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07/10/2010

Why Europe's Roma stay poor

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Assignment investigates efforts to tackle poverty among the Roma minority in Romania

For Assignment Nick Thorpe travels to Romania to investigate efforts to tackle poverty among the Roma minority there.

It’s halfway through the European 'Decade of Roma Inclusion' but millions of euros in EU funding have failed to make a dent in Roma exclusion. 

For Assignment Nick Thorpe travels to Romania - home to an estimated two million Roma, 10% of the population - to find out why.

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