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Ladislav Body

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The Czech Roma activist and Member of Parliament Ladislaw Body died a few days ago at the early age of 68. He engaged himself relentlessly for the cause of the Roma and for their rights, this in a country not known for its love of the Roma minority.
May he rest in peace! T’ovel o drom angla leste puterdo!

– Zemřel bývalý poslanec Ladislav Body. 26.11.2017. http://www.romea.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/domaci/zemrel-byvaly-poslanec-ladislav-body
– Czech Roma activist, former MP Ladislav Body dies. In: Prague Daily Monitor. 27.11.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/11/27/czech-roma-activist-former-mp-ladislav-body-dies [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/domaci/zemrel-byvaly-poslanec-ladislav-body “]

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czech Republic: Jellyfish

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The Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Karel Novotny who compared Roma to “jellyfish” is leaving the Czech Social Democratic Party.
Well … He should have been expelled!

– Deputy minister calling Roma names leaves ČSSD. In: Prague Daily Monitor. 27.11.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/11/27/deputy-minister-calling-roma-names-leaves-čssd [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/11/27/deputy-minister-calling-roma-names-leaves-čssd”]

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czech Republic: Jellyfish

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The Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Karel Novotny who compared Roma to “jellyfish” is leaving the Czech Social Democratic Party.
Well … He should have been expelled!

– Deputy minister calling Roma names leaves ČSSD. In: Prague Daily Monitor. 27.11.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/11/27/deputy-minister-calling-roma-names-leaves-čssd [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/11/27/deputy-minister-calling-roma-names-leaves-čssd”]

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czech Republic: Hepatitis Epidemic

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Ušti nad Labem in the Czech Republic is experiencing an epidemic of Hepatitis A with nearly 300 people affected. The outbreak started in a Roma settlement and later spread to the town.

– Epidemic of hepatitis in Czech town: Local Romani organization offers aid. In: Romea.cz. 24.11.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/epidemic-of-hepatitis-in-czech-town-local-romani-organization-offers-aid [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/epidemic-of-hepatitis-in-czech-town-local-romani-organization-offers-aid”]

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: Integration

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The mayor of a small village in Slovakia wants Roma to be integrated. The village is making efforts, which is good.
Let’s hope it works out.

– Starosta Gerlachova: Rómov treba začleniť do spoločnosti. In: Verbena. 23.11.2017. http://bardejov.dnes24.sk/starosta-gerlachova-romov-treba-zaclenit-do-spolocnosti-285058 [link-preview url=”http://bardejov.dnes24.sk/starosta-gerlachova-romov-treba-zaclenit-do-spolocnosti-285058″]

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: Integration

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The mayor of a small village in Slovakia wants Roma to be integrated. The village is making efforts, which is good.
Let’s hope it works out.

– Starosta Gerlachova: Rómov treba začleniť do spoločnosti. In: Verbena. 23.11.2017. http://bardejov.dnes24.sk/starosta-gerlachova-romov-treba-zaclenit-do-spolocnosti-285058 [link-preview url=”http://bardejov.dnes24.sk/starosta-gerlachova-romov-treba-zaclenit-do-spolocnosti-285058″]

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: Roma the Government

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The visit of a mayor in a Roma settlement in Slovakia. Not pretty.

– Rómov v Kuzmiciach pobúril pokus starostu Krásnej: Drsný odkaz! In: TIVI. 25.11.2017. https://tivi.cas.sk/video/2513618/romov-v-kuzmiciach-poburil-pokus-starostu-krasnej-drsny-odkaz/ [link-preview url=”https://tivi.cas.sk/video/2513618/romov-v-kuzmiciach-poburil-pokus-starostu-krasnej-drsny-odkaz/”]

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: Roma the Government

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The visit of a mayor in a Roma settlement in Slovakia. Not pretty.

– Rómov v Kuzmiciach pobúril pokus starostu Krásnej: Drsný odkaz! In: TIVI. 25.11.2017. https://tivi.cas.sk/video/2513618/romov-v-kuzmiciach-poburil-pokus-starostu-krasnej-drsny-odkaz/ [link-preview url=”https://tivi.cas.sk/video/2513618/romov-v-kuzmiciach-poburil-pokus-starostu-krasnej-drsny-odkaz/”]

Frankreich Moldawien News Osteuropa News Westeuropa

Moldovan Roma – 10 years later

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Finally some positive news. In the North of France, an article about Moldovan Roma, who, 10 years after their arrival, are citizen like any others.
Good!

