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Germany News Western Europe

Germany: Judgement

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Germany: Judgement

A blogger with around 52,000 followers posted on Twitter (now X) accusing a “large portion of the Sinti and Roma” of excluding themselves “from civilized society.” She listed accusations including welfare fraud, truancy, theft, littering, and “rental nomadism.”

The Higher Regional Court of Jena clarified that not every discriminatory statement violates human dignity. Describing Sinti and Roma as “rotating Europeans with a property-ownership disability” is grossly tasteless and defamatory—but not incitement to hatred.

France News Western Europe

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Quite a few articles about two Romanian Roma families who were condemned for having forced their children to beg. Other than that, in Nantes, Roma are voting to try to influence their fate in that city. Finally, in central France, two Serbian and two Romanian Roma were condemned for a series of burglaries.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany: Exhibition

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Germany: Exhibition

The traveling exhibition “Swabian Sinti and Roma in Past and Present” will be on display at the Nördlingen City Museum from March 17 to November 8, 2026. It illuminates the history, culture, and way of life of the German Sinti and Roma—from the first records in the 15th century through the persecution under National Socialism to the present day.

Italy News Western Europe

Pavia and Roma

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Pavia and Roma

The 21 Luglio Association has criticized the city’s plan to create a new residential area in Bivio Vela to house some Sinti families currently residing in the Piazza Europa shantytown, one of the city’s historic settlements. According to Carlo Stasolla, president of the association, creating housing spaces reserved for a single ethnic community is a resurgence of an outdated model. “Monoethnic settlements,” he states, “risk turning into new ghettos and do not foster real inclusion.”

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This week, the only articles on Roma concern the municipal elections being held in France on March 12th and all of these articles concern Roma in Nantes who are trying to have a say in those elections. Apparently, they massively registered to vote (as they can in France). The only other articles are a squat being closed in Lyon, and one from the extreme right Breizh Info on a so called reportage in the largest slum in France.

Germany News Western Europe

Dachau

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Dachau

To commemorate the deportation of Munich’s Sinti and Roma on March 13, 1943, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site is offering a themed tour, “Sinti and Roma in Dachau Concentration Camp.” The event on Saturday, March 14, is also a contribution to the International Weeks Against Racism.

From 1938 onward, Sinti and Roma were deported to Dachau Concentration Camp in large numbers. There, they often occupied a low position in the prisoner hierarchy and were assigned to particularly harsh work details. Even after 1945, Sinti and Roma often continued to face discrimination. Using numerous biographical examples, the tour tells the story of a long-forgotten group of persecuted people.

Austria News Western Europe

Austrian Memorial

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Austrian Memorial

Half a million Romani and Sinti people were persecuted and murdered in Europe by the Nazi regime. Many thousands of them came from Austria. However, there is still no nationwide memorial in Austria for the victims of the genocide. Now it seems within reach, but the location is still under discussion.

France News Western Europe

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Basically nothing about Roma this week in French media. Not surprising as there are many other news… Only the case of two Roma who took a cubic metre of water of a hydrant, and the arrival of mobile homes in a so-called “insertion village” in Western France.

Greece News Western Europe

Greece: Theft

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Greece: Theft

A large police action recovering stolen electrical cable and documenting water theft. Apparenly in a Roma neighbourhood, although this is not directly mentioned in the article but just in its hashtag.

Germany News Western Europe

Photographs

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Photographs

An exhibition in the newly furnished exhibition room at the Museum of City and Cultural History in Menden, opens on March 7, 2026. It is titled  “Photographs of Sinti and Roma” by the photographic artist Dirk Vogel  who photographed several series of images of Sinti and Roma in Germany, Poland, and southern France during his studies.

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An exhibition of works of Ceija Stoika; and the more usual news: A camp closed near Paris, requiring lots of cleanup; the Roma question in the French municiapl elections; the Genocide of the Roma will have a memorial ihn the South of France; and a meeting with the “gens du voyage” near Paris.

Germany News Western Europe

Representation

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Representation

From March 6 to 29, 2026, BLECH, Kunstraum Halle e.V., will present the exhibition “In Search of Eldorado – Roma and Sinti in the Struggle for Representation.” It will feature photographs by the artist Nihad Nino Pušija, who has been photographically exploring the lives of members of the Roma community for more than 30 years.

Sinti and Roma are considered one of the most marginalized population groups in Europe. Their public perception is still often shaped by stereotypical imagery. According to the organizers, there is a continued lack of spaces for self-determined cultural representation and nuanced visibility. Pušija’s photographic work aims to foster a more complex and self-determined perspective on Sinti and Roma.

Italy News Western Europe

Romani Language and Culture

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Romani Language and Culture

The second edition of the “Romani Language and Culture” course will begin on March 4th at Sapienza University of Rome. The course aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the language, traditions, and history of the Romani people, with a multidisciplinary approach that combines theory, practice, and critical reflection. Topics covered include Romani grammar, culture and traditions, the Samudaripen (the extermination of Roma and Sinti during Nazi-Fascism), the living conditions of Roma in Europe and Latin America, inclusion policies, the fight against discrimination and hate speech, the struggle for civil rights, and the promotion of a culture of respect and integration.

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