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Copenhagen Summit

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Roma activist Selviya Mustafi from North Macedonia discussed a “Democratic Digital Organization” with former US President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen Democratic Summit in a panel.

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Strange Story

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A really strange story: Maria Kirstent was adopted by a Danish couple at the age of four. She does not speak Hungarian. Two years ago, a Danish television company trusted a journalist to look up her parents who were found in a Roma ghetto. This is the story of the meeting and a clash of civilisation.

– Semmire sem emlékszem a múltamból. In: Index. 05.10.2018. https://index.hu/belfold/2018/10/05/roma_orokbeadas_dania_kutatas/ [link-preview url=”https://index.hu/belfold/2018/10/05/roma_orokbeadas_dania_kutatas/”]

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Denmark and Begging

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A year passed since Denmark banned begging. They arrested and condemned 52 people for begging, all foreigners. 32 of them were from Romania.
The law was clearly slated against Roma.

– Le Danemark fait le bilan de sa loi anti-mendicité. In: La Croix. 16.07.2018. https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Europe/Le-Danemark-fait-bilan-loi-anti-mendicite-2018-07-16-1200955438 [link-preview url=”https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Europe/Le-Danemark-fait-bilan-loi-anti-mendicite-2018-07-16-1200955438″]

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Denmark and Begging

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Denmark is now putting beggars for two weeks in jail after a lwa voted by the parliament in June. Bad…
Also bad that this paper specifically states that Denmark puts up laws against Roma – event though the law is against begging, equating all Roma with Beggars.
WORSE.

– Le Danemark légifère contre les Roms. Le Nouvelliste. 22.07.2017. http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/monde/le-danemark-legifere-contre-les-roms-686729 [link-preview url=”http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/monde/le-danemark-legifere-contre-les-roms-686729″]

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Slovakia, Ghettoes, and Opportunity

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Did you know that if you are born into a poor family in Denmark or in Estonia, you have a good opportunity to achieve success in life regardless of ethnicity? But in Slovakia, it is very likely that you will remain poor and so will your children. Especially so if you are born in an Osada – a Rroma settlement.
This must change!

– Skúste si predstaviť, že sa narodíte do rómskej osady. In: Trend. 02.02.2017. http://www.etrend.sk/ekonomika/skuste-si-predstavit-ze-sa-narodite-do-romskej-osady.html [link-preview url=”http://www.etrend.sk/ekonomika/skuste-si-predstavit-ze-sa-narodite-do-romskej-osady.html”]

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Crime Boss in Denmark

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A crime boss who happens to be also a Rrom from Croatia can stay in Denmark. He is a criminal and claims to be the boss of Rroma in that country.

Well, as one says in the Balkans, he was under the bridge. And he is a criminal and should be treated as such. Ethnicity has lost nothing here.

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“Gypsy Boss” expelled from Denmark

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A “Gypsy Boss” who became known following a TV documentary was condemned to 15 months in prison and expelled from Denmark.

What is NOT ACCEPTABLE, is that ethnicity is mentioned in such cases. Would one do it with a Jew, or with another minority? Criminals are criminals, and this has no connection to origins or ethnicity.

 

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26.11.2014 Illegal black lists of immigrant groups in Denmark

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The Local Denmark (2014) reports on the existence of illegal black lists in various cities in Denmark. The local government of these cities have set different immigrant groups, such as the Chechens or the Rroma, on a list of undesirable immigrant groups. The illegal practice was revealed by the Danish newspaper Berlingske: “Some municipalities tell the Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen) not to send them refugees from certain countries, Berlingske newspaper revealed. […] Another unwanted group is the Roma. Sønderborg Council told Immigration Service that it “wants to put an end to the visits of Roma people from former Yugoslavia who come on humanitarian grounds”. Danish municipalities provide requests and recommendations to Immigration Service each year as a way to build upon previous successes with certain groups, but many of the municipalities also use the annual exercise as an opportunity to tell the national authorities which refugees they do not want. This would appear to be in violation of the nation’s immigration laws which state that no distinctions can be made based on nationality when helping those in need.” However, Rroma are not a national group, but a transnational, ethnic minority, with a centuries-old history of exclusion and persecution. The deliberate exclusion of a specific group of persons violates the anti-discrimination legislation. Rroma are not a homogeneous mass, but are composed of a variety of individuals, with diverse experiences. With the expansion of the European free movement of persons to Romania and Bulgaria, various western European countries warned of a mass immigration of poor Rroma. However, these forecasts build not on critical analysis, but on politicized, polemical estimates of migration: Rroma are not mass of uneducated poor, but belong to all strata of society and professional groups.

