Abstract The subject of the relationship between Roma and the State in post-communist Romania can be representative in order to measure the proximity and also the distance of the Romanian society from two major objectives: the democratization, in the 90s, and the Europeanization in the following decade – not only the integration in the EU structures, but also in a system of European values: democracy and rule of law, tolerance and social solidarity. The following two case studies are illustrative for the aforementioned periods. My analisys focuses in the first phase on the actions of Romanian representatives, and consecutively concerns the European dimension – what Romania, as a democratic and European state, did or should have done.

Keywords Roma; post-communist Romania; democratization; Europeanization; case studies; Hădăreni; Romulus Mailat ... Citește mai mult