The Next Challenges of the Oldest Minority. On Roma inclusion
The Next Challenges of the Oldest Minority. On Roma Inclusion

Summary/Abstract: The Roma inclusion policy is entering for politics, in the mainstream of scientific research. In the last decade, the advance in understanding and structuring a coherent conception on the topic is evident. However, it is unclear how the Roma inclusion policy is itself integrated in the evolution of the Romania and how the distribution of competences between EU and Member States on this matter is evolving. The study aims to show that, in spite of growing EU involvement, the domain is currently still reined by the national authorities. But how long will Romania be able to preserve this power and how can this process be tackled at national level in order to achieve effective results? We think that effectiveness of this policy depends, among other, on the determination to consolidate the Romanian civic nation as an inclusive nation which supports the right to distinctiveness of the national minorities' members. In the general centralizing trend at the European Union level, this issue could become a vehicle to transport power from the Member States to the European Union, by using subsidiarity, if the states will prove themselves unable to develop an effective Roma inclusion policy.

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