The largest and oldest International Roma Organization - IRU in its strategy and plan has decided to promote the novelty of the spread of democracy and pluralism within the organization and beyond. At the suggestion of the Roma Council of London, Great Britain, Patrick Jones, Roger Lee, Khurram Khan, Verandra Rishi and others set out to lay the foundations for democracy and equality within the organization itself.

The team that developed the concept of ET were the members of IRU: Marja Eronen from Finland, Agush Demirovski from Switzerland, Khurram Khan from Pakistan, Rosita Grönfors and Ajten Berlafa from Sweden, Ramush Muarem from North Macedonia, Verandra Rishi from India, Arthur Quick from Russia, Radmila Nesic from Serbia, Halilovic Graciano from Italy, Maria Rubia from Spain and Nellie Marx from USA.

IT envisions and is aimed at taking a step towards building a recognizable mandate for the Roma nation, which will increase the legitimacy, responsibility and political influence of the Roma representation.

In addition to increasing the membership of the IRU, the policies of ET are also aimed nominitation and actions at the election commission - inside and outside.

Election Documents, Voters List: Local, National, and Global Voters List, Voter Register, Candidate Register, Special List of Candidates for President of the IRU, Vice Presidents, President of the Parliament of the IRU, Vice Presidents, Heads of Commissions, Secretary General, Treasurer and other important functions. Note: the IRU Cabinet will have 21 members.

At the same time, alternative action models will be implemented, such as: strategies, individual implementation or phased approach, complement implementation and one-time conversion.

If you want to see the functioning of the ET team, you can see it on the IRU website - https://iromaniunion.org/

The International Roma Union (IRU), during the pandemic with COVID 19, is making efforts to help Roma cope with the situation. One of the biggest problems is from an economic point of view. Otherwise, IRU has ECOSOC in the UN, and thus is directly involved in that segment of socio-economic status.

But according to the IRU, the UN's forecasts for the world economy for 2020 are not optimistic.

The United Nations estimates that the world economy will fall by 3.2 percent this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, most notably the Great Depression of the 1930s.

That means about 34.3 million people are likely to fall below the extreme poverty line, including Roma.

The UN predicts that an additional 130 million people could be in extreme poverty by 2030.

In order to avoid these black scenarios, the IRU and its Economic Commission will intensively look for alternatives in coordination with the UN and the joint offices in New York, Geneva and Vienna to mitigate the forecasts, and at the same time to take a set of measures and strategies. between the UN and the IRU, and to amortize this whole situation in the coming period.

It is well known that the situation with COVID 19 around the world is worrying and alarming. Here, including the Roma community as one of the most vulnerable communities in this pandemic. Italy is also known to face unprecedented disasters.

It is a sign and an alarm that the EU needs to be more actively involved in dealing with these situations, and especially related to the Roma. The IRU, as one of the largest international organizations in the world, through its membership makes efforts to alleviate or amortize this situation to some extent. But there are also people who, knowing the chaotic situation, may want some personal benefit and satisfaction for personal or group upliftment.

It is noticeable that social networks promote and carry out a wide-ranging campaign to raise funds by Marcelo Zuiniisi, who presents himself as the president of Associazione Nazione Rom from Italy. It is alarming that Zuiniisi himself has repeatedly involved the International Roma Union - IRU as an organization that stands behind his actions and is part of the IRU.

The IRU strongly condemns and denies all allegations made by Marcelo Zuiniisi and notes that he has never been a member or part of the IRU. The IRU also denies allegations that self-proclaimed IRU member Melissa Gunasen from N.Ireland, who is closely cooperating with Marcelo, has never been or is a member of the IRU before. At the same time, the IRU wants to deny its member and veteran from London, Grattan Puxon, that the IRU has formed its own Executive Committee that indirectly supports Marcelo's actions. In order for the public to be better acquainted with the IRU for this crisis, it has established its own Crisis Staff, which acts and cooperates with the European institutions and the MEP Livia Jaroka.

So that Executive Committee that emphasizes Gratan Pukson and works with Marcelo and Melissa has nothing to do with IRU or IRU activities, and wants and strongly rejects those arguments, so as not to create public confusion.

The same was emphasized by MEP Livia Jaroka herself, who emphasized that she cooperates only with Zoran Dimov and his IRU, and in no case with characters and profiles such as Marcelo, Melissa and the like.

On May 13, 2020, a debate took place on the web portal "Roma News" via live streaming with part of the Cabinet of the International Roma Union - IRU, which informed the public about the actions and plans when it comes to the Roma Nation anywhere in the world.

Guests at the Debate were: Zoran Dimov, President of the IRU, then the Vice Presidents of the IRU Rosita Gronforce from Sweden, Ajten Berafla from Denmark, the IRU Consultant from Finland Marja Eronen, the Russian representative of the IRU Angelika Orlova and the US Representatives from the IRU Sean Wiskarson and Marck Antony, Anatoly Butakov IRU representative from Mexico and Ramush Muarem from North Macedonia.

Occasionally, Stefano Kuzicov from Sweden and Rishi Verandra from India also joined.

During the debate, each of the representatives at the very beginning introduced themselves and explained their part of the activities in the IRU, and at the same time with which problems the Roma community in the countries where the IRU members come from is most noticeable.

At the same time, the President of the IRU Zoran Dimov explained that the IRU as an organization acts and sends recommendations, declarations, resolutions and other important documents on behalf of the IRU to a number of European and other international institutions. It is emphasized that the IRU is fighting institutionally to raise cooperation and perception to a higher level when it comes to the Roma community anywhere in the world.

During the debate, representatives of the IRU from several countries explained that the IRU is not a humanitarian organization or foundation that allocates funds for project activities, which misleads most people into thinking that the IRU is a kind of humanitarian organization.

The fact is that the IRU acts more from an institutional or political point of view, and is based on the preparation of plans and strategies, as well as a logistical framework for its implementation.

At the same time, it was explained that the IRU also works as a team, jointly where democratic law is preferred and in that direction a team of Equality - ET was created and formed, and that in the middle of the pandemic with KOVID 19 iru initiated and submitted a Resolution to the European Parliament. by taking action to protect the Roma community.

Summarizing the point of this debate, the IRU did its best to present in a short time only a small part of its efforts and activities, as well as some of the plans and strategies they create for their future action.

At the same time, the IRU sent an appeal to all who think well of the Roma community, regardless of which region they come from, to freely join the IRU and with their ideas or proposals, where many quality solutions can emerge, and therefore the IRU opens its doors to all progressive people.