations, feedback from civil society and NRCPs).