Govt proposes courses as compensation to segregated children

The government has acknowledged the right of Roma children earlier segregated in a school in Gyongyospata, in northern Hungary, to compensation, a state secretary said on Friday, but added the over 60 children should be offered "education, rather than cash". Bence Retvari insisted that the children would benefit more from this form of compensation, and it would not harm "people's sense of justice". An apellate court in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, recently ruled that the municipality of Gyongyospata and the school authority should pay a total of 100 million forints (EUR 300,000) to the plaintiffs before January 17.