Monthly Archives: December 2023

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria and Health Care

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More than 200 Roma in Sliven and Tvardishko participated in talks about the benefits of preventive health examinations, the National Patient Organization reported. The campaign was carried out together with the association “Zhadda za život” under the project “Active citizens for local and national reforms in health care”. The target of the explanatory campaign are patients without health insurance and those with limited access to health care, to whom the importance of immunizations, healthy nutrition and raising children was explained.

Kosovo News Eastern Europe

Kosovo, Schengen, and Roma

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The liberalisation of Schengen visas for Kosovo residents is a huge ray of hope for Roma in that country. However, there are quite a few Roma who have no identity papers in Kosovo.

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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Not much of the usual camp closure and petty criminality this week, which is good. An article about a new dictionnary on Roma, an exhibition on Roma ghettoes in France, and an article about online racism.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia, Roma, and Fashion

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The former and fourth president of the Slovak Republic, Andrej Kiska, presented a fashion brand in Bratislava that changes the lives of Roma. The unique ROMADE project was created with the aim of systematically helping people from Roma communities in Slovakia. It provides them with permanent employment, regular income and professional advice. The ROMADE fashion brand is represented by original collections that were created by combining Roma culture, the talent of Slovak designers and the work of Roma.

News Western Europe Spain

Barcelona and Roma

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A route through Barcelona is quite different from the ones that take place in the city centre and which aim to show the beautiful side of Barcelona. Organized by EMIC Maridadges Culturals and the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA), in the framework of Anthropology Week, it is called La ciutat dels oblidats. It is led by the historian Montse Solé and wants to show the city that is often not explained. In other words, visit the places where mainly the Roma population settled, and which were on the outskirts of Barcelona.

Germany News Western Europe

Bayreuth and Roma

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The newly created memorial for Sinti and Roma at the Protestant city cemetery in Bayreuth was inaugurated. For Bayreuth regional bishop Dorothea Greiner, it is important to come to terms with history.

Europe Germany News Western Europe

Tajsa Award

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, a Polish-Romani artist, has won the prestigious Tajsa Prize Cultural Heritage Prize 2023 for her significant contribution to Roma cultural heritage. The award ceremony took place on 30 November at Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater and was organized by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia and the Roma “Problem”

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Another article on the Roma “Problem” in Slovenia in the regions of Dolenjci, Belokranjci, and Posavci. The situation is difficult, but to write what is in the article is not exactly helpful. The article says:

“The majority of Roma are uneducated and consequently unemployed. Roma settlements, most of which grew up on foreign land, with “black” houses, became ghettos, and it is difficult to talk about any kind of socialization. The main source of livelihood for the majority is social transfers, which depend on the size of the family – more children, more money. But what if many spend it on alcohol, drugs and weapons, and crime and threats to people’s safety are also connected to this.”

So in brief, we are all uneducated unemployed social security abusers with many children who are alcoholics and drug addicts… How about a sanity check about those statements?

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