"All the Roma professionals who were interviewed had great hand-on experience working with Roma at the grassroots level, and also in international institutions. Most of us had very little or no experience with sugar-coating failures, accepting and supporting poor decisions of senior management, promoting practices that waste huge amounts of money in useless meetings, huge consultancy fees, and irrelevant trainings. In other words… none of us had worked for the European Commission.
What message did I get out of this? That if I want a job as a
bureaucrat, the skills that matter are to have low energy, to accept
poor decisions made by others around me, to be able to present failures
as success, and to have a non-threatening personality. The glass ceiling
is concrete solid when it comes to Roma. Roma participation is indeed
very important as long as is done from a very safe distance."
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