The Situation of Roma in an Enlarged European Union
Travellers experience obstruction because of opposition by local authorities when trying to purchase land, and, if successful, frequently experience difficulties in securing provision of water, electricity, waste removal and other publicly provided services. 85 . There is a danger that policies addressing nomadism may be applied to Romani communities regardless of whether they are nomadic or not. For
example, a joint ministerial decision of the Ministers for the Interior and of Health of Greece, entitled "Sanitary provision for the organised relocation of wandering nomads"96 and providing regulations on site provisions, has reportedly been used repeatedly to expel Roma from municipalities. Some Roma have even been criminally prosecuted for infringing the Sanitary Provision.97
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Systemic violations of the right to adequate housing for Roma is currently the subject of a collective complaint against Greece by the European Roma Rights Center before the European Committee of Social Rights under the European Social Charter.
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