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20/11/2008

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Gaulhofer, Karl,

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Die Presse - Austria | 17/09/2008

Europe's Roma

Not special treatment but equality for the Roma is the solution to the integration problem in Europe, writes Die Presse: "For the first time, Europe's largest minority is present at the EU table while their fate is being decided. And behold: the Roma don't want special settlements, but access to low-cost housing. They don't need employment schemes for unskilled workers, but well mixed school classes. Half of the Roma in Eastern Europe are under 20. Instead of using their potential we shunt them into special schools, although education is the sole means we have at our disposal. But for it to work effectively, the 'Europeans' would have to play along as well and allow their children to sit beside these urchins in class. If they did, it could well be that in two generations there would no longer be a problem the very naming of which gives us so much trouble."

Die Presse - Austria | 08/08/2008

The scourge of the homeless

Gianni Alemanno, former youth leader of the Italian neo-fascists and now mayor of Rome for the right-wing National Alliance, wants to implement draconic measures against the city's homeless. The daily Die Presse takes a dim view of the plans. "Now he has declared war on the old and the homeless who rummage around in rubbish bins for something to eat. The ludicrous justification: in their search for food they drop too much rubbish onto the street, which could cause infection. Social organisations responded that the mayor's ideas are themselves infected. But what of it? Eternal Rome has outlived Nero, the Vandals and the Borgias. Alemanno, the scourge of the homeless, will be no more than a footnote in history."

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