Austria – rroma.org https://rroma.org Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:25:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Austria – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Butchu Festival https://rroma.org/butchu-festival/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=butchu-festival Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:25:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33308 The Roma-Butschu festival in Burgenland celebrates the traditions of the Roma community, featuring performances from various ethnic groups, including Croatian and Hungarian ensembles.

Notable performances included the Leon Berger Band and Romano Rath, with a special appearance by the Slovenian band Romano Glauso, who emphasized the need for Roma unity against discrimination.

The next Roma-Butschu is planned for next year at a new venue that will enhance cultural exchange and community interaction among different ethnic groups.

]]> Minorities https://rroma.org/minorities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minorities Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:05:21 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33196 A reform package in Austria aims to constitutionally recognize all six indigenous ethnic groups in the country, including Croats, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, and Roma.

A new ethnic group forum will be established, and an annual report will be developed to inform about federal measures for the promotion and preservation of these groups.

The package also ensures the long-term security of bilingual courts in Carinthia, consolidating court locations while maintaining existing court sessions.

]]> Burgenland Roma https://rroma.org/burgenland-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burgenland-roma-2 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:15:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32928 A lesser-known chapter of Burgenland’s Roma history will be discussed at an event organized by the Roma Adult Education Center in Burgenland. The event titled “Myth of the Reichsautobahn: Forced Labor and Suffering of Romnja and Roma from Burgenland” will feature writer and historian Ludwig Laher.

The event is scheduled for Friday, June 19, at 7 PM at the OHO – Open House Oberwart.

]]> Romano Dikipe https://rroma.org/romano-dikipe-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romano-dikipe-2 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:45:50 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32880 In this issue, Romano Dikipe accompanies the Roma-Service association during their move to the new House of Ethnic Groups in Oberwart; report on the new book by Herbert Brettl; as well as on the planned location for the central memorial for Roma and Sinti in Vienna; attended the event “Literature on the Ring” and is once again in search of traces of vanished Roma settlements in Burgenland.

]]> Austria and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-and-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-and-roma-2 Mon, 25 May 2026 15:23:41 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32715 Following the statement from the police regarding travelling Roma in Austria’s Burgenland, which contained a wealth of sterotypes, there was an outcry in the press and among the Roma from the country.

This article is a reportage within this group of mostly french pentacostal Roma and comments by Roma activists. Worth reading!

]]> Roma Resistance Day https://rroma.org/roma-resistance-day-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-resistance-day-2 Sat, 16 May 2026 15:35:45 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32606 May 16th marks the 82nd anniversary of Romani Resistance Day. In 1944, Roma and Sinti resisted the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

What is not quite correct in the ORF Program is their statement that this uprising “saved thoudans of lives”. We simply do not know, and it did not prevent the destruction of the “Zigeunerlager” on August 2nd, 1944.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma-3 Sun, 10 May 2026 15:13:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32532 The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission has intervened following a letter from employees of the Neusiedl am See district police command warning the public about Roma and Sinti. Intended as crime prevention information to combat fraud, the now-deleted text of a Facebook post used “a term perceived as discriminatory regarding the Roma ethnic group,” the ministry stated.

Now the interior Ministry is also investigating.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma-2 Sat, 09 May 2026 14:50:47 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32523 Representatives of the Roma community have sharply criticized a letter from the Neusiedl am See district police command. The letter warns of criminal activities by the traveller community. The state police command condemns the wording of the letter and intends to conduct an internal investigation.

]]> Zentralrat on Austria https://rroma.org/zentralrat-on-austria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zentralrat-on-austria Fri, 08 May 2026 15:40:35 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32508 The Chairman of the German Central Council of Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, pointed out that the National Socialists called on the population in 1933 not to buy from Jews and had police and SS troops march in front of Jewish businesses. He was criticising a letter by the Austrian police of the Burgenland warning the population about Sinti and Roma.

Rose appealed to Interior Minister Karner of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) to initiate disciplinary proceedings against those responsible within the police force. He emphasized that the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities entered into force in Austria in 1998. This obligates the state to counteract all forms of anti-Gypsyism. The Central Council stated that the Europe-wide rise of nationalist forces, which often base their political program on racism and incitement and have now become the strongest political force in Austria, is alarming.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:29 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32505 The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission criticized a letter issued by the Burgenland police authority in Neusiedl on Friday, in which the police warned the population about Roma and Sinti. The letter, the Commissioner argued, perpetuates historical anti-Roma stereotypes. The letter’s instruction not to accept services from members of this ethnic group could constitute an incitement to discrimination, emphasized Sandra Konstatzky, head of the Equal Treatment Commission.

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