Category Archives: News Eastern Europe

Czech Republic: Holocaust Survivors Disagree with Anti-Refugee Sentiment

Published by:

Czech Republic: Holocaust Survivors Disagree with Anti-Refugee Sentiment

Czech Holocaust Rroma survivors and relative of the victims disagree with the anti-refugee sentiment that is prevalent in that country.

Read the speech!

Lety, again

Published by:

Lety, again

A never ending story since 20 years. A Pig farm on the site of the Lety concentration camp where many Rroma were deported from to Auschwitz and other death camps.

After 20 years, this could have been resolved …

Bulgaria: Garmen again

Published by:

Bulgaria: Garmen again

Residents of Garmen, Bulgaria renewed their protests at “illegal” Rroma houses. Last time this occurred, this resulted in a several manifestations, assaults, and in a plethora of racist articles and statements.

This needs to be followed.

Crime Boss in Denmark

Published by:

Crime Boss in Denmark

A crime boss who happens to be also a Rrom from Croatia can stay in Denmark. He is a criminal and claims to be the boss of Rroma in that country.

Well, as one says in the Balkans, he was under the bridge. And he is a criminal and should be treated as such. Ethnicity has lost nothing here.

Poland – Gdansk: Pogroms

Published by:

Football hooligans in Gdansk attacked a Rroma compound close to the football stadium in Gdansk. The police, in spite of warnings did not intervene at all. That football hooligans are often closet Nazis is an unfortunate fact, but that the police doesn’t do a thing, is not acceptable.

Garmen … Again?

Published by:

Garmen … Again?

Garmen, a small city in Bulgaria, was at the centre of a controversy on “illegal” Rroma housing. After nearly a year of silence, more news from that town.

Bad!

Teenage Pregnancy in Romania

Published by:

Teenage Pregnancy in Romania

A reportage on teenage pregnancies in Romania, and its inevitable conclusion that it affects many Rroma. While it is true that many young Rroma have children early (very early), ethnicity may not be the root cause.

No sexual education, no contraception are available in the countryside, and in addition, several of the free churches that are active in those regions are adamantly against both, resulting in a new phenomenon of large families among traditionally small Rroma ones.

Bulgaria: Monitoring Integration

Published by:

Bulgaria: Monitoring Integration

The Bulgarian government approved a report monitoring the progress of Rroma integration in 2015… Would be curious to see it, as the situation has declined severely for Rroma in that country.

Glasgow – a school full of Rroma

Published by:

Glasgow – a school full of Rroma

The fate of a school in Glasgow where almost none of the 222 enrolled children speaks English and where the majority of them (181) are Rroma children from Slovakia and Romania makes the headlines in the UK.

While the Times is relatively neutral, the Daily Mail and others are really rabid. Rroma are being used to influence the vote in June, no doubt.

Radnevo in Bulgaria

Published by:

Radnevo in Bulgaria

More on the clashes between the police and anti-Rroma protesters following an alleged attack by Rroma on non-Rroma in that city.

Dangerous and SHAME!

Exhibition on Rroma Holocaust

Published by:

Exhibition on Rroma Holocaust

An exhibition on the Holocaust of Rroma in Bohemia and other Czech lands is opening this week. Good one speaks about it, as the Czech lands were nearly totally cleaned of Rroma in World War Two. And not all by German Nazis, by far not.

New Network of Diasporas

Published by:

New Network of Diasporas

A new Network of Diasporas has been started at an EU conference, networking Jews, Armenians, Rroma, and Assyrians.

rroma.org
fr_FRFR