Monthly Archives: January 2022

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria and Roma

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The Bulgarian State tries to fight the misery of the Roma with strategies. Another one is currently being prepared. The goal is the integration of Roma.

According to the article, “It did not happen during the so-called Decade of Roma Inclusion, when billions of levs were spent. The money was allegedly “absorbed” by Roma foundations. They built palaces with them. Roma foundations sprout like mushrooms and there are over 600.”

This is bad.

Europe

EU and Roma

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The European Commission (EC) and the Council of Europe (CoE) are looking for 144 counselling service providers with specific expertise in inclusive education practices and policies for Roma children.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia Settlements

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A recent study has shown the abysmal differences of living conditions of Roma in Settlements in comparison to the rest of the population. The settlements need water, schools, and a minimum of infrastructure and services.

Germany News Western Europe

Hamburg and Holocaust

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The controversy on the Documentation Centre and the memorial of the Hannover Railway station is being solved. The Documentation Centre will have its own building.

The controversy arose as the initial location of the centre was in a building shared with a company who is linked to Nazis.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland and Roma

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A typical article on Roma. This time, they state “The world of the Roma, despite being so close to us, still appears to many Poles as a hermetic, closed world. Undoubtedly, Roma artists bring it closer to us.”  They thus manage a set of stereotypes in one go. It gets worse, as they also say that one of the most popular gypsy artists in Poland, Patrycja Runo was cursed by some of the Roma because she fell in love with a Pole.

No further comments …

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

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Martina Horňáková, author of a Romanes-Slovak phraseological dictionary, which received the Roma Spirit 2021 award for Act of the Year says “When you don’t know the difference between Gypsy and Roma, you have no idea that Romanes has its grammar, nice phrases, phraseology, riddles, spelling, short stories – you can’t be proud of your culture or language.”

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland and Roma

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Tourists in Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains can be attracted not only by the views, trails and fried oscypek cheese, but also by music. And it’s not the one performed by highlander bands. In recent days, a video recording the performance of Roma bands in Krupówki has become a hit on the Internet. However, the opinions of Internet users about this artistic attraction are divided.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria and Roma

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Four young Romnja are the winners in the initiative “Prosecutor for one day”. According to Vladimir Nikolov, District Prosecutor and Chairman of the Association of Prosecutors in Bulgaria, in cities where there are compact Roma communities, a program is being implemented for children who are interested in the activities of the prosecutor’s office.

“The participating cities are Sofia, Plovdiv, Pleven, Samokov and Gorna Oryahovitsa. Children from the relevant Roma communities apply through an essay describing how they envision the work of prosecutors, stating why they want to become prosecutors one day.”

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Roma Settlement in Slovenia

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Although the municipality of Škocjan does not officially have an autochthonous Roma minority and thus no Roma councillor, there are more Roma there every year. More than three hundred Roma already live in two settlements in Dobruška. This means that in a municipality with about 3,400 inhabitants, about ten percent of the Roma population already has. The school already has a fifth or 20 percent of schoolchildren are Roma children.

The settlements have water, and the municipality installed chemical toilets.

News Western Europe United Kingdom

UK – Manifestation

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A large manifestation is expected  in the UK today to protest against the new police laws. Among others, thee laws will criminalise trespass in a way that is aimed at Roma and Travellers.

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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More news this week on Roma, but again, mostly on Montpellier where a large Roma camp will be closed in March and replaced by a temporary camp. Future neighbours of this camp are vehemently protesting and the mayor of the commune where it will be located is saying that people will get killed.

Other news are more of the same. A camp re-opens in the South of France; a camp burns down near Paris; neighbours of a Roma camp near Paris convince the mayor to close a camp; and finally, one of the oldest insertion villages in France, in the northern town of Roubaix, closes.

News Western Europe United Kingdom

UK, the Law, and Travellers

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A legal case on final injunctions against illegal occupation of land, i.e. camping.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Litzmannstadt Ghetto

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An article on the deportation of Roma to the Łodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto. In September 1941, the Reich Central Statistical Office decided to deport 5,000 Roma from the Austro-Hungarian border to Poland, where they were imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt Ghetto).

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