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Slovenia, Roma, and Schools

Mai 28, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

An editorial following an incident in a football field in a school where a Roma boy took the ball from an ethnic Slovene who fell and had to be brought to a hospital. The Roma boy was deemed “aggressive”.

The editorial argues that ethnicity has nothing to do with capacities, behaviour, and values.

Blaming Roma is simply not an acceptable excuse.

Kolumna Gordane Stojiljković: Romski otrok. In: Slovenska Novice. 27.05.2025. https://www.slovenskenovice.si/kolumne/kolumna-gordane-stojiljkovic-romski-otrok/#google_vignette

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The Church and Roma

Mai 28, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

The German Catholic Foundation Renovabis and the Bishops’ Conference of Slovakia (KBS) announced that in 2025 they will also financially support the development of Roma pastoral centers and Catholic Roma missions through the Capacity Building for Roma Pastoral Work and Its Sustainability program and its Small Projects Fund.

The aim of this joint initiative, which began in 2015, is to strengthen the spiritual service, social inclusion and human development of Roma in Slovakia in accordance with the Christian values of solidarity, respect and integration.

Well, in terms of combatting racism and exclusion, the catholic church, and the Slovak one in aprticular, haven’t got a real track record…

Renovabis s KBS podporia rozvoj centier pastorácie Rómov a rómskych misií. In: TKKBS. 27.05.2025. https://www.tkkbs.sk/view.php?cisloclanku=20250527011

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Slovakia and EU Funds

Mai 28, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

The EU control commission, which is currently examining the use of EU funds in Slovakia, will also meet with the Roma MEP from the Slovakia movement, Peter Pollák. “MEPs will rightly ask why European taxpayers’ money should be spent on media houses, tree planting or other ‘soft’ projects, while people in settlements live without water, sewage and basic infrastructure. We have something to talk about,” he said. According to Pollák, hundreds of millions of euros are spent on analyses, strategic documents and training, but practically nothing has changed in Roma settlements over the years. He claims that people continue to live in inhumane conditions despite the fact that we have historically received the most money from the European Union to improve their lives – more than a billion euros.

S kontrolnou komisiou, ktorá v týchto dňoch preveruje využívanie eurofondov na Slovensku, sa stretne aj rómsky poslanec hnutia Slovensko Peter Pollák. In: Postoj. 27.05.2025. https://www.postoj.sk/176127/dnes-treba-vediet