Roma
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The Netherlands: Immigrants tangled up with Turkish gangs
17 May 201326831 De Standaard Brussels -
Minorities: For George Soros, Roma are victims of the crisis
16 May 201316329PresseuropDilema Veche -
European Union: The Roma: Europe’s guilty conscience
8 April 201315624PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Slovakia: ‘We can favour the Roma’
22 February 201375PresseuropSME -
Romania: Expelled Roma will keep coming back
18 September 201219121 Evenimentul zilei Bucharest -
France : Blue blood defends Gypsies
31 August 201224511 Libération Paris -
France: Job market partially opens to Romanians and Bulgarians
23 August 20122835PresseuropLe Monde -
Ukraine: Roma flee to the “reservation”
5 July 20121892 Aktuálnĕ.cz Prague -
Minorities: Roma still on the margins
24 May 2012594PresseuropRomânia libera -
Czech Republic: In Varnsdorf, Roma are under pressure
5 October 20111262 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
Bulgaria: Collapse of a so-called social model
30 September 20111763 Trud Sofia -
Belgium: East European gangs still strong
26 May 20111PresseuropDe Standaard -
Sweden: Ombudsman demands more protection for Roma
27 April 20111PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
Hungary: Roma hunting season set to continue
6 April 20113784 Le Monde Paris -
Poland: Restaurants not for Roms
27 January 2011213PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Demographics: Romania 2050 will be Roma?
5 January 20113PresseuropGandul -
Editorial: Winter ceasefire
23 December 201016Presseurop -
Belgium - Bulgaria: Sofia and Brussels in Roma mix-up
6 December 201011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Romania: Disappearing EU Roma funds
12 November 2010PresseuropTrouw -
Minorities: My week as a gypsy
10 November 201012311 Adevărul Bucharest -
Czech Republic: No mercy for neo-Nazis
28 October 2010337 Respekt Prague -
Czech Republic : Anti-Roma arsonists get life
21 October 2010PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Roma: Commission won't sue Paris after all
20 October 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Integration: What happens to all the Roma funds?
13 October 201028PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
France: Illegal police database targeted Roma
8 October 2010PresseuropLe Monde -
ROMA: Brussels goes soft on Sarkozy
30 September 20101PresseuropDie Presse -
Debates: Diversity and solidarity - happy bed-fellows?
27 September 201076 Les Echos Paris -
Netherlands: Caring mayor wants Roma register
23 September 2010PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Debate: Will France and Italy capsize the Union?
21 September 2010422 Adevărul Bucharest -
Roma: Belgium joins caravan of shame
20 September 2010PresseuropLe Soir -
Bertrams, Het Parool (Amsterdam): Gypsy concerto
20 September 201033 -
Roma: Axis of weevils
17 September 2010602 La Stampa Turin -
Roma: Just how far will France go?
16 September 201053 Libération Paris -
From Luxembourg: Paris, open to ridicule
16 September 201025PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
Roma: Brussels finally takes France to task
15 September 2010655 Presseurop -
France: Sarkozy's tough and toothless war
15 September 2010642 Spiked London -
Opinion : Roma must take control of their destiny
10 September 20101466 Revista 22 Bucharest -
Roma: Right question, wrong answer
10 September 2010423 Le Monde Paris -
Roma Expulsion: European double standards
6 September 2010251PresseuropPresseurop -
Andalusia: New model home for the Roma
6 September 2010336 Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
Roma: Sarkozy is doing the right thing
6 September 201030119 The Independent London -
Slovakia: Random killing spree or race crime?
31 August 2010PresseuropSME -
Roma: Prague accuses France of racism
30 August 2010PresseuropLidové noviny -
Press Review: European press thrashes France on Roma
26 August 2010782 Presseurop -
Roma: No end to hypocrisy from Paris and Brussels
26 August 201098 Sega Sofia -
Stephff, The Nation (Bangkok): Monsieur Sarkozy’s holiday
26 August 201043 -
Immigration: Romanians non grata at Paris summit
24 August 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Christo Komarnitski, Sega (Sofia): Hop it, Madame!
19 August 201013 -
Romania: Rich as a Rom
4 August 2010PresseuropAdevărul -
Germany: 12,000 Roma to be deported to Kosovo
29 July 2010PresseuropDer Freitag
Are Bulgarian immigrants abusing the welfare system? Several cases of benefit fraud have sparked controversy. But often, the suspected fraudsters are themselves simply victims of organised crime networks. 
