"The Open Society Institute's European Union Accession Monitoring Program released its third comprehensive report of 2002, on minority protection in the 10 EU candidate states from Central and Eastern Europe. The report notes that although the accession process has prompted the adoption of official policies that seek to safeguard minority rights, implementation of the policies has been slow or nonexistent—at least partly because the measures do not enjoy significant public and political support in most candidate countries. The minorities that continue to face the most severe problems in the 10 states are Roma and Russian speakers." (Quoted from article)