Greece’s Non-Implementation of International (Quasi-)Judicial Decisions on Roma Issues

Greece has one of the highest percentages of Roma in its population among European countries; Roma make up some 3-4% of the country’s total population. Half of them live in destitute settlements and are subjected to both racist attitudes by the general population and severe discrimination by authorities. This is well reported, not only by NGOs, but also in all reports on Greece from the United Nations and Council of Europe human rights bodies. Additionally, a series of (quasi-)judicial decisions regarding some aspects of that discrimination, namely racist police violence, inadequate housing and evictions and exclusion from or segregation in education have been ignored by Greek authorities.