While Paris is toughening up its policy on repatriating Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria, some of them are doing quite well out of it by heading back to France – notably from what they pocket for leaving France “voluntarily”. 
A scion of affluent neighbourhoods, educated at an English public school and currently a law student, nothing predestined Louis de Gouyon Matignon for the presidency of an association that protects Gypsy culture. Yet, this grandson of a marquis has embraced the cause and the religion of the Manouche, French travellers. 
Of all the minorities living in Ukraine, the Roma are perhaps the most impoverished. Many of them were driven from their camps on the eve of the Euro 2012 football championship and most live in slums on the fringes of large cities, in misery and indifference of the authorities and other inhabitants. A report. 
About half a kilometre from the German border, for several weeks now Varnsdorf has been the scene of far-right demonstrations against the Roma minority – about 500 people in a town of 16,000. The demonstrations bring into sharp focus the tensions between the townspeople and a community whose integration is still a problem. 
The riots that rocked the village of Katounitsa and several cities across Bulgaria have not only marked a sudden upsurge in anti-Roma sentiment: an anthropologist argues that they are also a symptom of a sick society which has been unable to overcome the scourge of clientelism. 
At a time when the EU has called on member states to make greater efforts to integrate Roma living on their territories, Viktor Orbán’s government, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, continues to turn a blind eye to the ongoing campaign to intimidate "Gypsy criminals" conducted by far-right Magyar groups. 
What’s life like for the Roma in Romania? To find out, an Adevărul journalist dressed up as a gypsy for a week. He didn’t experience any direct discrimination, just general contempt. 
A minimum of 22 years in prison for burning down a Roma family home… Respekt argues that the sentence meted out to four Czech arsonists will set an example in the national and European-wide drive to combat the extreme right. 
Tensions between regions in Belgium and Italy, and the expulsion of the Roma from France have highlighted an underlying conflict in societies that wish to be both generous and socially diverse. According to two French economists, it is a tug-of-war that also has the potential to undermine the European Union. 
The Roma affair is evidence of an existential crisis in the European Union. A Romanian editorialist argues that it highlights the degree to which certain governments, on the look-out for easy votes, now hold the EU and its values in contempt. 
Nicolas Sarkozy defiance of Europe — loudly supported by Silvio Berlusconi — isn't just about the Roma, it is an attack on the community's core values and the right of the public to know what is being done in their name, says columnist Barbara Spinelli 
Threatened with legal action by the Commission, with precious little backing from her neighbours, France is suffering the fallout from her president’s bellicose anti-Roma rhetoric. But the other Roma-deporting countries could conceivably help her out of this fix. 
On 14 September the European Commission announced it might well initiate infringement proceedings against France for its Roma expulsion policy. The European press lauds the decision. 
The expulsion of the Roma is not a simple case of racism, but rather a policy that betrays the profound crisis of the French Republic, argues an English civil liberties campaigner. 
There is no doubt that France is wrong to deport members of a largely powerless minority from its territory, but a Romanian writer suggests the Rom community will have to give up the negative thinking that has made it vulnerable in Romania and elsewhere in the EU.
Rightly reviled on 9 September by the European Parliament for its manhandling of the Roma, still and all France has raised a question – what is their place in Europe? – that the Union can’t just ignore in the hopes that it will simply go away. 
Marginalised in several countries, recently expelled in great numbers from France, the Roma enjoy a relatively safe haven in the south of Spain. Other European countries would do well to take a lesson from this example, notes the Polish weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. 
As interior ministers from several EU states gather to discuss immigration in Paris, French president Nicolas Sarkozy's drive against illegal Roma settlement has been vilified at home and abroad. A British columnist takes his defence. 
All Europe has its eyes on France as it “repatriates” Roma to Romania and Bulgaria, and most deplore what they are seeing.
The "humanitarian" repatriation of several hundred Roma from France to Romania and Bulgaria is "cynical and demagogical", insists Bulgarian editorialist Svetoslav Terziev. And worse yet, it offers nothing toward solving the problem of their eventual integration. - 1 of 2
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