The Future of Europe’s Roma Communities

BBC World Service

Nick Thorpe visits one Roma settlement on the outskirts of Bucharest, Jilava, to try to find out for himself what it is that has hampered the economic development of this extraordinary ethnic group. And one of the world’s richest men, George Soros, tells us why he is spending hundreds of millions to try to improve their plight. And we also talk to him about his new book, in which he argues that in order for the European Union to weather the political storm that he believes lies ahead, Germany has to come up with the cash. But will it be willing to?

BBC World Service

Nick Thorpe visits one Roma settlement on the outskirts of Bucharest, Jilava, to try to find out for himself what it is that has hampered the economic development of this extraordinary ethnic group. And one of the world’s richest men, George Soros, tells us why he is spending hundreds of millions to try to improve their plight. And we also talk to him about his new book, in which he argues that in order for the European Union to weather the political storm that he believes lies ahead, Germany has to come up with the cash. But will it be willing to?

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