To convince Roma in Europe to take up the vaccine, governments need to take steps to build trust.
![A Roma activist carries food donation during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Miskolc, Hungary April 30, 2020. . [Bernadett Szabo/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2020-05-04T000000Z_54299070_RC2RHG96XJI4_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-HUNGARY-ROMA.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Zeljko Jovanovic is director of the Open Society Roma Initiatives Office. He is also a board chair of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture... and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and the ASPEN Institute.
To convince Roma in Europe to take up the vaccine, governments need to take steps to build trust.
![A Roma activist carries food donation during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Miskolc, Hungary April 30, 2020. . [Bernadett Szabo/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2020-05-04T000000Z_54299070_RC2RHG96XJI4_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-HUNGARY-ROMA.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Brussels needs to make sure its green policies include measures that counter economic discrimination against the Roma.
![Romanian youths hold balloons with small notes to be lifted up during the International Romani Day at Herastrau Park in Bucharest on April 8, 2015 [File: AFP/Daniel Mihailescu]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_DV2001767.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)