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OSCE warns against stigmatizing Roma

Warsaw, 31/08/2010- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) head in Warsaw has voiced concern over expulsions of Roma (Gypsies) from France.

Ambassador Janez Lenarcic said he shared concerns about recent developments in France affecting Roma migrants and Travelers, and warned that such actions risked fueling intolerance and discrimination. He said he was troubled by the approach of French authorities to the matter of the legal status of Roma migrants in the aftermath of riots by some French Travelers. The riots followed the fatal shooting by police of a member of their community.

"Recent developments in France come against the background of continuing and growing intolerance toward Roma in a number of countries, as well as insufficient efforts by many OSCE participating States to create conditions for the sustainable integration of Roma individuals and communities," said Lenarcic.

Roma debate tops seminar agenda

27/08/2010 - The 27 EU commissioners will meet for a working seminar, on 1 and 2 September, at the Val Duchesse castle in the South of Brussels. There will consequently not be a formal meeting of the college on 1 September. According to a Commission spokesman, this retreat aims first and foremost to "take stock of the first six months in office" of the Barroso II team, especially in the context of implementing the Lisbon Treaty. The commissioners will also review the "political issues addressed by the Commission this summer," particularly the situation in Pakistan following the severe floods that have devastated the country for the past month and the controversial matter of the expulsion of Roma from France.

Bulgarian Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva (international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response) will brief fellow commissioners on her visit to Pakistan and Luxembourg's Commissioner Viviane Reding (justice, fundamental rights and citizenship) will discuss the analysis being conducted by the executive to determine whether the treatment of the Roma in France conforms to EU law. The last item on the agenda concerns the Commission's "policy initiatives" for the autumn and the work programme for 2011. The seminar will begin with the discussion on the Roma, followed by Pakistan, the two "headline issues" of the day.

Link: http://www.europolitics.info/institutions/roma-debate-tops-seminar-agenda-art279527-36.html

The Roma: Europe's Favorite Scapegoat

29/08/2010 - Peggy Hollinger and Chris Bryant of the Financial Times put their fingers on what’s behind the current uproar over Europe’s Roma population: the group is “an easy target for politicians seeking to distract attention from problems at home by playing on fears over security.”

That strategy was stage center in early August when France’s conservative government shipped several hundred Roma back to Romania and French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged he would bulldoze 300 Roma camps over the next several weeks.

Europe is certainly in need of distraction these days. Sarkozy’s poll numbers are dismal and his administration is plagued by scandals. The economic crisis has seen France’s debt soar, and European governments have instituted savage austerity programs that are filling the jobless rolls from Dublin to Athens.

Since most politicians would rather not examine the cause of the economic crisis roiling the continent—many were complicit in dismantling the checks and balances that eventually led to the current recession—“criminal gypsies” come in very handy. France’s crackdown was sparked by an angry demonstration in Saint-Aignan following the death of a young “traveler” [slang for a member of the Roma] at the hands of police.

MEPs call for parliament debate on situation for Roma

The exiling of German-born Roma children to Kosovo, the military-style dismantling of Roma camps in France, the massive expulsions, and the encouragements of an Italian minister to carry out openly xenophobe policies, are sad events for the European Union - ALDE president Guy Verhofstadt.

24/08/2010 - ALDE president Guy Verhofstadt has added his voice to criticism over the French demolition of Roma camps and the repatriation of hundreds of people to Romania and Bulgaria. The former Belgian prime minister called for a parliamentary debate on the situation for Roma people in Europe once MEPs return to work for the Strasbourg plenary in September. His comments came after the French government expelled some 200 Roma, and continued to tear down informal camps.

Earlier in August, French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced plans to dismantle 300 of the camps within the next three months as part of a "war" on delinquency. It also emerged on Tuesday that the French government will hold a ministerial meeting on immigration on 6 September, where the Roma issue is likely to be discussed.

FOCUS ON FRANCE

France24 - French ministers defend Roma evictions

31/08/2010 - France's Immigration Minister Eric Besson (pictured) and European Affairs Minister Pierre Lellouche defended France's tough policy towards Roma people in Brussels Tuesday as the European Commission voiced concerns.

