The purpose of this article is to analyze the legal protection of Roma minorities living in the member States of the European Union, with particular reference to the safeguard of Romani language and itinerant lifestyle. Roma are widespread in all Europe and their legal status may serve to test the degree of acceptance of the models of minority protection in a wide perspective. The investigation uses a so-called fuzzy approach at the comparative stage, which seems necessary to justify at methodological level the comparison of Roma groups. As this paper will try to show, the fuzzy logic is a relevant epistemological tool for comparative lawyers, in particular for taxonomic proposals.
