Category Archives: Hungary

Hungary, Roma, and Education

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Hungary, Roma, and Education

The situation of Roma students in Hungarian schools is critical: segregation is not decreasing, and only half a percent of them go to university. The Romaversitas foundation helps them progress from the 9th grade all the way to graduation. But fewer and fewer people apply to them. They try to equip their students with an activist approach and “talk them out” so that an intellectual Roma stratum with a strong ability to assert their interests can be formed.

Hungary and Lungo Drom

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Hungary and Lungo Drom

Roma politicians have initiated an investigation against the Lungo Drom association with the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Prosecutor. According to them, the activities of Lungo Drom’s President Flórián Farkas seriously endanger the legal operation of the association and the achievement of the goals set in the articles of association. As of 2017, Lungo Drom did not submit financial statements, and the last 2016 report available on the court’s website did not arrive until the fall of 2021.

Visegrad Roma Cooperation

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The Romani language is the first topic covered in a ten-part series of reports entitled Visegrad Romani Magazine. It is prepared jointly by three Roma television stations: Dikh TV from Hungary, TV Romana from Slovakia and ROMEA TV from the Czech Republic.

Really?

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Really?

Zsolt Bayer, author of racist and anti-Semitic remarks, is among the speakers at the event organized in Budapest by an American conservative group. He qualified Jews of “stinking excrements” and Roma of “animals.

So much for these conservative Americans …

Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

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Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

There is more and more talk about refugees from Ukraine who have Hungarian passports in addition to Ukrainian citizenship. Politicians talk about these refugees mainly in connection with the Roma fleeing the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The South Moravian Governor Jan Grolich from KDU-ČSL was the first to mention “Hungarian Ukrainians” without any knowledge and context and to to accuse them to abuse social benefits in the Czech Republic. The mayor of the capital city of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, also justifies the Hungarian citizenship not to register them.

As said, the Orban government granted many residents of Transcarpathian Ukraine the Hungarian cisitzenship.

Roma in Hungary

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Roma in Hungary

A reportage in Nyiregyhaza, in Eastern Hungary, in a day care centre in a Roma settlement. What the reportage omits to say here, is that these schools and day-care centres are de-facto segregated, as no non-Roma ever goes there. De facto, this perpetuates the segregation.

Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Republic

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Ukrainian Roma who also hold a Hungarian passport, of which there are quite a few as Orban gave the citizenship to anyone speaking Hungarian in the Ukraine, face difficulties in the Czech Republic: They are denied help and being told to go to Hungary.

Roma Refugees and Hungary

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Roma Refugees and Hungary

Some Romnja were prevented from leaving the Ukraine several times before being able to cross into Hungary.

Bad.

Hungarian Elections

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Hungarian Elections

A campaign is underway in Hungary to prevent vote buying among Roma, a practice that is quite common unfortunately. The Clean Vote campaign is trying to draw attention to electoral abuses, mostly in poor Roma settlements. “Unfortunately, thousands of people in Hungary are influenced in the exercise of their voting rights. This endangers the cleanliness of the elections, thus the democratic system of Hungary, ” they write on their website.

Their advice: “Even if you accept 5-10 thousand forints, no one can enter the booth with you” …

Ukrainian Refugees

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Ukrainian Refugees

Two articles in the French Press on refugees from the Ukraine. In Budapest and in Warsaw. In Budapest, Roma have been sent to a vagrant shelter, and in Warsaw, they struggle to find lodgings.

Hungary and Ukrainian Roma

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Hungary and Ukrainian Roma

A pastor in Tiszabecs, right at the Hungarian Ukrainian border, helped 150-200 Roma refugees from the Ukraine. He is not alone, as in the neighbouring village of Uszka, anothe pastor also helped (see other article).

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