Comment The Decade of Roma Integration startedThe year 2005 started most intensely when it comes to the biggest minority in Europe – the Romas. On 2 February, on the initiative of their countries and organized by the World Bank and the Open Society Institute, the prime ministers of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania met officially at an international conference and signed the Declaration on the initiative “The Decade of Roma Integration”.