12. Romas inclusion

All kids are on the starting line.
Those having the opportunity to go to school take a step forward.
Those being able to do sports take a step forward
Those having the chance to see a doctor for the first inflammation of the middle ear take a step forward
Those having come home safe from the discotheque after a party take a step forward.
After having crossed the finish line all the kids turn around, some of them ask themselves:
Who are these kids, still waiting at the starting line?
Yes, who are the adolescents in Europe, for whom precarity is part of everyday life and among whom the unemployment, illiteracy and mortality rate is at a record high?
For more than seven centuries, that is when they started emigrating from regions around India, the Roma have been the "untouchables of Europe" - and they still are.
If we want to understand the challenge the Roma constitute for Europe, we have to analyze their situation and their history. In addition to that, we also have to exactly define the European project - a step we also have to take for all the other minorities. That means for us that we have to come up with a new definition of the humanistic project for Europe.
Europe and the European Union now have the unique chance to achieve something just in those fields, in which we’ve failed much too often in the past.