TeatarR, the first and only Roma theatre in Croatia, is visiting Sisak with the play “Prison Flowers” directed by Zvjezdana Bubnjar. After the premiere in Zagreb at the end of November this year, the Sisak audience will have the opportunity to see it on Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. at Theatre 21.
The person who punched and killed Aleš Šutar is 20-year-old Samira Šiljić, who allegedly provoked one of the guests of the bar before. According to unofficial information, the 20-year-old, who had already been convicted in the past and was also placed in the Radeče reformatory at a critical time, was incriminated by at least five witnesses before the investigating judge as part of the judicial investigation.
Bad.
The Dolenjska People’s Initiative, which brings together six people’s initiatives from the Dolenjska region and one from the Ljubljana region, last week presented a proposal for a program for the social and work activation of employees, which would also regulate the employment of Roma. Basically, Roma would need to enrol in special training centres where the unemployed would gain experience and vocational education, and financial social assistance would be tied to participation.
The low level of education among Roma is seen in Slovenia as a large issue in integrating Roma in the workforce. There have been efforts to better the situation, but they are only a few. The Novo Mesto Development and Education Centre has been working intensively with the education of Roma for the past twenty-five years, ever since they began to more seriously include them in the adult primary school program.
The Republic of Slovenia thanks the Romani Union Murska Sobota Association with a state decoration for its invaluable social contribution in the field of legal regulation of the special rights of the Roma community, and thus for its contribution to the development of an open and inclusive society and for strengthening intercultural dialogue and respect for human rights.
Nick Ferenc is an actor and musician who breaks stereotypes about Roma in the Czech public space. He studied alternative and puppet theatre at DAMU, dubbed the character Tibor in the English version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and is heading to the new series Oddíol B, directed by Petr Kolečko. “We Roma are not portrayed as characters, but as Roma,” he says in the podcast Režim neršit.
The Roma media house will not be built in the near future. The project, which was part of the action plans for the Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Participation of Roma by 2030 for the years 2025-2027, no longer appears in the draft of the updated document. Changes to action plans were approved by government on Wednesday.
A newly established Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for the Inclusion of Marginalized Roma Communities (MRK) is to contribute to the implementation of more effective public policies and coordination of activities of the Government Office (GO) of the Slovak Republic, the plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Roma communities and other state bodies in the field of Roma inclusion. The proposal for the establishment of the body and its statute was approved by the government on Wednesday.
Let’s see what it does …
Bujanovac will host the Roma Ball on January 15 – an event that celebrates music, tradition and the spirit of togetherness. The ceremony will be held in the large Agimi Imperial hall, and the organizers expect a spectacular evening filled with top-notch dancing and elegance.
The final conference of the “Delimo” mentoring program was held in Belgrade. It is an initiative implemented by the Roma Women’s Center Bibija and the Roma Students’ Initiative, with the support of UNICEF, with the aim of strengthening the leadership and activism of Roma girls through mentoring and intergenerational exchange of knowledge and experiences.
Lutsk, Ukraine, takes steps towards equal access to education for Roma children and youth. Educational programs, after-school activities, and support for vulnerable families are the focus of the city’s policy on the integration of national communities.
Črnomelj Roma councillor Božo Rozman, who was elected in the 2022 local elections, has submitted an irrevocable resignation from the position of councillor, which was also announced to the members of the Črnomelj municipal council. As a result, his mandate in the working body for monitoring the situation of the Roma community also ended.
In his resignation statement, he stated that he was leaving the position for personal reasons. Unofficially, he allegedly did not have enough understanding in the Roma community and could not withstand the pressure.
A documentary from Arte about a village in Romania with a large Nato base.
There was very little news in the French press about Roma this week. Charlie Hebdo, one satirical French paper published an article about Stolipinovo, the Roma Mahala in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. As usual in France, unfortunately not well informed. Other than that, In Nantes, a collective is trying to help Roma.
The Roma Cultural Center Pančevo in the Vojvodina, Serbia, delivered school supplies to children who are studying “Roma language with elements of Roma national culture” at the “Braća Novakov” Elementary School in Paragami near Bačka Palanka.
An article on the Roma music group Romano Glauso from the Roma settlement of Pušča near Murska Sobota, which according to the article, not only enriches the musical landscape, but also actively builds intercultural dialogue with a modern interpretation of tradition and contributes to greater understanding and coexistence in society.
Another article about the problems around Roma settlements in Slovenia. This time it is about the municipalities of Grosuplje and Semič, and mainly in the settlements Smrekec and Sovinek. Noise, shooting, illegal fires, and similar issues.
A memorial event was held in Podpoľanie at the Jewish cemetery in Zvolen on Tuesday, December 9, as part of the Ma bisteren! project dedicated to commemorating the Roma genocide during the Holocaust on the occasion of International Human Rights Day. It commemorates the fate of Roma murdered during World War II.
The Local Action Plan for the Roma Community in the Praga-Południe District 2025–2030 finished a first preliminary project in 2025. The project’s main goal was to increase the level of social and civic integration of the Roma community living in the Praga-Południe district. As a result of the project, a local action plan was developed, outlining specific directions of support and actions that address the community’s real needs. The project’s nature was participatory, meaning that all stakeholders were actively involved in its development: representatives of the Roma community, their neighbours, residents of the district, representatives of the local administration, NGOs, uniformed services, and other public institutions.
Dr. Joanna Talewicz, president of the “W Stronę Dialogu” [towards Dialogue] Foundation, has been fighting for years to stop the Roma community from being perceived through the prism of folklore and romantic yet harmful notions. In a conversation with Andrzej Grupa, she discusses why the label of “expert on Roma issues” began to bother her, how the foundation’s new campaign, “Rozprowadzemy stereotypy o Rom(k)ach,” exposes prejudice, and how building community and alliances is the safest “insurance policy” for uncertain times in Poland.
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