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Slovenia, Roma and Funds – Some other News

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Slovenia, Roma and Funds – Some other News

Again an article about the funds allocated to municipalities with a Roma population in Slovenia. The current way these subsidies are calculated favours large municipalities, regardless of the number of Roma who live there. Now the government plans to change that. And several mayors are not for it.

In any case, Roma complain that the funds are not spend on purpose, and the mayors say that the funds are not sufficient to move the needle …

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Slovenia, Roma, and Funds

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Slovenia, Roma, and Funds

In Slovenia, there are twenty-five municipalities with a registered Roma population, among them eleven in Dolenjsko, Posavje, Bela Krajina and the Kočevsko-Ribinška area. From 2021, based on Article 20a of the Municipal Financing Act (ZFO-1), they are entitled to additional state funds (3.5 percent of eligible spending), the main criterion being the number of all residents of the municipality. This means that the bigger the municipality, the more money it gets, regardless of the number of Roma. This is not fair for smaller municipalities with a large number of Roma.

Roma complain that the funds are not spend on purpose…

Moldova News Eastern Europe

Moldova: Stipends

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Moldova: Stipends

93 Roma pupils and students will receive scholarships of 1,200 lei. The scholarships will be provided monthly by the Ministry of Education and Research. According to the authorities, the goal of the initiative is to reduce educational disparities and encourage young Roma to achieve academic success.

93 is not many compared to the Roma population of the country.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia and Roma Funds

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Slovenia and Roma Funds

The Slovenian government has allocated funds to municipalities where Roma live in Slovenia as part of the National Program of Actions for Roma for the period 2021-2030. In the municipality of Krško, they allocated 80’000 euros of their 700’000 allocation to raise awareness among the residents of the Roma settlement of Kerinov Grm. Apparently, the money went straight to a long-time builder for the municipality and a Roma councillor. This is not quite the purpose of these grants …

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Padua and Roma

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Padua and Roma

The city of Padua received 1 million euros for th integration of Romane children and adolescents. That’s nice, but that is also not much …

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine: Inclusion Program for Minorities

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Ukraine: Inclusion Program for Minorities

Aproject in the Lutsk region, “Stronger together: support and expansion of opportunities for national minorities in Lutsk during the war” financed in part by the Council of Europe, is aimed at creating a favorable and inclusive environment for national minorities in the community, helping to overcome challenges caused by the war, etc.

Resource meetings, psychological consultations, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and leadership workshops take place within the project. The target audience is representatives of national minorities (communities), internally displaced persons, representatives of the public sector who actively work with national minorities (communities).

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia and Roma Integration

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An interview with the Sociologist Jana Javornik on the situation of Roma in Slovenia where she rightly say that the situation will not improve wth further repressive measures.

She says: “Successes can only be seen in environments where trust is established with the Roma community. The result of long-term exclusion is distrust in social institutions and in everything non-Roma. There is no doubt that violence of all kinds is dangerous for both individuals and communities. Problems that are co-created, have been imposed for decades. There will be no coexistence and development with increased police presence, punitive measures and the reduction of social rights. They also contribute to less safe communities for all and the reduction of rights for all Repression, punitive and stigmatizing social policies never lead to integration, but deepen marginalization, segregation, mistrust, hatred and violence. We will all feel the consequences.”

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poznan and Roma

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Roma want to be treated with dignity as citizens and people – says Karolina Kwiatkowska, Communications and PR Director at the Central Council of Roma in Poland. A large number of Roma people live in Poznań. MOPR Poznań is trying to ensure that the integration between the Polish and Roma communities is smooth. One of the more difficult cases is the encampment on Lechicka Street.

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The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, has called on Finland to continue to honour its strong record in promoting and defending human rights, following a visit to the country from 23 to 26 September, which focused on the situation of Roma and migration and asylum issues.

Well, there is still room for improvement…

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Czechia: Meeting of Roma Coordinators

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A two-day meeting of regional coordinators for Roma affairs, civil members of the Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs, Roma advisers and field workers took place in Liberec. The aim of the event was education, exchange of experience and sharing of examples of good practice in the field of Roma integration in the Czech Republic. The emphasis was on communication and cooperation between all parties involved.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Interview with Vera Kopčič

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Vera Klopčič is an honorary member of the Association of Roma in Slovenia. Until her retirement, Vera Klopčič was employed at the Institute for Ethnic Issues. She devoted an important part of her career to the study of Roma communities in Europe and Slovenia. In 2007, within the framework of the institute, she published a book entitled Position of Roma in Slovenia: Romi and Gadže.

“We must encourage the study of culture, the development and preservation of language and identity even among the Roma themselves. Self-confident Roma will integrate into society more easily,”  she believes.

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Ribnica and Roma

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The Vice President of the Council of the Roma Community of the RS, Fatmir Bečiri, today visited three Roma settlements in the municipality of Ribnica. The council of the Roma community recently got involved in resolving the dispute between the municipality and the local Roma. The aim of the visit is to prove that it is possible to talk to the Roma and find solutions to their problems, Bečiri told the media during the visit.

The mayor of Ribnica said that Roma would not get drinking water uless they showed they wanted to integrate and send their chlcren to school.

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Croatia: Integration

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The “Join II” project brings activities aimed at the integration of the Roma community. Since March of this year, the Centre for Missing and Abused Children has continued to implement the “Join II” project, in cooperation with the Roma Resource Center (RRC). The goal of the project is to encourage the integration of the Roma community and strengthen social cohesion through diverse activities.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia and the Roma “Problem”

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An article whose title says it clearly: Integration in a ghetto? It is like learning to swim on dry land.

In brief, the article discusses the problematic of integration when some of the basics are simply not given.

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Slovenia: New Measures

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The Slovenian government is preparing several measures in the field of Roma issues. The Ministry of Labor announces the opening of new multi-purpose Roma centres and three new day centres for children from the Roma community, while the Ministry of Education announces several changes to the law on elementary schools.

Let’s see what this brings …

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Slovenia: Civil Initiative

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Since in their views, the state’s measures in the field of solving the Roma problem have been unsuccessful, the Regional Civil Initiative for solving the Roma problem demands that the government invite them to a meeting within a month. “We want to check whether they will accept the proposals formulated by the 11 mayors of the southeast region,” explained Silva Mesojedec: “If the government does not accept us, we will no longer prevent the creation of village guards and other forms of organizing residents.”

The proposal was refused on the grounds that it singled out a minority, i.e. was not conform to the constitution.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia: Another point of View

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An article that brings it to the point. It says that politicians and media speak as if the Slovenian side is doing everything for Roma, and now Roma themselves must take a step forward and prove themselves morally to the state.

Slovenian state institutions, from centres for social work through schools to ministries, do implement certain programs, but they are not coordinated among themselves and in most cases, they do not cooperate with the Roma when drawing up plans.

In reality, Roma often do not have a water supply or electricity in their settlements, nor are these legally regulated. Their children face discrimination in schools, the school system does not take into account their language needs and finally they are excluded due to failure, which is often the result of language problems. Thus, we blame the Roma for not sending their children to school, and throw out the Roma children who are in school.

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