– Après dix ans de chaos, les Moldovan, des Lillois comme les autres. In: La Voix du Nord. 22.11.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/270603/article/2017-11-22/apres-dix-ans-de-chaos-les-moldovan-des-lillois-comme-les-autres [link-preview url=”http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/270603/article/2017-11-22/apres-dix-ans-de-chaos-les-moldovan-des-lillois-comme-les-autres”]

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia: Special Schools or not?

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Slovakia has a tradition of putting Roma in special school for children with mental problems. An NGO wanted to check the situation. It still exists, but is probably more differentiated. In the Rokycani district, 20% of Roma children are still enrolled in such schools. High by any standards, but lower than it was.

– OĽaNO chce preveriť zaraďovanie Rómov do špeciálnych základných škôl. In: SME Domov. 25.11.2017. https://domov.sme.sk/c/20702484/olano-chce-preverit-zaradovanie-romov-do-specialnych-zakladnych-skol.html [link-preview url=”https://domov.sme.sk/c/20702484/olano-chce-preverit-zaradovanie-romov-do-specialnych-zakladnych-skol.html”]

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Plovdiv Region: More Hepatitis

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An article on the Hepatitis A epidemic affecting mostly Roma children in the Plovdiv region in Bulgaria.

– Plovdiv: 71 of total 89 people infected with hepatitis A in the Roma neighborhood Rakovski of Plovdiv are children aged 1 to 14 years. In: Focus. 25.11.2017. http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/11/25/425358/71-of-total-89-people-infected-with-hepatitis-a-in-the-roma-neighborhood-of-rakovski-in-plovdiv-are-children-aged-1-to-14-years.html [link-preview url=”http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/11/25/425358/71-of-total-89-people-infected-with-hepatitis-a-in-the-roma-neighborhood-of-rakovski-in-plovdiv-are-children-aged-1-to-14-years.html”]

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

More on Lety!

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More articles on the purchase of the pig farm on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety, in the Czech Republic.

– Tschechien: Roma-Gedenkstätte ersetzt Schweinemast auf früherem NS-Lagergelände. In: RT. 24.11.2017. https://deutsch.rt.com/europa/61138-tschechien-roma-gedenkstaette-ersetzt-schweinemast-auf-früherem-ns-lagergelaende/
– Schweinefarm wird zur KZ-Gedenkstätte. In: N-TV. 23.11.2017. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Schweinefarm-wird-zur-KZ-Gedenkstaette-article20148960.html
– Czechy: Rząd wykupił chlewnię obejmującą teren obozu dla Romów. In: Farmer.pl. 24.11.2017. http://www.farmer.pl/fakty/unia-europejska/czechy-rzad-wykupil-chlewnie-obejmujaca-teren-obozu-dla-romow,75112.html [link-preview url=”https://deutsch.rt.com/europa/61138-tschechien-roma-gedenkstaette-ersetzt-schweinemast-auf-früherem-ns-lagergelaende/ “]

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Bought !

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At last, the pig farm on the former site of the Lety concentration camp has been bought by the Czech Government.

– Czech Republic buys pig farm at former Nazi camp to shutter it. In: The Times of Israel. 23.11.2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/czech-republic-buys-pig-farm-at-former-nazi-camp-to-shutter-it/ [link-preview url=”https://www.timesofisrael.com/czech-republic-buys-pig-farm-at-former-nazi-camp-to-shutter-it/”]

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Bulgaria: Hepatitis

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There is an hepatitis A epidemic in the Roma Mahala in the small town of Rakovski near Plovdiv in the centre of the country. Non Roma parents have been protesting and requesting Roma children be removed from the elementary school.
How about treating them instead?

