Magazine / Society / Roma in Europe / From the press | 02/10/2007

A Discriminated Minority

Most European Roma live in the countries of Eastern Europe, where they have drawn little benefit from the collapse of communism. They live in ghettos, their children receive very little schooling and they experience discrimination in everyday life.

Opinions

Gazeta Wyborcza - Poland | Saturday, 13. January 2007

Discrimination against Sinti and Roma

In many eastern European states, citizens of Sinti and Roma origin suffer discrimination, despite the fact that they are living within the EU, says the ... » more

Népszabadság - Hungary | Thursday, 11. January 2007

The European far-right is getting organised

"The new parliamentary party will bring more money and publicity to right-extremist parties, but hardly any more political influence," concludes Brussels correspondent László Szőcs. "Aside ... » more

Tribune de Genève - Switzerland | Thursday, 31. August 2006

The Roms, an authentic globalised population

The journalist Antoine Maurice ponders the history of Romany people and their way of life. "Their way of life reposes on a highly structured clannish ... » more

Magyar Hírlap - Hungary | Tuesday, 20. December 2005

The First European Roma Organisation

The ten million Roma living in Europe constitute one of its largest minorities. Founded last year, the ERTF (European Roma and Travellers Forum) has held ... » more

Roma Culture and Art

Népszabadság - Hungary | Wednesday, 8. August 2007

A Roma pavillion at the Venice Biennial

At this year's Venice Biennial for the first time there's a pavilion dedicated to the art of a minority - the Roma, who live in ... » more

Magyar Narancs - Hungary | Friday, 23. February 2007

Ferenc Snétberger on the music of the Roma

Ferenc Snétberger comes from a Roma family and is now one of the world's best-known jazz guitarists, performing with stars like Al di Meola and ... » more

La Stampa - Italy | Saturday, 4. August 2007

Goran Brejovic and gypsies' thirst for freedom

In an interview with Ketty Aredia, the composer Goran Bregovic, who has just given several concerts in Italy with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, discusses ... » more

Woxx - Luxembourg | Friday, 30. March 2007

Debate around exhibition on travelling people in Luxembourg

The exhibition 'Watch out Gypsies! History of a misunderstanding' at the museum of history in Luxembourg aims to denounce prejudices against this people. However it ... » more

Le Temps - Switzerland | Tuesday, 18. July 2006

Eastern Europe in the spotlight at Paleo Festival

As the Paleo World Music Festival gets underway, Arnaud Robert takes a look at the Romanian group Taraf de Haïdouks ('orchestra of viceless bandits'), which ... » more

Bulgaria

Dnevnik - Bulgaria | Friday, 24. August 2007

Racist outbursts in Europe

Bulgaria is currently debating how to deal with its Roma minority. Last week, after skinheads attacked a group of Roma, a group of Roma attacked ... » more

Polityka - Poland | Wednesday, 8. November 2006

The radicalisation of minorities in Bulgaria

The newspaper's correspondent in Bulgaria examines the situation of the Roma and the Turkish minority in Bulgaria: "Criminality among the Roma is increasing and people ... » more

Der Standard - Austria | Tuesday, 8. August 2006

Roma in Bulgaria

According to official figures, 370,000 Roma currently live in Bulgaria – 90 percent of whom live on state benefits, receiving 75 euros a month per ... » more

Romania

Cotidianul - Romania | Tuesday, 21. August 2007

The fate of the Roma children in Livorno

Four children of Roma origin died on August 11 in a fire at a camp based near the Italian port of Livorno. The Romanian press ... » more

Cotidianul - Romania | Thursday, 24. May 2007

The Romanian president gets abusive

Romania's President Traian Basescu has referred to a female journalist as a "stinking gypsy". She recorded the president's remark on her cell phone while he ... » more

Italy

La Stampa - Italy | Tuesday, 14. August 2007

The West has failed to prevent anti-gypsy feeling

The debate goes on in Italy after a fire that caused the deaths of four children last week. Mario Marazzati, the Sant'Egido community's spokesperson, considers ... » more

