Daily Archives: November 9, 2024

Again an article about the funds allocated to municipalities with a Roma population in Slovenia. The current way these subsidies are calculated favours large municipalities, regardless of the number of Roma who live there. Now the government plans to change that. And several mayors are not for it.

In any case, Roma complain that the funds are not spend on purpose, and the mayors say that the funds are not sufficient to move the needle …

• Denarja je precej, a kako ga porabiti? Občine so pri reševanju različno uspešne. In: Svet 24. 09.11.2024. https://svet24.si/clanek/novice/slovenija/672e77088d2e7/romska-problematika-denar-obcine-jugovzhodna-slovenija#google_vignette

In Slovenia, there are twenty-five municipalities with a registered Roma population, among them eleven in Dolenjsko, Posavje, Bela Krajina and the Kočevsko-Ribinška area. From 2021, based on Article 20a of the Municipal Financing Act (ZFO-1), they are entitled to additional state funds (3.5 percent of eligible spending), the main criterion being the number of all residents of the municipality. This means that the bigger the municipality, the more money it gets, regardless of the number of Roma. This is not fair for smaller municipalities with a large number of Roma.

Roma complain that the funds are not spend on purpose…

• DL: Romi pri nas: Denarja je precej, kaj početi z njim? In: Svet 24 Lokalno. 08.11.2024. https://lokalno.svet24.si/2024/11/08/295548/aktualno/dl_romi_pri_nas__denarja_je_precej__kaj_poceti_z_njim/