– Hepatitis A Sparks Protests for Removing Gypsies From an Elementary School. In: EU Scoop. https://www.euscoop.com/en/2017/11/23/gepatitis-infection-in-rakovski
– Roma Ghetto in Southern Bulgarian City Struggling with Hepatitis A Outbreak. In: Novinite. 23.11.2017. http://www.novinite.com/articles/185524/Roma+Ghetto+in+Southern+Bulgarian+City+Struggling+with+Hepatitis+A+Outbreak [link-preview url=”https://www.euscoop.com/en/2017/11/23/gepatitis-infection-in-rakovski “]

Ungarn News Osteuropa

Buddha, Roma, and Hungary

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A reportage about a Buddhist school founded in a small village in Hungary with the aim of helping young Roma to get an education and gain a foothold in life.
A must see.

– Der zornige Buddha. In: ZDF. 21.11.2017. https://www.zdf.de/filme/das-kleine-fernsehspiel/der-zornige-buddha-100.html [link-preview url=”https://www.zdf.de/filme/das-kleine-fernsehspiel/der-zornige-buddha-100.html”]

News Osteuropa Slowenien

Slovenia: Health Program

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An article about a Slovenian Health program aimed mostly at poor Roma, especially at women and children. Good idea, unfortunately, the article manages to put all Roma in the same pot, as usual…
So good program, not so good article, as usual.

– Izobraževanje Romov glede zdravja naletelo na dober odziv. In: RTV Slovenia. 17.11.2017. https://www.rtvslo.si/lokalne-novice/izobrazevanje-romov-glede-zdravja-naletelo-na-dober-odziv/438167 [link-preview url=”https://www.rtvslo.si/lokalne-novice/izobrazevanje-romov-glede-zdravja-naletelo-na-dober-odziv/438167″]

Ungarn News Osteuropa

Livia Jaroca

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The Hungarian Romni, Livia Jaroca who was recently elected as a vice-president of the European Parliament, recently gave an interview in the Hungarian Press. Well, she is indeed a member of Fidesz, a party that is not exactly known for its kind policies towards migrants (and Roma). In there, she states:
“We would like it if they [the refugees] would understand that we find it important that, after a rapid and effective integration, armed with European knowledge, they would be able to return to their own homelands.”
Seems that Hungary accepted around 1’000 refugees – very quietly indeed. But these words from the Fidesz Party are new.

– BEWARE, THE REFUGEES ARE COMING! IN: The Hungarian Spectrum. 20.11.2017. http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/11/20/beware-the-refugees-are-coming/ [link-preview url=”http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/11/20/beware-the-refugees-are-coming/”]

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Sofia: Interdiction of Carriages

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Horse carriages have been banned “for security reasons” from the centre of town. This means that many Roma who use them to earn their livings will no longer be able to come in the centre and will loose their livelihood.
According to TV Nova, this is more about the image that Sofia wants to project when Bulgaria will be the president of the EU in the first semester of 2018.

– BULGARIE : LES CHARRETTES DES ROMS VONT DISPARAÎTRE DU CENTRE DE SOFIA. In: Le Corrier des Balkans. 19.11.2017. https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Bulgarie-Les-charrettes-vont-disparaitre-du-centre-de-Sofia [link-preview url=”https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Bulgarie-Les-charrettes-vont-disparaitre-du-centre-de-Sofia”]

News Osteuropa Serbien

I even met happy Gypsies …

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The old movie “I even met happy Gypsies” from Aleksandar Petrović was re-released in a newly re-mastered version. The movie had won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury in cannes in 1967 (ex aequo with another movie).
While it is an iconic movie, it also perpetuates all stereotypes …

– http://www.culturopoing.com/cinema/reprises/aleksandar-petrovic-jai-meme-rencontre-des-tziganes-heureux-skupljaci-perja-1967/20171113 [link-preview url=”http://www.culturopoing.com/cinema/reprises/aleksandar-petrovic-jai-meme-rencontre-des-tziganes-heureux-skupljaci-perja-1967/20171113″]

News Osteuropa Slowenien

Slovenia, Roma, and Parliament

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Activists in Slovenia say Roma need to become more active in politics and be recognised as a minority so that they can have a representative in Parliament. This later point is always a subject of debate. What an a minority representative do in a parliament?

– Roma need representative in National Assembly, debate hears. In: STA. 17.11.2017. https://english.sta.si/2451623/roma-need-representative-in-national-assembly-debate-hears [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2451623/roma-need-representative-in-national-assembly-debate-hears”]

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