This article comes to us from the Roma Virtual Network. We do have to ask if this is fair. Are other minorities subjected to such measures? By creating a 'complex' system, does it benefit the Rromani or the government? Is this a forced assimilation? Is this not a unique form of slavery?
Czech PM: We solve Roma issue not forgetting that Czech citizens have both rights and obligations
04 October 2011 14:24 FOCUS News Agency
Prague. “We want to solve the Roma issue in the Czech Republic through integration and avoid the social exclusion,” said Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas at e joint press conference with Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov in Prague, FOCUS News Agency reporter informed.
“We want to apply a complex system of measures, which to allow the Roma society get education but also to act in a way that will make people realise that apart from the rights they also have some obligations. For instance, the social benefits could be bind to children’s going to school. It is up to the Roma parents whether their kids will go to school or not,” Petr Nečas remarked.
“We want a system that will allow the Roma people integrate at the labour market. As of next year the social benefits will be paid only if the people perform community service; if they do not perform certain amount of community service, then they will not receive social benefits,” the Czech prime minister said.
“We aim at full integration at the labour market; the issue about their [Roma people’s] accommodation should be solved too, because they live in communities, ghettos and etc. We do not examine the issue as ethnic or racial, but as a social one. Apart from the rights, being citizens of the Czech Republic, we have also obligations,” Petr Nečas said.
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