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206 Renata Weinerová minority rights, although noting “a gap between policy formulation and implementation on the ground”21 and a lack of practical improvements in the daily life of minorities - notably Roma (Monitoring the EU Accession Process 2001: 431). At the same time, the activities of both Roma and non- Roma NGO’s have significantly expanded and they are getting closer to each other. As far as we know, these endeavours are more or less futile and especially in the environment of Slovak countryside they encounter the cultural/social limits of the local community. The cliché of development programs which are usually based on an idea that problems of Roma settlements have to be addressed inside the settlements themselves, separately from the “white” community, hampers the successful implementation of measures through the so-called ethnic emancipation of Roma settlers. The development programs which are founded exclusively on ethnic principles usually do not meet their purpose and are a reason for ethnic conflicts. The strategy of development programmes should be focused on a parallel citizen emancipation of ethnically different population components (Kužel 2000: 144). It seems that the co-existence of the Roma minority with the rest of the population in Slovakia has become a true challenge for the entire society. References Cahn C., Vermeersch P. (2000), The Group Expulsion of Slovak Roma by the Belgian Government: A Case Study of the Treatment of Roma Refugees in Western Countries’. In Cambridge Review of International Affairs vol. XIII/2: (spring/summer 2000). Guy W. (2001), ‘Romany identity and post-Communist policy'. In W. Guy (ed.), Between past and future (the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe). University of Hertfordshire Press (3-32). Klľmová I. (2000), Analysis of the current debate on the political aspects of Roma migration and asylum seeking. (Manuscript). Kužel S. (2000), Terénni výzkum integrace a segregace. Prague: Cargo Publishers.- (2002), ‘Dekolektivizace, neformálni ekonomika a etnická segregace “Rornú" na severovýchodním Slovensku’. Českýlid89, 2: 125-147.
