ABSTRACT
Olga Lenczewska takes up a case of a Slovakian national of Roma origin against the government of Slovakia that appeared at the European Court of Human Rights and examines its implications for the rights of European citizens. Lenczewska puts the case in a wider context of racial discrimination in the EU and provides policy recommendations regarding both the Slovakian and the European policies toward the Roma minority. Finally, she emphasises that there is a great need to constantly check and control the compliance of national legal documents with international law, because legal gaps on the national level can result in unjust, yet technically legal court assessments.
