Monthly Archives: Oktober 2024

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czechia and Segregated Schools

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Czechia and Segregated Schools

The Ministry of Regional Development joined the Memorandum on Cooperation in Ending Ethnic Segregation in Education, which was signed in the spring of this year by representatives of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the National Pedagogical Institute and research organization PAQ Research. This initiative is essential for improving the conditions of Roma pupils in so-called segregated schools so that all children get equal access to education. The memorandum includes a commitment to support school founders and principals in their efforts to improve the quality of education for all children.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czechia and Roma Schoolchildren

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Czechia and Roma Schoolchildren

School principals in Czechia received detailed instructions from government representative Lucie Fuková on how to proceed when determining the Roma origin of children. Some have been reluctant to count the Roma until now. By getting their numbers, the state aims to prevent segregation. Many of them do not agree with this census because they find it uncomfortable to proceed in this way.

The criteria are scary: These include, for example, appearance. If the child is perceived as Roma, the directors can infer his Roma origin. The same applies if one of the parents or relatives in the direct line is Romani, the child has a typical Romani name or surname, or the pupil or family directly speaks the Romani language or an ethnolect (a language variant associated with a specific ethnic minority).

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia, Graves, and Roma

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Slovakia, Graves, and Roma

Another article about cemeteries in Slovakia. According to the article, the cemetery ry in Žehra (Spišská Nová Ves district) is dotted with bizarre black tombstones. In Prešov, a larger-than-life-sized marble engraved mobster haunts the ciry, and another extravagance has been added to the grave of Řuma (†53) from a lavish funeral!

News Schweiz

Zurich and Ukrainian Refugees

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Zurich and Ukrainian Refugees

The Swiss politician Mario Fehr (not affiliated to any party) gave a press conference on asylum in Zurich, Switzerland. There, he said that he would be willing to give residency to all Ukrainians who work, but would send back the others. And finally, he said that Roma come with false papers, and are not threatened by war.

We had the opportunity to Speak to Mr. Fehr, for which we are thankful, and he confirmed that the statements in 20 Minutes are not what he said. 

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Bulgaria’s Vote

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Bulgaria’s Vote

Delyan Peevski’s “DPS-New Beginning” gathered the most votes in the large Roma neighborhoods in Sofia – “Filipovtsi” and “Hristo Botev”. In Plovdiv and Varna, the populist GERB party apprently won in the Roma neighbourhoods in Plovdiv and Varna.

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: Tombstones

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Slovakia: Tombstones

The story of a small village, Žehra with a gothic church, confronted now with tombstones with a colorful, life-size likeness in black marble are a novelty at the cemetery in, which local Roma build for their deceased.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czechia: Roma vakeren

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Czechia: Roma vakeren

Another “Roma Vakeren” in Czechia. This time on Patrik Banga’s a Roma journalist book “on the way to America” snd on the Czech Television’s documentary cycle Me Som presenting Roma personalities, here Elena Gorolová, a fighter for compensation for involuntarily sterilized women.

News Osteuropa Slowenien

Roma Community in Slovenia

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Roma Community in Slovenia

An article about the Roma community in South Eastern Slovenia. Here, the article focuses on a program for teenagers and young mothers at the Brezje – Žabjak. The young mothers agree that their children should go to kindergarten, but not to a Roma kindergarten, but to a normal kindergarten, where they get to know other children and learn the language at the same time.

News Osteuropa Slowenien

Slovenia and Roma Funds

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Slovenia and Roma Funds

The Slovenian government has allocated funds to municipalities where Roma live in Slovenia as part of the National Program of Actions for Roma for the period 2021-2030. In the municipality of Krško, they allocated 80’000 euros of their 700’000 allocation to raise awareness among the residents of the Roma settlement of Kerinov Grm. Apparently, the money went straight to a long-time builder for the municipality and a Roma councillor. This is not quite the purpose of these grants …

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: The Roma School

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Slovakia: The Roma School

Two articles in the Slovak press about this new initiative of a school where teaching will be done in Romanes. This is presented a good idea in Slovakia and esopecially so by the government. The result will be a segregated school whose standards will be rock-bottom.

News Osteuropa Slowenien

Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

Anti-Roma rhetoric is on the rise in Slovenia, echoed by the media and fueled by politicians of all persuasions, following several incidents involving members of the community in the south-east of the country. While Roma are the most discriminated against minority in Slovenia, there are solutions to improve integration. An interview with a Roma activist.

Frankreich News Westeuropa

French Chronicle …

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French Chronicle …

More news this week about Roma in France. First, a photography exhibition about Roma in the Balkans. The issue, they speak of “nomad” populations, which is totally wrong in the Balkans. Second, it shows the usual pictures of poverty and many children, which is a result of exclusion, not Roma traditions. In brief, these exhibitions strengthen stereotypes.

A reportage in Nantes  focuses on a new camp near the city and the controversies that it generates there. The story of a premature baby who was abbducted by its parents recently made the headlines in France. The parents were later stopped in Belgium. Here, the article says that the father and mother are Roma, that the father is a petty criminal and the mother a toxicoman.

The other news are more common: A camp near Paris and one near Toulosue were dismantled.

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Bulgaria: Vote Buying and Threats

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Bulgaria: Vote Buying and Threats

An article whereby a Romano “baron” threatened the journalist Maria Tsantsarova from B TV after she had been investigating vote buying.

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Bulgaria: Razzia

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Bulgaria: Razzia

The Bulgarian Police raided the Sliven Roma district “Nadezhda” and blocked all exits for several hours. They apparently found notebooks with names and money amounts pointing to possible vote buying in the upcoming Bulgarian elections.

It is a common theme that Roma vote are there to be bought in Bulgaria.

News Osteuropa Russland

Russia and Roma

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Russia and Roma

Following the murder of a taxi driver in the region of Cheliabinsk, a murder that was bamed on Roma, a pogrom took place in the Roma neighbourhood.

Bad.

News Osteuropa Polen

Oświęcim: Commemoration

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Oświęcim: Commemoration

On October 21st, 1981, an incident occurred in Oświęcim that quickly turned into a series of acts of violence directed against Roma families. The argument between Roma and non-Roma over their place in the queue escalated to such an extent that the townspeople formed a committee to “expel the Gypsies” from Auschwitz. Houses were set on fire, cars were destroyed, and physical violence was committed. Over 100 people were forced to leave the town and eventually the country. Instead of passports, the Roma were given so-called travel documents, which allowed them to leave Poland but did not allow them to return.

News Osteuropa Polen

Łodź: Conference

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Łodź: Conference

A conference on Roma settlements and houses by the political scientist Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski will be held on the 26 of October in Łodź.

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