French and Italian press have put the cannon on the Roma in Romania and the Bucharest authorities in Slovakia a Gypsy family was massacred by a psychopath, the extreme right in Hungary required Roma expelled from the cities. Although the problems are not new, the European Commission launched the first program aimed at Roma until April 2010. Spending billions of euros available to the states is more efficient than hard quantifiable lucrative projects. According to The Economist, the annual cost of the failure of integration of Roma is 5.7 billion. "If humanitarian arguments are not sufficient, perhaps the economic and demographic can have an effect," wrote the British magazine dedicated to the Roma in Europe's policies. Although officials in Brussels know that Romania and Bulgaria's EU accession in 2007, the Roma community will increase by about 40% of the EU, the European Commission announced, emphatically, until 2010, writing the first political program dedicated to the minority. Communication is about economic and social integration of Roma in Europe. In this document, it states that the legislative tools at its disposal are the directive on free movement of EU citizens and decision-discrimination directive to combat discrimination, racism and xenophobia, which is a very general law, the governments in Paris and Rome are easily gaps. If no specific legislation is like, the same can be said about the EU funds. Brussels provide the Member States of the European Social Fund (75 billion euros for 2007-2013). 12 states have announced specific measures to Roma for the ESF. France is not among them. Part of the new EU member states have invested in projects aimed at Roma 27% of these funds. Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Spain have earmarked 172 million euros for activities for Roma. Romania and Ungraia have allocated 50% of social funds have returned. In Ireland, the percentage was 99.5%. How effectively these funds are invested into each state authorities. It is for them to determine how the money European Commission just doing random checks. Always devoid of leaders Roma comuniăţile can not manage the funds themselves. In some Member States, few European funds are targeted to Roma. For example, the EQUAL initiative, implemented by 2008, Germany, Italy and France have invested only 1% of funding for dedicated action Roma. A European Commission document, drawn up during the current campaign in France securitare shows that Romania has earmarked over 20 times more money in Roma integration projects funded by the European Social Fund than it did in France (33 045. 853 euro to 1,476,400 euro).

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