Italy

Eugen Raportoru and his painting at the exhibition (2022 Venice Biennale) (PHOTO: ERIAC)
Zeljko Jovanovic: This year's success is just the beginning, Romani culture at the Venice Biennale transcends national borders
4.5.2022 17:45 full story
In an historical first, Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas represents Poland at the Venice Biennale with “Re-enchanting the World”
3.5.2022 15:41 full story
Coffin of Italian neo-Fascist is draped with the Nazi flag, causing a scandal
14.1.2022 15:06 full story
Italian Police raid ultra-right extremists, confiscate air-to-air missile from Qatar
20.7.2019 10:26 full story
videoItalian PM wants to deport Roma, MEP Romeo Franz calls his behavior racism and the shame of Europe
19.7.2019 15:19 full story
Pope stands up for Romani people attacked by (neo)Fascists in Rome who threatened rape
13.5.2019 8:53 full story
Italian theater cancels neo-Fascist concert co-opting Czechoslovak historical figure, so it moves from Verona to Lazis
18.1.2019 17:09 full story
Czech Embassy in Italy trying to prevent neo-Fascist co-optation of Czechoslovak historical figure Jan Palach there
16.1.2019 9:59 full story
Czech students protest co-optation of Czechoslovak historical figure in Italy
8.1.2019 11:25 full story
Italian neo-Nazis want to co-opt the legacy of Czechoslovak who set himself on fire to protest the '68 invasion
4.1.2019 15:53 full story
Italian Deputy Prime Minister says EU Justice Commissioner's critique of Italy's treatment of Roma is "nonsense"
31.10.2018 11:44 full story
Italian Deputy PM Salvini is behaving like a neo-Fascist, former Italian Labor Minister says
28.10.2018 13:43 Former Italian Labor Minister Elsa Forner, speaking in a recent radio interview, said the current Italian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is behaving like a neo-Fascist. Salvini, who heads the anti-immigration party Lega ("The League"), and wasted no time in responding bluntly. full story
Italy: Moroccan beaten to death, athlete of Nigerian origin attacked as fascists in the Govt spread racism
1.8.2018 11:29 Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the boss of the anti-immigrant Lega party, is facing criticism from opposition politicians for creating a hateful atmosphere in the country. In recent days Italy has witnessed a series of attacks with apparently racist motivations including Monday's attack on Daisy Osakue, an Italian athlete of Nigerian origin. full story
videoLIVE BROADCAST TODAY AT 16:00 in Prague: RomanoNet protests discrimination and racism against Roma in Europe, publishes manifesto Dost! Basta! Enough!
31.7.2018 13:53 Today at 16:00 a march will take place in Prague, Czech Republic to support the Roma of Ukraine. The event is part of a larger series of protests taking place in several European countries full story
LIVE BROADCAST: RomanoNet delivers protest manifesto to the Italian Embassy about Italy's racist measures against Roma
30.7.2018 13:52 Representatives of RomanoNet will deliver a protest manifesto to the Ambassador of Italy to the Czech Republic, Aldo Amati, very shortly. The organizations are protesting against the situation of Romani in Italy, where the Italian Interior Minister and leader of the ultra-right Lega group, Matteo Salvini, is demanding a census of Romani people and the application of racist policies against them.full story

Romania: 900 protest recent violence against Roma in Italy and Ukraine, more demonstrations in other European countries to follow
29.7.2018 13:34 As many as 900 people assembled on Saturday, 28 July 2018 in Bucharest, Romani in front of the Italian and Ukrainian embassies to express their disagreement with many violent anti-Romani crimes and to protest antigypsyism in Europe. The assemblies were the first in a series of protests that are being realized in nine European countries. full story
Italy: Romani infant hospitalized after being shot with pellet gun
21.7.2018 8:55 On 19 July Italian media reported that a pellet fired by an air gun struck a Romani baby as she was being held in her mothers arms. The child is now in intensive care in a hospital in Rome. full story
Italy: Court in Rome convicts four perpetrators of 2011 pogrom on Romani camp in Turin
20.7.2018 9:45 The ANSA wire service reported last week that a court in Rome, Italy found four people guilty of ethnic and racial hatred when they set fire to a Romani camp in the Vallette suburb of Turin in 2011. The appeals court in Turnin had upheld the first-instance conviction but reduced the sentences to between two and four years in prison, according to court sources. full story
Italy asks Czech Republic to receive asylum-seekers, Czech PM refuses
16.7.2018 10:13 Responding to a question from the Czech News Agency (ČTK) about the current Italian request for aid with refugees arriving on Italian territory, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said the Czech Republic will not be accepting any migrants and that he is insisting the reception of migrants be governed by the principle of voluntary action by the EU Member States. Italian PM Giuseppe Conte has asked the EU Member States for aid with redistributing 450 such people who recently ended up lost at sea. full story