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TikTok and Greek Roma

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TikTok and Greek Roma

An article about Roma who publish on TikTok, with a huge success and millions of views. But behind this, the reality is different and stereotypes are prevalent in Greece.

The article says: On the Greek social network TikTok, catchy Gypsy songs, kitschy weddings, and passionate dancing all night long have gone viral. Stef Tony, a Roma artist from Menidi, a suburb of Athens, performs in the middle of Roma camps or promotes singers from his community. Musician Stathis Xenos is a hit on the network with his song “Eimai Roma. Mia tzigana mou exei parei ta miala” (“I am Roma. A Gypsy woman made me crazy with love”), which has been taken up by thousands of users.

France News Western Europe

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More news this week. The question of the relocation of the inhabitants of one of the largest Roma settlement in France near Nantes, is still open. In a small commune in Britanny, the mayor and the village is involved in finding decent lodging solutions for the Roma living in a camp there. In the South, the new prefect of the region is multiplying expulsions of Roma. The story of a student who was attacked by Roma in Grenoble to steal his mobile. The main perpetrator apparently fled France to Romania. Finally, the movie “A Bras Ouverts”, heavily criticised and rightly so for its pandering of racist stereotypes is apparently having a huge success on Netflix in France.

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Georges Soros and Roma

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Georges Soros and Roma

Georges Soros was awarded the European Civil Prize for his work for Roma.

Well done.

His son Alex Soros received the prize onhis behalf at a ceremony in Berlin.

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Not much this week in French news about Roma. An Arte Documentary on stereotypes; on the Jubilee in Roma for Roma; and one article about a declaration of a new organisation of a Romano state without land.

Europe Italy News Western Europe

Roma Jubilee in Rome

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Roma Jubilee in Rome

Many articles about the Jubilee of Sinti, Roma, and Travellers in Rome.

Italy News Western Europe

Rome and Roma

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Rome and Roma

On the occasion of the Great World Jubilee of Roma and Sinti, scheduled for October 18, 2025, a musical event will be held in the morning of the Paul VI Hall (Nervi Hall) in the Vatican: a concert in honour of Pope Leo XIV. The chosen soloists for the performance are Abruzzo musicians Gennaro Spinelli (solo violin) and Santino Spinelli (solo accordion), accompanied by the European Peace Orchestra (including: Marco Bartolini, first violin; Rebecca Covaciu, second violin; Marco Ciaffarini, viola; Giulia Spinelli, cello; Gualtiero Lamagna, guitar; Evedise Spinelli, harp; Federico Binetti, percussion; and Roxana Ene, vocals). The event, broadcast worldwide, will feature Roma and Sinti people from around the world.

Germany News Western Europe

Razzia in Germany

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Razzia in Germany

The job center, police, and press descend on a hotel occupied by Roma in a low-income accommodation in Schöneberg on Tuesday morning. Employees of the Berlin job center arrived unannounced at the “BB Hotel Berlin” on Fuggerstraße at 6 a.m. with a contingent of 21 police officers. The Tagesspiegel newspaper was also there to photograph the action and subsequently report on the “notorious Roma accommodation.”

Critics speak of antigypsyism and media incitement.

Austria News Western Europe

Poverty Migrants

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Poverty Migrants

A study on poverty driven migration examines the topic of poverty migration from a sociological perspective in order to understand the situation of those affected from a scientific perspective. ITts focus is on the everyday lives of those in need and how they deal with potential stigmatization. Using key question-based interviews with Slovak and Romanian citizens, the living conditions of those in need were examined. The results show that those in need lack vital basic necessities in their countries of origin, which is why commuter migration to Western Europe is the only option.

Netherlands News Western Europe

Romanistan

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Romanistan

In “Romanistan,” three young artists explore what it means to be Roma. At the same time, it’s a plea to view history not simply as a past, but as a living and present story, residing in the bodies of the new generation searching for a right to exist and recognition without having to hide or deny their identity.

The play will be presented in De Lindenberg in Nijmegen on Sunday, October 19.

France News Western Europe

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Almost nothing about Roma in France this past week. An article about Roma families who were evicted twice within 6 months, and a fire in a camp near Nantes, in Westen France.

Italy News Western Europe

Jubilee in Rome

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Jubilee in Rome

The Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, will be celebrated on Saturday, October 18th with a major event scheduled in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. 3’5000 people are expected.

On Saturday, October 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., a meeting with Pope Leo XIV will be held. According to the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, the meeting will “profess the profound faith of the Roma, and Sinti, but it will also be an opportunity to celebrate a people, their living culture, and to honour their memory.”

Italy News Western Europe

Dolores Dori

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Dolores Dori

Dolores Dori, a 44 year old Sintica/Romni who was killed in a feud in Lonato del Garda, Brescia is the subject of numerous articles in the Italian press. He mother and her son were apparently arrested. At the core of the story is the daughter who eloped with a boy from the Roma camp in which Dolores was killed.

Italy News Western Europe

Italy: Feud

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Italy: Feud

A feud between Roma resulted in the killing of a 44 year old woman. According to the latest reports, she arrived to collect her daughter, who had moved to the camp against her parents’ wishes. The woman is said to have been having an affair with a boy from the camp, but, according to Brescia Today, she has already been promised in marriage to another man.

She was later shot and wounded and died in a hospital where she was found at the entrance of the emergency room.

Bad.

Greece News Western Europe

Greece, Police, and Roma

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Greece, Police, and Roma

With 24-hour patrols by the Greek Police in Roma camps and the announcement of the recruitment of 50 gypsy police officers, the Ministry of Citizen Protection is attempting to present a new policing and mediation plan. It started all with a claim that effectively, Roma are basically criminals.

Roma in Greece are protesting against those measures and say that those measures will not build trust.

The Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis clarified that “the police will hire approximately 50 uniformed police officers, unarmed, with special duties, who will be close to the Police Departments of the areas where these vulnerable groups live and will play the role of social mediator, this will be their mission.”\

So basically not really police, and not a role that can be sustained.

France News Western Europe

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Not much in France this week … A fire in a Roma camp near Nantes, in Western France; one site also in Wenstern France needs rehabilitation, as it has been too degraded; and one camp being dismantled near Paris. 

Italy News Western Europe

Amico Rom

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Amico Rom

The 32nd edition of Amico Rom, an event combining a competition, awards, music, cultural events, and celebrations, will get underway on October 3, 2025. Following the well-attended and moving celebration in memory of the deported Roma and Sinti children held on September 30, this Friday there will be three events in Lanciano: at 10:30 a.m., in the Parco delle Memorie, the solemn ceremony for the Samudaripen (Roma and Sinti genocide) will be held, with the laying of a laurel wreath and speeches by the authorities; At 4:00 pm, the Casa di Conversazione will screen the documentary “A Roma’s Dream,” starring Croatian MP Veljko Kajtazi.

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Catalogna: Exhibition

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Catalogna: Exhibition

Mercedes Porras, a Romani activist and curator of the exhibition The Roma people in Catalonia: history and culture, which can be seen at the Museum of the History of Catalonia until August 2, 2026 is part of the commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the Great Raid of 1749 and the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the Roma people to the peninsula.

Germany News Western Europe

Final Rest

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Final Rest

Three Roma remains collected for racist research purposes around 150 years ago have been interred at Leipzig’s Südfriedhof Cemetery. “In the best case scenario, we can succeed in alleviating some of the suffering that was committed long ago in the here and now,” said Prof. Martin Gericke, who heads provenance research at the Institute of Anatomy in Leipzig.

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