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2022, 27 September
"It takes time, you need to be patient” was a recurrent sentence of the local stakeholders when asked about... more
2022, 12 September
Within the framework of the Joint European Commission and Council of Europe ROMACT Programme, the Council of Europe is... more
2022, 5 September
Read and find out more about ROMACT in our newly published leaflet available in English, Bulgarian, Hungarian and... more

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According to estimates of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, approximately 784,041 Romani people revised in Bulgaria in 2020 representing 11.7% of the Bulgarian population. National Institute of Statistics mentions in a 2021 report that 58.8% of the Roma ethnic group (self-declared) are at risk of poverty.  
 
In Bulgaria, ROMACT implementation started in the beginning of  2014.

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