A Roma kid was born in Romania as slave until death (the Roma without a landlord was officially a slave of the Romanian state) just due to the colour of his skin, this curse was since the Roma migrated to Romania (13th century) until 1856 when Romanias elite decided to align to Europe Enlightenment trend of abolishing slavery.
After the slavery abolition the majority did not changed their view on Roma people treating them almost in the same lower rank modality, as a consequence during the 2nd War Holocaust in Romania were practiced extermination campaigns against Roma people.
During the communist times were no politics for Roma people neither for social inclusion, instead it were implemented several campaigns of forced quasi-assimilation (trying to radically change their life-style by forcing them to remain sedentary, to change their traditional jobs on industrial jobs, due to poverty a lot of kids were taken towards welfare houses/orphanages) which proved to be a failure.
Romania has shifted for democracy in 1989, the Roma continuing to be discriminated, a big part of them being uneducated, unqualified in a very poor country which was invaded by corrupted politicians with no strategy for their country (only for their pockets) although other former communist countries have succeeded a good transition (ex: Poland). After 1990s the chances for survival in Romania for unqualified Roma were minor ones therefore the poor Roma but also poor Romanians have left abroad in order to survive/ to earn money for their families. There are isolated cases (small % of Roma community) of Roma which have succeeded to integrate into the Romanian society, these admired cases are the result of their families wisdom and effort.
SUMMARY: The Roma people have been treated in slavery for almost 600 years, followed by persecutions and discriminations in the last 150 years. Hence the Roma actions that we notice today are the outcome of the efforts of European& Romanian politicians/authorities made in the last 25 years for including this minority into European/Romanian society- therefore the blame/the award for the Romaactions has to be granted to politicians not to the community (just like a kid in school which can win medals into contests if he has a good teacher and works hard; but without a good teacher the kid will never be able to cumulate know-how and develop its abilities), the Roma people are doing what they can with the instruments that were offered by the European/Romanian authorities in the last 25 years.
SOLUTION: The existing inclusion programs are no use, false promises inserted into governmental/political procedures, no detailed plan of action just ambiguous ideas repeated in precedent strategies (but no action).
Depends to how realistic will be the social inclusion programs (if the European& Romanian authorities really want to integrate the Roma people, on the other part Roma civil society will have to implement these politics through customized programs for each local community) if the next 20 years will be the same like the last 150 years or will be a bridge to a new era for Roma development. The actions that well perform today with the Roma kids will start to pay back in the next 15-20 years for the benefit of the European/Romanian society.