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The Roma, Europe's pariahs
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Bulgaria
Collapse of a so-called social model
30 September 20113Trud Sofia -
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 -
Romania
Disappearing EU Roma funds
12 November 2010PresseuropTrouw -
Minorities
My week as a gypsy
10 November 20102Adevărul Bucharest -
Integration
What happens to all the Roma funds?
13 October 2010PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
10 September 20106Revista 22 Bucharest
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6 September 201019The Independent London
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Andalusia
New model home for the Roma
6 September 2010Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
Roma Expulsion
European double standards
6 September 20101PresseuropPresseurop -
Press Review
European press thrashes France on Roma
26 August 20102Presseurop -
26 August 2010Sega Sofia
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Immigration
France joins the heavy gang
19 August 20102Le Monde Paris -
13 August 20102Le Monde Paris
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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 -
6 July 2010PresseuropPolitiken
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Slovakia
Anti-Rom election campaign
5 May 2010PresseuropSME -
Editorial
Pariah nation
9 April 20102Presseurop -
Human rights
Amnesty demands EU action for Roma
7 April 2010PresseuropAdevărul -
Discrimination
Roma and Africans not welcome
10 December 20092PresseuropIrish Examiner -
Czech Republic
Apartheid begins in the school
8 December 2009Respekt Prague -
Hungary
Forced integration for Roma?
27 October 2009Heti Világgazdaság Budapest -
Slovakia
EU to fund anti-Roma patrols
26 August 2009PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
18 August 20093Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt
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Czech Republic
Arsonists arrested, national honour restored
14 August 2009PresseuropLidové noviny -
Minorities
Financial crisis misery for Roma people
10 August 2009Financial Times London -
Czech Republic
Roma reality show ends in Prague
4 August 2009PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Portrait
Far from the madding crowd
21 July 2009România libera Bucharest -
Hungary
Jobbik's anti-Roma crusade
15 June 20093Respekt Prague
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. 
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.
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. 
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. 
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. 
Nicolas Sarkozy has put France squarely in Europe's extremist camp with his new hardline stance on security and immigration. But other countries have found far less confrontational answers to the same problems 
In light of the absence of progress on the issue of Roma integration, host countries and the countries of origin are continuing to bounce accusations and blame back and forth. Brussels, meanwhile, is exasperated by the fact that the projects it is financing are either advancing too slowly, or not at all. 
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. 
A third of Roma children in the Czech Republic attend special schools for the mentally handicapped. A situation against which a number of associations are speaking out, and which ends up backfiring on the state when it has to foot the social and economic bill. 
The Hungarian press is heatedly debating what to do about Roma, the main perpetrators – and victims – of the recent crime wave in Hungary. Essayist Eszter Babarczy makes a modest proposal in the weekly HVG: put the kids in boarding school to help them make their way in Hungarian society.
In the seemingly law abiding town of Tatarszentgyörgy, prejuduces against the Roma communinty have spilled over into violence. It would seem that even the local police are complicit in attacks on families, which has prompted the national government to collaborate with the FBI to catch the perpetrators. But this is not an isolated example, the political trend suggests that anti-Roma racism is on the increase. 
The Financial Times reports that the estimated 8m Roma in Europe have been particularly hard hit by the financial crisis. Already the most vulnerable economic group, this trend has not only increased their financial woes but also prompted hostility against them from various quarters. 
Enamoured of a Gypsy woman and a countryside that reminds him of 19th-century novels, British writer and journalist William Blacker spends half the year living with Transylvanian peasants. Portrait of a man between two worlds. 
In Hungary, far right party Jobbik won 15% of the vote and three seats at the European elections. A remarkable success, especially in the light of an election campaign that offered little more than aggressive anti-Roma rhetoric and virulent criticism of Hungary's national government. Cartoons
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