Roma people are Europe’s largest ethnic minority but many of them are subjected to discrimination and social exclusion.
There are 12 million in Europe and around half that within the European Union.
Campaigners claim the continent's Roma communities have been "left behind" during the coronavirus pandemic.
Now they are calling for specific targets and measures in the EU's next seven-year budget to help address the problem.
"We do not want to see anymore Roma not having access to water, to basic services, food, medicines because we actually saw during the pandemic that Roma were those actually left behind," said Jamen Gabriela Hrabanova, director of the European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network.
The last Roma Integration Report from the European Commission painted a stark picture of the problem.
