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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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
