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A Labour councillor in the UK made a comment on social media stating that “Hitler had the right idea” about travellers.
He certainly has turned his brain off at some point.

– Labour councillor denies Facebook Hitler remark. In: BBC News. 08.04.2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-47853418

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Espagne

– Spanish police brutally end street fight between Roma travellers with vicious kicks, punches and baton charges in shocking footage taken in a busy Madrid square. In: Daily Mail. 09.04.2019. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6902755/Spanish-police-break-vicious-fight-Roma-travellers.html

Spanish police break up a vicious fight between Roma travellers

Nouvelles suisses

Travellers in Switzerland

mars 15, 2019 Published by: RF

The canton of Berne is setting aside quite a bit of money to create a permanent camping site for travellers in Villeroltigen. Good, except that they segregate between “Swiss” and “Foreign” travellers. And the SVP, the populist right wing party already stated that they would do a referendum on the topic.

– 3,3 Millionen Franken für ausländische Fahrende. In: Tele Bärn. 13.03.2019. https://www.telebaern.tv/telebaern-news/33-millionen-franken-fuer-auslaendische-fahrende-134205439?utm_source=shared-facebook&fbclid=IwAR2P9OnGYhvOIxFBNmx9nCOzjU1tFOfRMqlH2qAhVGUrkRe2fSWMUmI7DLk

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Church of England

février 23, 2019 Published by: RF

The Church of England is making efforts to help Roma and travellers. Well, better late than never.

– Church of England urged to make land available to Gypsies. In: The Guardian. 22.02.2019. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/22/church-of-england-urged-to-make-land-available-to-gypsies

Nouvelles suisses

Camping Sites in Switzerland

février 20, 2019 Published by: RF

An article on the perennial Swiss issue of sites for travellers with a mention of the fact that Roma are still not recognised in that country (but Sinti are) …

– Mehr Halteplätze für Fahrende. In: Der Bote. 19.02.2019. https://www.bote.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/mehr-halteplaetze-fuer-fahrende;art46447,1157032

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Housing Crisis

février 19, 2019 Published by: RF

How the city of Bristol is trying to force travellers out of caravans and into houses and flats.

– Road to nowhere: Bristol’s hidden housing crisis. In: The Bristol Cable. https://thebristolcable.org/2019/02/road-to-nowhere-bristols-gypsy-and-traveller/

Road to nowhere: Bristol's hidden housing crisis - The Bristol Cable

Europe

Women Conference

février 16, 2019 Published by: RF

Announcement for the Romani woman conference March 25-27.

– 7th International Roma Women’s Conference: SAVE THE DATE! In: Council of Europe. https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-and-travellers/-/open-call-for-the-7th-roma-women-conference

7th International Roma Womenâs Conference

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

UK, Racism, and Roma

février 14, 2019 Published by: RF

The story of a young Romni in School in the UK.

– “We the youth must never give up the fight for Roma equality”. In: The Travellers’ Times. 07.02.2019. https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/ytt/news/2018/02/we-youth-must-never-give-fight-roma-equality?fbclid=IwAR3Ws_-zv41P3ms9WQ0SkHBP7rQ0qhOUJ-EeB38RWSWU1MIZdf8vqIyORwU

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

UK Media and Roma

février 12, 2019 Published by: RF

An editorial on how the UK TV presents Roma and Travellers.

– Patronising and totally false: my despair at TV about Gypsies. In: The Guardian. 11.02.2019. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/11/patronising-and-totally-false-my-despair-at-tv-about-gypsies-a-very-british-history-bbc

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

UK and Travellers

février 9, 2019 Published by: RF

More on the plans of the UK government to criminalise illegal camping by travellers.

– Why the government has a ‘lazy and populist’ approach towards unauthorised traveller sites. In: Environment Journal. 08.02.2019. https://environmentjournal.online/articles/why-the-government-has-a-lazy-and-populist-approach-towards-unauthorised-traveller-sites/
– Travellers say they ‘live in fear’ as government plans tough new powers for unauthorised encampments. In: Get Surrey. 08.02.2019. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/travellers-say-live-fear-government-15797230

Why the government has a ‘lazy and populist’ approach towards unauthorised traveller sites - Environment Journal

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Jail ?????

février 7, 2019 Published by: RF

A new plan in the UK foresees the possibility of jailing travellers for setting up illegal camps.
REALLY???

– CAMP CRACKDOWN. Travellers could be jailed for setting up unauthorised camps under new plans from Home Secretary Sajid Javid. In: The Sun. 07.02.2019. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8370697/travellers-jailed-illegal-camps-new-plans-sajid-javid/

Travellers could be JAILED for setting up illegal camps under Govt plans

Nouvelles suisses

Switzerland: A FIRST!!!

janvier 15, 2019 Published by: RF

There seems to be change in the air. For the first time, politicians were condemned for racism against Roma. In this case, the leaders of the youth fraction of the SVP, the rightist populist party in Switzerland were condemned for a cartoon against Roma travellers.
A first, and hopefully, this will slow down these kind of actions.

– «Kritik ist erlaubt, aber mit Augenmass». In: Der Bund. 14.01.2019. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/chefs-der-jungen-svp-bern-wegen-wahlplakat-verurteilt/story/20109238
– Roma-Organisation und GfbV begrüssen Verurteilung der Jungen SVP Bern wegen Rassismus. In: GfbV. 14.01.2019. https://www.gfbv.ch/de/medien/medienmitteilungen/junge-svp/

Nouvelles suisses

Basle and Travellers

janvier 5, 2019 Published by: RF

Basel opened a new camping site for travellers recently, and thus closed the old provisional site. Well, not quite … Seems that some travellers were allowed to stay there.

– Zoff um ehemaligen Fahrenden-Platz. In: Tele Basel. 03.01.2019. https://telebasel.ch/2019/01/03/zoff-um-ehemaligen-fahrenden-platz/

Zoff um ehemaligen Fahrenden-Platz - Telebasel

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Scottish Travellers

décembre 28, 2018 Published by: RF

An unrecognised minority in Scotland in spite of its long presence there. Studies in the Irish Travellers have shown that they too form nowadays a distinct ethnic group, even though their history is shorter. So 900 years should be sufficient …

– The last “acceptable” prejudice. In: The Overtake. 27.12.2018. https://theovertake.com/~beta/scottish-travellers-in-crisis/