Marek Podlaha to head agency assisting Roma integration

Marek Podlaha, formerly head of an NGO assisting Romany employment, is to become head of a government agency aimed at fighting the exclusion of Romanies from society and the creation of Roma ghettoes. The agency is to start work in February and will be answerable directly to Džamila Stehlíková, the minister in charge of human rights and ethnic minorities.