La Repubblica - Italy | Monday, 13. August 2007

The Roma, Europe's new scapegoats

The journalist Gad Lerner ponders the situation of the Roma in Italy. "The Roma are not 'politically correct': their high level of alcohol consumption, their ... » more

Hungary

Beszélő - Hungary | Thursday, 1. June 2006

Janos Barsony on prejudices against the Roma

According to sociologist Janos Barsony, the Hungarian majority of the population in Hungary is very prejudiced against the country's Roma minority, and although Hungary never ... » more

Népszabadság - Hungary | Tuesday, 7. February 2006

Roma children at schools in Hungary

A few days ago, opposition leader Viktor Orban said in a speech that he understood parents who didn't want to send their children to schools ... » more

Kosovo

Der Standard - Austria | Thursday, 22. February 2007

Kosovo and its minorities

Stephan Müller, former advisor on minority affairs for the OSCE mission in Kosovo, draws attention to the precarious situation of minorities in Kosovo: "Up to ... » more

The Czech Republic

Hospodářské noviny - Czech Republic | Wednesday, 20. December 2006

The discussion about how to treat Roma in the Czech Republic

The Czech nation is discussing whether Jiří Čunek, mayor of the town of Vsetín, was guilty of racial discrimination when he had a Roma family ... » more

Culture et art roms

Hospodářské noviny - Czech Republic | Thursday, 7. September 2006

The ghettoisation of the Roma in the Czech Republic

One third of the Roma in the Czech Republic live in closed ghettos, according to a study by the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social ... » more

Mladá fronta DNES - Czech Republic | Monday, 10. April 2006

Discrimination against Roma in the Czech Republic

This weekend, customers at a mall in Prague experienced what Roma gypsies often suffer in the Czech Republic: discrimination. "All those visiting one store," Lucie ... » more

Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | Wednesday, 29. March 2006

Discrimination against the Roma in the Czech Republic

The newspaper notes that the more than 300,000 Roma living in the Czech Republic will have no representation in the new Czech parliament to be ... » more

Kulturní týdeník A2 - Czech Republic | Thursday, 2. February 2006

The Media and Right-Wing Extremism

On the site of a former concentration camp for Roma in southern Bohemia, which was administrated by the Czechs during Nazi times, an obscure ultra ... » more

Právo - Czech Republic | Friday, 13. January 2006

Denial of National Socialist Persecution of Roma

A nationalist group is planning to erect a special kind of memorial stone on the site of a Nazi concentration camp for Roma in south ... » more

Slovenia

Dnevnik - Slovenia | Friday, 24. November 2006

Slovenian law for the protection of the Roma

"It comes a little too late," Samo Trtnik comments on the new law for protection of Roma as an ethnic minority proposed by the Slovenian ... » more

Dnevnik - Slovenia | Thursday, 23. November 2006

The row about the resettlement of Roma

At the end of October, the Slovenian government resettled a family of 35 Roma after residents of the east Slovenian town of Amrus attempted to ... » more

Večer - Slovenia | Thursday, 5. January 2006

Roma in School

In a primary school in the Slovenian town of Novo Mesto, Roma children are now being taught separately from the other children in maths, Slovenian ... » more

Switzerland

Tribune de Genève - Switzerland | Friday, 3. November 2006

How the traveller community is treated in Switzerland

The editorialist Jean-Noël Cuénod deplores the way the traveller community is treated in numerous Swiss districts. "Systematically, the creation of parking areas and camp sites ... » more

Estonia

SL Õhtuleht - Estonia | Wednesday, 22. February 2006

EU report on Estonia

In its report on the situation of minorities in Estonia, the European Commission did not criticise the treatment of Russians living in the country, as ... » more

Latvia

Delfi - Latvia | Wednesday, 25. January 2006

15 Years after the "Barricade Days"

Fifteen years have passed since the "Barricade Days" during which Latvia's roads and bridges were prepared to fend off a Soviet invasion following the country's ... » more

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