"[Roma] are the largest minority on the continent and their situation is deplorable in terms of lack of respect for their human dignity, human well-being, being targeted for hate, exclusion, and shoved to the edges of our societies," European Council commissioner for human rights Michael O’Flaherty told EUobserver in an interview.
I dated a guy from Hungary that would go on and on about the “gypsies” and made racist jokes about them. It was quite uncomfortable.