Monthly Archives: mars 2025

Roma Ball in Prešov, Slovakia

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Roma Ball in Prešov, Slovakia

The Roma Ball of Understanding was organized in Prešov. Roma also came from abroad. People from the majority also had fun to the tunes of the cymbalum with the youngest primash Samin from the Ďusi Band Orchestra. “Until the Roma songs start playing, people are like petrified,” laughed the main organizer Juraj Kýr.

Teaching about Roma in Greece and Romania

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Teaching about Roma in Greece and Romania

The representation of people in schools says a lot about their condition. In this regard, that of the Roma raises questions in the Balkan countries: despite some real efforts, school textbooks remain very incomplete and perpetuate false ideas, as in Romania and Greece.

Good article, false history… Roma left earlier than indicated.

French Chronicle …

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French Chronicle …

This week, an article looks at the difficult living conditions in a Roma camp in Western France; one article tells about neighbours of a Roma camp in Southern France complaining about dirt and garbage; and finally, two articles about an altercation between Roma that left 2 people with knife wounds.

Slovakia: Relocation

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Slovakia: Relocation

The city of Žilina will remove unimo cells (basically containers), in which 28 Roma families lived after the fires in Roma settlements in 2009 and 2016. These containers, on Bratislavská Street will be replaced by an apartment building built for 200’000 euros, and there are further plans for another 800’000 euros. Some members of the social commission proposed the abolition of the settlemtn and the immediate integration of Roma among residents in other parts of the city.

Well either way, if the residents do not have jobs and education, this will provide little progress.

Bulgaria: About Mother Tongue …

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Bulgaria: About Mother Tongue …

An article that totally misses the point. A project, that aims to “help” people with a different mother tongue (read Roma and Turks). What they miss is that Roma always grow up with several mother tongues, local and Romanes, and in the Balkan, Ottoman Turkish.

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Bulgaria and Mahala

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Bulgaria and Mahala

An unfinished apartment block, where Roma families have settled themselves and are raising their children there, continues to be a major problem according to the people of the neighbourhood. Residents have repeatedly filed reports that public order is being violated.

Now these issues in Humni Dol were discussed at a second working meeting between representatives of the local government as well as with Roma mediators. It is doubtful they will find solutions …

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