ABSTRACT
There is clearly a pressing, general, and widespread ‘Roma question’ in Europe. Policy recommendations have flourished over the past ten years, as have resolutions, international conferences, European research funds, specific provisions and amendments in binding European conventions and laws, numerous reports, policy briefs, claims, and cases at the European Court of Human Rights, as well as specific texts such as the European Roma and Travellers Forum Charter on the Rights of the Roma 1 and the Frame-Statute of the Romani People in European Union. 2 The European institutions are conceptually comfortable with a ‘Roma’ category; this category is generally recognized as the largest European minority, supposed to include 12 to 15 million people.
