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Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Bulgaria and Roma

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Bulgaria and Roma

In Pleven, Bulgaria, Roma children will be included in sports clubs in football, tennis and basketball. The idea is to “socialise” children and students from ethnic minorities through sports, explained Ivaylo Lazarov, director of the Student Sports School (USS) in Pleven, which won funding for its project “To play sports together, albeit different”.

What this also implicitly says: Up till now, Roma children were not included … That says a lot.

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Poland: Memorial

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Poland: Memorial

A year ago, at the cemetery in Imbramowice, near Wrocław, the construction of a monument financed by the Institute of National Remembrance was completed on a collective grave of 50 Polish citizens of Roma nationality, murdered by the Germans on February 2 and 3, 1943 in Imbramowice and Wolbrom. At that time, due to the limitations related to the pandemic, it was not possible to consecrate the tombstone. It was successfully consecrated last Sunday.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa Ukraine

Czech Republic and Roma refugees

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Czech Republic and Roma refugees

Roma refugees in Prague were housed in 4 large tents. Two of them have now been dismantled.

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Slovakia and Projects

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Slovakia and Projects

Dozens of Roma civic activists from Gemer, Novohrad and Malohont in Slovakia have been participating in activities aimed at furthering their involvement in cultural, social and communal events in the region since the autumn of 2019. The project, implemented by the Láčho drom cultural and educational association from Kokava nad Rimavicou in the Poltár district, was supported by the European Social Fund through the Operational Program Effective Public Administration in the amount of EUR 338,625, of which five percent was co-financing.

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Czech Republic and Roma Holocaust

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A former Czech MP has been sentenced to six months’ probation for denying the genocide of the Roma. In 2017, Miloslav Rozner of the right-wing party Freedom and Direct Democracy described the Roma concentration camp in Lety as a “non-existent pseudo-concentration camp”. A district court in Prague assessed this as a denial of the genocide of the Sinti and Roma. However, the judgment is not yet final.

Koratien News Osteuropa

Ustasha and Roma

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Ustasha and Roma

Croatia for the first tie commemorated Roma victims of the Ustasha who literally killed the entire Roma population of Croatia. Meanwhile, the Jewish community declined to participate in the commemoration in Jasenovac, the infamous concentration camp. They are right, and Roma should do the same.

News Osteuropa Ukraine

Roma Activist on the Ukraine

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Roma Activist on the Ukraine

Ukrainian Roma activists are criticising the ongoing discrimination against Roma in the Ukraine and highlight that this is being used by Russian propaganda to brand Ukrainians as “Nazis”.

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French Chronicle …

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French Chronicle …

In spite of the elections, there was space in the French press for some news on Roma…

A festival, from the 29th of April to May 1st, in Seissan will see some well-known and lesser known artists, and will feature an Egyptian singer, thus contributing to the enduring Egyptian connection of Roma. Other news are more of the usual: In Paris, residents complaining of armed Roma bands near the Camp de Mars; a fire in a camp near Paris; in Annecy, an owner tried to expulse Roma squatters; and finally in Montpellier, the new “transition camp” will soon open and a camp is being closed;

News Osteuropa Ukraine

The Scandal Pictures

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The Scandal Pictures

The picture of Roma bound to posts made it through social media, amplified by Russia, alleging this was outright discrimination. As usual, reality is more circumstantiated, as these Roma were caught stealing (see also below the article in Romea). Nevertheless, self-justice, and especially of this kind is not acceptable.

This Ukrainian article strongly condemn this act, and effectively says this plays in the hand of the Russians in their attempt to portray all Ukrainians as Nazis.

Europe

EU and Roma

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European Parliament representatives, the European Commission and the Council of Europe Development Bank, together with local authorities, Roma communities and private sector organizations, will launch a pilot project to promote affordable housing solutions for Roma.

The initiative, known as the HERO pilot project – Housing and Empowerment for Roma – is funded by the European Parliament (EP), managed by the European Commission (EC) and implemented by the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) together with local partners in the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Romania. The aim of the project is to test an innovative model of social investment that addresses the socio-economic exclusion of disadvantaged people, such as marginalized Roma.

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Hero

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Hero

Better housing, employment and better living conditions are to be brought by the HERO – Housing and Empowerment for Roma project, funded by the European Parliament to members of marginalized Roma communities. If the aid model implemented in five Slovak municipalities and others in Bulgaria and Romania proves successful, it is to be applied throughout Europe, as per Ingrid udviková from the Press Office of the European Commission (EC) in Slovakia.

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Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale

A project by the Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was inaugurated in the Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. For the first time in the over 120-year history of the Biennale, the national pavilion is represented by a Roma artist. The pavilion opening ceremony was attended by: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Wanda Zwinogrodzka, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Barbara Schabowska and director of Zachęta Janusz Janowski.

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