36. Urges all competent authorities to end the ethnic segregation of children (‘two schools under one roof’) which still exists in some cantons of the Federation; calls, furthermore, for the promotion of the effective inclusion of Roma children in particular in education, inter alia through school readiness programmes; calls on the authorities to collaborate with the relevant NGOs in order to encourage Roma families to support their children’s access to education; calls on the authorities to harmonise regulations within BiH in order to ensure that all children are treated equally; calls, in general, for more efforts to prevent family separation and more support se ...[+++]rvices for families at risk; calls on the Commission to examine whether targeted EU assistance could assist in ending the segregated education system;

40. Urges all competent authorities to end the ethnic segregation of children (‘two schools under one roof’) which still exists in some cantons of the Federation; calls, furthermore, for the promotion of the effective inclusion of Roma children in particular in education, inter alia through school readiness programmes; calls on the authorities to collaborate with the relevant NGOs in order to encourage Roma families to support their children’s access to education; calls on the authorities to harmonise regulations within BiH in order to ensure that all children are treated equally; calls, in general, for more efforts to prevent family separation and more support se ...[+++]rvices for families at risk; calls on the Commission to examine whether targeted EU assistance could assist in ending the segregated education system;

The debate on the directive on family unity is still continuing; it is therefore unreasonable to define what constitutes a family separately in each directive.

4. In this context stresses the importance of the confidence-building measures aimed at national reconciliation, including the reunification of families separated by the years of conflict and an improvement of security conditions across the whole country for the benefit of everyone; underlines particularly the importance of the measures concerning the freedom of movement of persons and all non-military goods, especially food and medicine, throughout the whole island;

The press, especially in the Azores and Massachusetts, has reported on the often dramatic implications of such expulsions, including an alarming suicide rate, family separations, people from highly urbanised environments, unable to speak Portuguese, being transferred to small rural communities in the Azores, bearing the shameful stigma of deportation, etc.

2. In cases where the separate family members enjoy temporary protection in different Member States, Member States shall reunite family members where they are satisfied that the family members fall under the description of paragraph 1(a), taking into account the wish of the said family members.