Roma
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Romania
Just how many Roma are there?
20 October 2011PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Romania
Panic in Giurgiu city
12 October 20111PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Czech Republic
In Varnsdorf, Roma are under pressure
5 October 20112Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Bulgaria
Collapse of a so-called social model
30 September 20113Trud Sofia -
Bulgaria
Unrest over Roma king
27 September 2011PresseuropDnevnik -
22 September 2011PresseuropJurnalul Naţional
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Belgium
East European gangs still strong
26 May 20111PresseuropDe Standaard -
27 April 20111PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet
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6 April 20114Le Monde Paris
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Poland
Restaurants not for Roms
27 January 20113PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Demographics
Romania 2050 will be Roma?
5 January 20113PresseuropGandul -
Editorial
Winter ceasefire
23 December 2010Presseurop -
Belgium – Bulgaria
Sofia and Brussels in Roma mix-up
6 December 2010PresseuropDe Morgen -
Romania
Disappearing EU Roma funds
12 November 2010PresseuropTrouw -
Minorities
My week as a gypsy
10 November 20102Adevărul Bucharest -
Czech Republic
No mercy for neo-Nazis
28 October 2010Respekt Prague -
Czech Republic
Anti-Roma arsonists get life
21 October 2010PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
20 October 2010PresseuropRomânia libera
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Integration
What happens to all the Roma funds?
13 October 2010PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
8 October 2010PresseuropLe Monde
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30 September 20101PresseuropDie Presse
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27 September 2010Les Echos Paris
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Netherlands
Caring mayor wants Roma register
23 September 2010PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
21 September 20102Adevărul Bucharest
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20 September 2010PresseuropLe Soir
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20 September 2010
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Roma
Axis of weevils
17 September 20102La Stampa Turin -
16 September 2010Libération Paris
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From Luxembourg
Paris, open to ridicule
16 September 2010PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
15 September 20105Presseurop
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15 September 20102Spiked London
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10 September 20106Revista 22 Bucharest
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10 September 20103Le Monde Paris
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Roma Expulsion
European double standards
6 September 20101PresseuropPresseurop -
Andalusia
New model home for the Roma
6 September 2010Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
6 September 201019The Independent London
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Slovakia
Random killing spree or race crime?
31 August 2010PresseuropSME -
30 August 2010PresseuropLidové noviny
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Press Review
European press thrashes France on Roma
26 August 20102Presseurop -
26 August 2010Sega Sofia
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26 August 2010
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Immigration
Romanians non grata at Paris summit
24 August 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
19 August 2010
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Romania
Rich as a Rom
4 August 2010PresseuropAdevărul -
29 July 2010PresseuropDer Freitag
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France / Romania
Roma in the firing line
28 July 20101La Croix Paris -
9 July 2010El Correo Bilbao
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6 July 2010PresseuropPolitiken
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Slovakia
Anti-Rom election campaign
5 May 2010PresseuropSME -
Computer piracy
Romanian hackers attack Daily Telegraph
16 April 2010PresseuropRomânia libera
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. 
In the wake of a spate of violent incidents, the French president has announced his intention to attack “the problem of the behaviour of certain elements in the Rom and itinerant community,” recommending that foreign troublemakers be deported to their country of origin — a controversial policy in both France and Romania, which highlights the European dimension of this issue. 
Take eight illiterate gitanas to perform a play by the great Spanish poet. The point of this experiment in Seville is to take at least the barb of artistic exclusion out of social segregation: a subject of debate for the European Encounters series at the Avignon Summer Festival.