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EU washes hands of French plans for Roma expulsions as tensions grow
Brussels, 30.7.2010, 11:11, (EUobserver) The European Commission on Thursday said it is up to member states to decide whether they expel Roma people, but only on an individual basis and respecting the principle of "proportionality", in reaction to France's announcement it will dismantle 300 Roma camps within three months.
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| Another attack on the Roma in Karviná, this time with an air rifle
Karviná, 1.4.2010, 21:09, (ROMEA) Earlier this week, four assailants shot an air rifle at Roma in the town of Karviná, hitting a nine-year-old girl in the thigh, her mother in the arm, and their neighbor, an ethnic Czech man, in the collarbone. The man was not meant to be a target of the attack but was hit accidentally when the Romani woman managed to evade one of the shots.
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| Czech and German NGOs plan to focus on the victims of violent hate crime
Prague, 6.11.2009, 11:11, (ROMEA) Several Czech and German NGOs involved in the “Hate Crime – Forgotten Victims” project plan to map the situation of victims of violent hate crime in the Czech Republic. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, NGO representatives told journalists there is a lack of statistics on the number of victims and the kinds of violence they encounter. Victims include not only the Roma, but foreigners, homosexuals and those involved in alternative cultures.
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| More than 600 people protest in Ústí nad Labem against neo-Nazis, children gassed in Lidice also "turn their backs" on them
Usti nad Labem, 16.4.2009, 15:03, (ROMEA) Opponents of the neo-Nazis held a concert today to protest a march being convened on Saturday by the Autonomous Nationalist movement in Ústí nad Labem. More than 600 people gathered on Mírové náměstí. The organizers planned the high point of the evening to be a performance by the band Pražský výběr, fronted by outgoing Czech Human Rights and Minorities Minister Michael Kocáb.
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| EU criticized at first European Roma summit
Brussels, 17.9.2008, 10:10, (AP) The European Union called Tuesday for a continentwide drive to improve the plight of millions of Gypsies, also called Roma, who face discrimination and poverty.
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Sweden calls on EU to act on Roma rights
Stockholm, 31.7.2010, 19:07, (The Swedish Wire)
Sweden's government Friday called for the European Commission to act on the rights of Europe's Roma community, saying their situation was "alarming".
full story | Sweden: Romani people are deported without legal reason
Stockholm, 31.7.2010, 19:07, (Stockholm News)
Sweden deports Romani people without proper legal reason. This claims former Liberal People’s Party (Sw: Folkpartiet) chairman Maria Leissner, now chairman for the government’s committee on Romani issues.
full story | ERPC urges EU Member States to stop stigmatizing Roma and Travellers after France’s announcement of repressive measures
Brussels, 31.7.2010, 19:07, (ROMEA)
1. The ERPC is deeply concerned by the measures announced by France on 28 July which collectively implicate French Travellers and migrant Roma. We are troubled that France’s reaction to a quite specific set of incidents is targeting and perpetuating negative stereotypes about Roma and Travellers in general. President Sarkozy’s populist, discriminatory discourse is making scandalous amalgams between Travellers, Roma immigrants, irregular migration and violent crimes. Moreover, it overlooks the incidents that happened in Saint-Aignan were sparked by the police killing of a young Roma man suspected of robbery who was in a car that ran a police roadblock.
full story | Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
Strasbourgh, 31.7.2010, 18:06, (ROMEA)
 As part of Roma Holocaust/Pharraimos Remembrance Day, one minute of silence will be observed on August 2, 2010 at 12 noon at the Holocaust memorial stone in front of the Palais de l’Europe, Council of Europe, in Strasbourg in memory of over 3,000 Roma exterminated during the night of 2-3 Aug 1944 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the German Nazis.
full story | France: Church defends Roma, Gitanes from repressive new laws
Paris, 29.7.2010, 21:09, (MISNA)
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s new laws toward the Gitanes and Roma (French Gypsy and Traveller) peoples have been criticized by the French Catholic Church.
full story | Bulgaria, Romania join French efforts against Roma offenders
Sofia/Bucharest/Paris, 29.7.2010, 21:09, (EXPATICA)
Bulgaria and Romania joined efforts with France on Thursday to find a solution to illegal Roma migration, following calls from Paris to close down migrant camps and expel offenders, which triggered protests by Roma rights activists.
full story | Sarkozy Speech Enrages Roma Leaders
Paris, 29.7.2010, 17:05, (Frenchtribune.com)
President Nicolas Sarkozy has invited trouble for himself after expelling an illegal Gypsy immigrant from France. This group was accused of creating disturbance, after a man was killed when he was trying to hide from the police.
full story | Romanian organisations condemn France's anti-Roma move
Bucharest, 29.7.2010, 17:05, (AFP)
Romanian rights groups on Thursday blasted France's decision to tear down Roma camps and expel Roma people who break the law, saying it was a "human rights violation."
