EU-Commission: Commissioner Reding speech: Statement on the latest developments on the Roma situation (pdf) "Over the past weeks, the European Commission has been following very closely the developments in France regarding the Roma. I personally
EU-Commission: Commissioner Reding speech: Statement on the latest developments on the Roma situation (pdf)
“Over the past weeks, the European Commission has been following very closely the developments in France regarding the Roma. I personally have been appalled by a situation which gave the impression that people are being removed from a Member State of the European Union just because they belong to a certain ethnic minority. This is a situation I had thought Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War.”
See also: EU set to take France to court over Roma policy (euobserver, link) and Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner: Do not stigmatise Roma (link).