septembre 16, 2025

Italy and Roma

septembre 16, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples, last Saturday morning in a lecture to workers engaged in pastoral care for Roma, Sinti, and Caminanti, gathered in the Campania capital for their annual meeting said that Pastoral care for Roma and Sinti requires “recognizing the dignity of those who live with pauses and restarts, dismantling the prejudice that confuses mobility and suspicion, moving from a ‘integration’ that unifies to an alliance that values languages, crafts, music, and extended family.”

Well, the catholic church doesn’t have a good track record of caring for Roma …

Rom e sinti: card. Battaglia (Napoli), “niente sgomberi senza alternativa, nessun ordine senza ascolto, nessuna statistica senza volti”. In: Agen SIR. 15.09.2025.https://www.agensir.it/quotidiano/2025/9/15/rom-e-sinti-card-battaglia-napoli-niente-sgomberi-senza-alternativa-nessun-ordine-senza-ascolto-nessuna-statistica-senza-volti/

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovénie

Southern Slovenia and Roma

septembre 16, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

The meeting with mayors at the premises of the Novo Mesto municipality is being attended by the Minister of Labor, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Luka Mesec, the Minister of Justice Andreja Katič and the State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior Helga Dobrin, who is also the head of the working group for addressing Roma issues.

According to some media, Minister Luka Mesec, who is visiting southeastern Slovenia with a government team today, where “a chaotic situation with problematic Roma prevails”, did not visit dangerous Roma settlements.

The situation is bad, and Roma are being instrumentalised.

Mesec ni upal v nevarna romska naselja? In: Nova 24 TV. 16.09.2025. https://nova24tv.si/mesec-ni-upal-v-nevarna-romska-naselja/
Obisk jugovzhodne Slovenije začeli s pogovorom o romski problematiki. In: Dnevnik. 16.09.2025. https://www.dnevnik.si/novice/slovenija/vlada-obisk-jugovzhodne-slovenije-zacela-s-pogovorom-o-romski-problematiki-2755379/

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovénie

New Book

septembre 16, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

A presentation of a new books about the Roma community “The Politics of Unbelonging” by authors Andreja Zevnik and Andrew Russell is being presented in the Provincial and Study Library of Murska Sobota, Slovenia.

The book shows, using examples from Slovenia and the EU, how national and European policies in practice consolidate the marginal status of Roma. Although Roma are constitutionally recognized in Slovenia, they lack actual political power for co-determination, which places them in a position of semi-inclusion. Media discourses and ineffective policies, often adopted without the participation of the Roma community, only exacerbate this situation.

Predstavitev nove knjige o romski skupnosti: The Politics of Unbelonging. In: Sobota Info. 16.09.2025. https://sobotainfo.com/dogodek/predstavitev-nove-knjige-o-romski-skupnosti-politics-unbelonging/308376