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26.09.2014 “Red card Against Racism: diplomats support Roma football club”

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Radio Praha (Kraus 2014) and Le Matin (2014) report on a charity match between a Czech Rroma soccer team and a diplomatic team with the ambassadors from Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and Denmark. Organised by the Swedish ambassador Annika Jagander, the game is meant to draw attention to the discrimination against Rroma: “In the still young season, two teams have refused to compete against the TJ Junior Roma, and instead preferred to pay 3,000 crowns (about 109 Euros) of fine. As a reason, the county division cites an incident dating back to 2011. A match between FC Děčín und Lokomotiva Děčín then ended in a brawl and the police had to intervene. […] “Football and sports should actually bring people closer together: both people of the same as well as from different nationalities. That this no longer works, we feel very bad about. That’s why we want to show the red card to racism” (Kraus 2014). Libor Šimeček, chairman of the Czech Football Association, meanwhile denied that the case has anything to do with racism. One will now examine in detail why five of the eleven teams in the league do not want to play against the Rroma team, he stated. The club from Frantiskov had announced that they did not want to play against the team because of the aggressive behaviour of the players of TJ Junior Roma. The Czech Republic has a population of 300,000 to 400,000 Rroma. Exact figures do not exist. Many are integrated and have a job. However, numerous are also affected by strong exclusion and social problems. Particularly, since the economic crisis and the strengthened nationalism that occurred since the end of the Eastern Bloc. Also, in several schools there is still a segregation of ethnic Czechs and Rroma (compare Le Monde 2014).

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22.08.2014 European Commission: Denmark fails to integrate its Rroma

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Weaver (2014) reports on a recent statement of the European Commission on Denmark. The Commission criticizes the poor efforts of the Danish state to integrate its estimated 10,000 Rroma. Two families from the town of Helsingør in the northeast of the country are cited as examples of how a lacking integration policy favours drifting into illegality: “The two familes – Nika and Stallone – number in the hundreds, and many of them have been sent to prison for crimes committed throughout Denmark. Laza Stallone, who last year slammed Helsingør’s efforts to support the Roma community, has been convicted of crimes several times, including a case in February in which he and two of his sons were found guilty of extortion and making death threats to a former employer. The Nika family are also no stranger to northern courtrooms. Last year, Petar Nika was sentenced to 18 years in prison for 14 cases of theft, mostly by fraud targeting the elderly and infirm. Other family members have been convicted of crimes ranging from theft and fraud to receiving stolen property.” If the European Commission has indeed communicated these two examples in such detail and the information does not originate from the Copenhagen Post itself, one can only call this representation of the situation as very unfortunate and unprofessional. Due to the detailed description of the offenses it is indeed suggested that there is a “culture of crime” among Rroma, which is not the case. Rroma are not more criminal than other ethnic groups. In addition, it should be pointed out that there are no exact figures on the number of Rroma in Denmark, as the spokesperson for the European Commission, Mina Andreeva, communicated correctly. Therefore, it is indeed difficult to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of initiatives to integrate the Rroma. The Rroma Foundation does not estimate 10,000 Rroma in Denmark, as the article communicates, but 1’500 to 2’000.

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12.03.2014 Roma and the European migration policies

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Döhner (2014) reports on the European migration regulations, on the basis of a tragic individual case. Irijana Rustemi is born in the Kosovo in 1978. At the age of three the Rromni immigrates with her parents to Croatia. In 1993, they come to Germany. Because of massive family conflicts with the family of her ex-husband, who feels provoked by the new partner of Rustemi, she and her family flee to Denmark for 22 months. This exit becomes a calamity for the family: “If refugees enter Germany over a “safe third country”, they can not apply for asylum here, but only in the country over which they have entered.” Now the large family is facing deportation into the Kosovo, although all children of Rustemi are born in Germany and go to school there. Rustemi had previously received a residency permit on humanitarian grounds, but it was cancelled due to the departure to Denmark. In Denmark their asylum application was rejected.

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