A series of events dedicated to promoting intercultural dialogue and finding sustainable solutions for the educational and social inclusion of the Roma community will be organized as part of the “Roma Week” initiative. It was launched by the Ministry of Education and Research in the context of International Roma Day, celebrated annually on April 8.
A recent survey on attitudes of Ukrainians towards others. Well Roma are behind afrticans, and barely before Byelorussians and Russians living in their respective countries.
Bad.
A program about the traditions and customs of the Roma, their cultural achievements, literature, theater and other artistic fields.
Next Sunday’s elections are critical for Orban. And vote buying or at least influencing is ripe.
A “special operation” by the Bulgarian police in Tasrevo in a Roma neighbourhood resulted in several compl,aints being lodged against the police for viloences. The mayor of the town, Marin Kirov, reacted:
“My position as mayor and citizen of Tsarevo municipality regarding the actions this morning on our territory: It is a pity, we are receiving data about violence against people sleeping in their beds during the action this morning.
That’s right – they are neither running nor hiding, they are sleeping in their beds. They say they were gypsies, excuse me, it’s 2026 and we are in one of the few municipalities with an integrated Roma ethnic group and without significant crime related to gypsies. These are people, for God’s sake!? Nothing was found in them, nothing related to the elections.
We are obviously talking about excessive force and inadequate repression and an operation, planned and implemented in an absolutely insane way, and in Tsarevo – a modern tourist municipality, we depend on this livelihood, on a good image, on the peace between people. We also fully support the local police from tourism with cars, fuel, drug test cassettes and a huge resource for seconded police officers and repairs. And not only the local police, but also regional units of the services.
What are they achieving with these actions? Dozens of jeeps, over 50 berets and uniforms for a few sleeping people from the gypsy ethnic group? For years, they have been working on old signals against the same people who have never been caught or convicted of election crimes.
Are they trying to rewrite the election result? Be patient, they will see in two weeks, Tsarevo is developing and people appreciate it!
The Roma vote is not decisive here, and this aggression is inadequate and will have its own civil resistance in the elections.
Attempts to suggest that a small group determines the agenda and the election result are not based on facts in reality.
Take a walk in Tsarevo – here we earn trust with enormous effort and a lot of work!”
The usual reporting about Roma in Ialy. A police action arresting 8 people in Sarzana, next to la Spezia for burglaries and other offences.
Bad for all.
An article lin the Italian press about Roma. Roma, a European people of Indian origin, have a vibrant and complex culture. Their historical mobility is not “innate” but arises from expulsions, conflicts, and marginalization. The term “Gypsy” carries stereotypes and stigma, obscuring their identity and history.
They highlight a book “The Roma Journeys” by Joakim Eskildsen.
On Saturday 28th March, an estimated 1000 supporters of Mi Hazánk Mozgalom (Our Homeland Movement), and members of its affiliate paramilitary groups marched in the village of Kálló, in what the party’s chairman László Toroczkai billed as a ‘pro-order’ demonstration.
They had already done so on March 13th, but were prevented by the villagers. Now they were protected by the police.
And in another fact, the Minister of Construction and Transport, Kjanos Lázár, held a forum in Úrhida, Fejér County, where his usual arguments about protecting sovereignty eventually led to the conclusion that Fidesz should cooperate with Mi Hazánk in this regard.
Bad.
An interview of Janush Panchenko wo tells what it was like when Russia invaded Ukraine and what it was like when he decided to leave Ukraine.
The Chairman of the National Assembly of the BSP Krum Zarkov met with residents of the Roma quarter “Komluka“ in Sliven. Dozens of questions, remarks from the field and the active participation of people turned the conversation into an open and tense dialogue on the real problems of the community.
The Council of Europe launched the “Opre Roma” month. It celebrates the contribution to Roma, the culture, history and language to Europe.
President Petr Pavel and Eva Pavlová will receive Roma community leaders at Prague Castle on the occasion of International Roma Day. According to information from the Romea.cz server, a total of 20 Roma men and women are expected to attend. Almost half of them are graduates of the educational program Supporting the Social Inclusion of Roma through Community Development and Entrepreneurship, which was implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. The three-year program involved 80 participants from 11 regions of the Czech Republic. The names of the specific participants have not yet been published.
The Regional Court in Ostrava has sentenced a group of three men and one woman, who according to the indictment were led by 23-year-old Enrico Pešta, known as the Roma rapper Hard Rico. He was sentenced to four years in prison for robbery and extortion and must pay two million crowns. Two other defendants were sentenced to five years in prison, and Hard Rico’s former girlfriend was sentenced to three years in prison.
The Roma Foundation for Europe, headquartered in Brussels, is part of the Soros Foundations for an Open Society and implements various programs across Europe in support of the Roma community – it supports children and young people in education and extracurricular activities, young families in self-employment and job creation, protects Roma communities from abuse for political purposes and encourages political activation, and also invests in the preservation and development of Roma culture and language. It has not been present in Slovenia so far because it seemed that there was no need for it – because Slovenia is a sufficiently developed country with a small enough Roma population to be able to solve the problems on its own. Jovanović says today that this opinion was clearly erroneous.
Berlin, Nurenberg, and Munich will hoist the Roma flag on their city halls.
Students from the Veliko Tarnovo region will celebrate International Roma Day – April 8. The event in the old capital will be held on April 3 /Friday/ at 2:00 p.m. at the Petko R. Slaveykov Regional Library. The main highlight of the program is the presentation of the book “The House of the White Swan” by the Roma writer, teacher and educational mediator Atanas Atanasov – Vakavliyata. Guests will have the opportunity to meet the author and get acquainted with his work, dedicated to the life, identity and values of the Roma community.
The Dobrich Municipality (Bulgaria) reported on progress in the integration of Roma communities. During the meeting, the results achieved from the implementation of the ROMACT approach were presented, as well as the main challenges faced by the municipality in the integration process.
$5,000 was the initial minimum contribution for the victims to join the powerful fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme that was broken up by the “Economic Police”. The scheme targeted minorities and was run by a 48-years old Rom from Plovdiv.
Police raided a financial house (sic.) in the Roma neighbourhood of Fakulteta in Sofia, where a list of names and amounts was found besides six thousand Euros in cash. The police is suspecting election bribery and arrested several persons among which Kiril Kirilov, a know murky figure often called the Japanese.
Věra Bílá, who was born on May 22, 1954 in Rokycany as one of Karol Gini’s six children, was a phenomenon of Romani music at the turn of the millennium. She sang for Bill Clinton at the White House, filled the Paris Olympia and was on her way to becoming the most famous Czech singer in the world. However, her career was later affected by the deaths of her husband, son and gambling. In March, we commemorate the seven-year anniversary of her death.
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