full story | ERTF Reaction on recent events in France
Strasbourg, 29.7.2010, 16:04, (ROMEA)
By holding a last-minute meeting to look into “the problems created by the behaviour of some Travellers and Roma” as part of the “implacable struggle the government is leading against crime”, the Head of State has at a stroke reinforced stereotypes against this community in the general public’s minds. If the President has been kind enough to mention “some”, why would the eviction measures already announced be collective?
full story | Sarkozy under fire for taking aim at Roma
Paris, 29.7.2010, 14:02, (ROMEA/Euroactiv)
 The French left joined human rights groups and specialised organisations in criticising an anti-delinquency initiative launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday (28 July), which is specifically targeted at the Roma community.
full story | Neo-Nazi hackers vandalize web page of the Buchenwald memorial
Berlin, 29.7.2010, 07:07, (ROMEA)
Yesterday hackers broke in to the web page of the memorial to the site of the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany. They managed to remove the list of the camp’s victims (called the Book of the Dead), replacing it with neo-Nazi symbols and slogans. The hackers also erased pages about the former auxiliary camp of Dora-Mittelbau.
full story | Jarmila Balážová: Even Romani loan sharks won’t be taboo for us
Prague, 26.7.2010, 11:11, (Romano hangos)
 The full-color magazine Romano vodi (Romani Soul - RV) is published monthly as an adjunct to the Romea news server. Its founder, the main face of RV, is Jarmila Balážová. It’s probably carrying coals to Newcastle to mention that you can also hear this famous Romani journalist on the radio, see her moderate various public events, etc. We decided to stick our curious noses into those details of the Roma scene which there is usually no time to cover in the normal course of running a media outlet.
full story | Hindus critical of Romanian President’s remarks about Roma
Nevada/Bucharest, 25.7.2010, 14:02, (ROMEA)
Although social inclusion of Roma was urgently needed all over Europe, but Romania just should not bail herself out of responsibility of Roma integration at home, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed stated in Nevada (USA) today.
full story | Anger as Sarkozy Targets Roma in Crime Crackdown
Paris, 25.7.2010, 13:01, (Time)
 During his rise to and occupancy of the French presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy has regularly announced new law-and-order offensives in the hopes of stoking support among the majority of French voters who say they're scared of crime. Typically, those policies have taken aim at Sarkozy's preferred target: the banlieues, the troubled suburban housing projects that ring most French cities and are populated by a disproportionately high number of minorities.
full story | Guide to the rights of young Gypsies launched
Wales, 25.7.2010, 13:01, (WalesOnline)
A CHILDREN’S charity has launched an information booklet to help young Gipsy travellers in Wales understand their rights. The guide is aimed at 11 to 18-year-olds and presents young people with information such as the rights they have in education.
full story | Travelling towards a better understanding of gypsies
Edinburgh, 25.7.2010, 13:01, (Scotsman.com)
As hundreds of gypsies and travellers arrive in Edinburgh for a religious convention, Romany journalist Jake Bowers offers an insight into their often misunderstood world. Britain's 300,000 gypsies and travellers have lived, worked and travelled throughout Britain for over 500 years, yet we have been almost entirely written out of British history.
full story | V4 countries want to coordinate their approach to the EU and Roma integration
Budapest, 21.7.2010, 07:07, (ROMEA)
Today at a meeting of the Visegrád 4 group in Budapest, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia agreed to intensify their cooperation, primarily as it relates to the European Union. Slovak PM Iveta Radičová said V4 PMs will meet regularly prior to sessions of the Council of the EU. As of this month, Slovakia is chairing the V4 for the next year. In addition to a common approach toward the EU, the Slovak presidency has set its priorities as addressing the economic crisis, energy security, and unemployment. The V4 group has been in existence for 20 years.
full story | The newly-formed Czech government wages a war on welfare while state-run energy giant profits soar
Prague, 21.7.2010, 11:11, (ROMEA)
On Tuesday, Czech President Václav Klaus swore in the new conservative government, formed following the May Parliamentary elections, in which the left-wing Social Democrats won by a narrow margin, but center-right parties captured more votes overall. The right-wing coalition secured 118 of the Parliament’s 200 lower-chamber seats. All fifteen Minister posts will be held by men, a choice which has been criticized by political analysts and women’s rights groups alike. However, the Parliament now houses a record number of women, 22% of the MPs, and will be led by women. Ethnic minorities, who make up no more than 3 percent of the total population, on the other hand, have no representation in Parliament.
full story | The Romani Culture vs. Human Rights
USA, 20.7.2010, 22:10, (World Poverty and Human Rights Online)
Regardless of being one of the largest minority groups in Europe with approximately 10 to 12 million individuals, the lifestyle of the Romani people, Roma or “gypsies” as they are pejoratively known, remain quite unknown to the outside world.
full story | Roma organizations open consultation on trafficking
Budapest, 20.7.2010, 22:10, (tdh-childprotection.org)
The European Roma Rights Center, an international public interest law organisation working to combat anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma held on the 1st of July an informal consultation in Budapest on trafficking in human beings from a Roma perspective.
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