The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which on Thursday condemned Hungary in a case of school discrimination against young Roma, asked Budapest to introduce policies that would “put an end to segregation in schools”, AFP and Agerpres reported.

“The Hungarian state must take measures to guarantee the development of policies aimed at ending social segregation,” the ECtHR said in a statement.

The ECtHR refers to Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

This article “applies to any judgment in which the Court has found a violation of the Convention.”

In 2015, a report by the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) called for such policies to combat discrimination in schools, calling, in particular, for “a permanent end to the practice of placing in schools mentally retarded Roma children who do not have a real flaw.”

The ECtHR’s appeal is part of a judgment condemning Budapest in the specific case of a Roma child who attended “a primary school attended almost exclusively by Roma children” and whose requests to be re-educated in a nearby institution were rejected.

Hungary will have to pay the plaintiff more than 11,500 euros in moral damages, legal costs and taxes.

Even the Supreme Court in Budapest three years ago recognized that the Hungarian state practices school segregation of Roma children, forcing Viktor Orbán’s government to pay compensation in connection with the school case in the north of the country.