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BRI?CARIU Roxana FAMP

LAKE OF UTILITIES. ACCESS TO LOCAL UTILITIES OF ROMA CITIZENS COMPARATIVE WITH
NON-ROMA POPULATION CCASP

the Roma minority are starting from basic resources, like utilities, and furthermore continue with
improving education, health, employment and so on. Hopefully the next strategy for Roma integration
will take act in this direction and will provide basic recourse.
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”National Roma Integration Strategies 2015-2020” aim is to create a legitimate framework for
developing public policy for social integration of the Roma population, with principles of national strategy
such as: consensus, social utility, sectorial distribution, integration, reach the goals, mechanism,

technical measures, concrete actions. To reach these goals, the national strategy needs to implement
mechanism, technical measures and concrete action at local level to improve access of public utilities

(European Commission, 2014).

Roma communities through their unique diversity impose specific actions, and in order to answer to all
these challenges and needs, local level administration must find positive and practical mechanisms for

integrating Roma ethnics. Developing human resources in the public administration, both central and
local, developing the collaboration between institution can be a good start for the local authorities in
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