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World Service,07 Oct 2010,25 mins

Why Europe's Roma stay poor

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It’s halfway through the European 'Decade of Roma Inclusion' but millions of euros in EU funding have failed to make a dent in Roma exclusion. For Assignment Nick Thorpe travels to Romania - home to an estimated two million Roma, 10% of the population - to find out why.

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