Recommendations to the state:

• recognize the existence and scale of discrimination against and exclusion of Sinti and Roma in Germany, as reiterated in reports of various international bodies and human rights organizations
• find an acceptable way to generate ethnic data, e.g. on the basis of ECRI recommendations to conduct polls among members of the Sinti and Roma communities, without compromising relevant international rules on data protection, and cooperating with Sinti and Roma organizations in Germany that have reliable ethnic data
• assess real costs of discrimination and exclusion of Sinti and Roma in Germany (including but not limited to unemployment and welfare benefit expenditures, losses in tax and consumer spending revenues, social tensions, and so forth)
• take meaningful legislative and policy steps to stop, remedy and prevent discrimination, exclusion and racially-motivated crime
1. adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation at minimum meeting requirements of the Race Directive
2. introduce sentencing enhancement for racially motivated crime by both private and public parties
3. make recourse to justice and legal aid readily available for alleged victims
4. investigate in good faith incidents of discrimination and racially-motivated crime
• train all categories of public officials, civil servants, law enforcement personnel and others to apply anti-discrimination measures and refrain from discriminating, as recommended by international human rights bodies
• educate the majority on illegality of discrimination and exclusion even in private business transactions, such as access to employment, housing and other goods and services
• pass necessary constitutional amendments to legally guarantee specific minority rights of Sinti and Roma as a recognized German minority
• build trust of the minority in the state whose citizens they are
• include duly-elected minority representatives in decision-making that affects them in order to ensure policies and measures are going to be complied with and therefore effective
• involve Sinti and Roma individuals in concrete minority-orientated programs, which will help meet legal obligations of the state toward this minority, as well as produce synergistic effect of higher social participation, employment, and overall integration into society

Recommendations to Sinti and Roma organizations in Germany:

• elaborate basic common position vis-à-vis the state and assert it, to avoid external manipulating of disagreements and evading state responsibilities toward Sinti and Roma in Germany
• actively use international monitoring and lobbying mechanisms to bring widest attention to and address most burning issues faced by Sinti and Roma in Germany
• actively use domestic and international legal venues to vindicate alleged rights violations and bring widest publicity to instances of discrimination, exclusion and harassment against Sinti and Roma in Germany
• mobilize members of the Sinti and Roma communities to effectively lobby political structures in Germany for solving most burning issues faced by Sinti and Roma in Germany
• insist on participation in decision-making processes and minority-oriented programs affecting Sinti and Roma