"[Roma] are the largest minority on the continent and their situation is deplorable in terms of lack of respect for their human dignity, human well-being, being targeted for hate, exclusion, and shoved to the edges of our societies," European Council commissioner for human rights Michael O’Flaherty told EUobserver in an interview.
  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    When certain politicians inflate fears … that’s very frightening”

    Name and shame and bring to courts and make parties exclude those members. If the commissioner for human rights is helpless, it shows that we only pay lip services.

    “The EU has the Digital Services Act. It has the AI Act. These are two decent pieces of legislation. They’re good. They need to be enforced. And that’s where I would watch closely what the EU is doing to make sure that these instruments are promoted and enforced.”

    He added: “And [it’s important] that we challenge the disinformation about regulation. There’s this myth out there that it’s these instruments, and that type of regulation, that stifles innovation in Europe. There’s no evidence for that.”

    Seems like he is using the Roma to push the acceptance for those acts instead of using the acts to protect Roma.