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uthern Slovenia and Roma

January 31, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

Representatives of the Association of Municipalities of Slovenia (SOS) met today in Ribnica at a regional meeting of municipalities of southeastern Slovenia. In the discussion, they highlighted primarily the social challenges in the region (read Roma integration) and the need for additional financing of municipalities from the aforementioned topic due to regional characteristics.

Med večjimi izzivi regije integracija Romov in visoki stroški zimske službe. In: Radio Odeon. 30.01.2025.https://radio-odeon.com/novice/med-vecjimi-izzivi-regije-integracija-romov-in-visoki-stroske-zimske-sluzbe/

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Slovenia: “Incident”

January 31, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

Another article on the case of a social worker who was apparently attacked by a group of Roma and was sentenced to a fine of 250 Euros for having qualified a Roma as a “Monkey”.

Andrej Brečko from Mihovice near Šentjernej said “After 11 years of volunteer work in the village community and in a local initiative to solve the Roma problem, which the state should have solved long ago, I have now even received a fine for violating public order and peace – even though I was the victim of an attack by a group of Roma. “Now in the eyes of the police, I am the violator”.

Well, treating people of being monkeys casts a doubt about his view on Roma …

Romski incident na Dolenjskem: Očital mu je, da je ‘majmun’, in dobil 250 evrov kazni. In: Slovensko Novice. 29.01.2025. https://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/napadla-ga-je-skupina-romov-potem-pa-je-moral-placati-kazen-na-naju-so-zaceli-kricati-naju-zmerjati-metati-zemljo-in-kamenje/#google_vignette

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Alice Weidel

January 31, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

At first glance, there is nothing to suggest that Alice Weidel, the official AfD candidate once wrote an email in which she said, among other things: “These pigs [the German government under Angela Merkel] are nothing more than puppets of the victorious powers of World War II and their job is to keep the German people down (…).” Or that she described Sinti, Roma and Arabs as “culturally alien peoples” who “are inundating us”.

Well, we knew where we stand.

AfD-Parteichefin Alice Weidel: Die perfekte rechte Kanzlerkandidatin. In: Stern. 29.01.2025. https://www.stern.de/politik/alice-weidel–die-perfekte-kanzlerkandidatin-der-afd-35409240.html