Following Paris’ recent crackdown on Roma migrants which saw illegal encampments dismantled and people forcibly returned to their home countries, tthe European Commission has stepped up the pressure on the French government to offer an explanation for its actions.

France’s Minister for European Affairs, Pierre Lellouche, and Eric Besson, the country's immigration minister, travelled to Brussels on Tuesday to meet with the European commissioner in charge of internal affairs, Cecilia Malmström, and European Commissioner for Justice Vivian Reding.

EUobserver: French ministers lash out at 'grotesque' criticisms of Roma policy

Brussels, 31/08/2010 - French government ministers in Brussels on Tuesday (31 August) to defend the country's Roma expulsion policy lashed out at what they described as "grotesque" attacks and mischaracterisations of the country's round-ups launched in July.

Immigration minister Eric Besson, speaking to journalists in Brussels after the meeting with EU commissioners, attacked such criticisms of the French policy calling them "needless and scandalous accusations."

His colleague, Europe minister Pierre Lellouche, described the meeting with the EU executive as "frank, far-reaching and constructive," but hit out at the "numerous unacceptable caricatures" of France.

Read more on http://euobserver.com/9/30705/

Deutsche Welle: France deports more Roma in defiance of international criticism

27/08/2010 - Around 300 Roma departed from airports in Paris and Lyon on Thursday in the latest wave of what the French government calls a voluntary repatriation scheme. The flights bring the total number of Roma expelled from France this year to more than 8,000.

French police also dismantled a campsite in Lille as part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's major crackdown on crime that began earlier this month. Police have targeted the Roma community, along with other itinerant groups.

The crackdown has sparked major criticism at home and abroad. Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said Sarkozy's policies had left a "stain of shame" on the French flag and were a "national indignity."

Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet split over controversial crackdown on Gypsies

31/08/2010 - France's controversial crackdown on gypsies is now exposing cracks in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government. Two top Cabinet ministers have voiced concern about the government's accelerated expulsions of Roma, also known as gypsies, to their home countries.

The prime minister admitted to a 'malaise' in Mr Sarkozy's conservative camp over the crackdown, which has sparked criticism by the Vatican and the UN. Interior minister Brice Hortefeux said the 'legitimate and necessary' dismantling of Roma camps and expulsions of people would continue.

He said: 'It's not a question of stigmatising this or that population. 'We can't close our eyes to the reality,' he said, citing soaring crime by Roma people and saying they were being treated as citizens of fellow EU members Romania and Bulgaria - not as an ethnic group.

French Roma moves and the EU dimension

31/08/ 2010 - France’s immigration and Europe ministers have been discussing the controversial repatriation of Roma from French territory with the European Justice and Home Affairs commissioners. Brussels is assessing whether the deportations breach EU law. As citizens of Romania, mostly, Roma have a right to travel to other EU countries, but must have employment to stay more than three months legally in France.

Analyst Anais Faure Atger with the Centre for European Policy Studies told euronews: “The Commission’s reaction can be qualified as slow. It came after the Council of Europe’s and the United Nations’ reaction. But it can also be called prudent and firm. Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said some governments’ positions were openly discriminatory and provocative.”

Italy’s interior minister earlier this month said he would continue to push for EU clearance to expel citizens of other EU states who live solely off state benefits. France will host a meeting on migration on September 6.

Link: http://www.euronews.net/2010/08/31/french-roma-moves-and-the-eu-dimension/

Amnesty International: Sarkozy Stigmatizes Roma People

27/08/2010 - As France continues its crackdown on the Roma community, human rights organization Amnesty International said President Nicolas Sarkozy risked stigmatizing the minority group.

"French officials should be working to fight discrimination, rather than making inflammatory statements linking entire communities to alleged criminality," the organization said in a statement. Amnesty is alarmed that the rhetoric "could perpetuate negative stereotypes which contribute to the stigmatization of and discrimination against Roma and travelers."

The organization said it is troubled that some Roma are being returned from France to their countries of origin in a context of statements by the French government suggesting links between Roma and criminality. Amnesty International called on the French authorities to focus on fully implementing its own legislation and provide adequate halting sites and protection of the housing rights of all.

France urges EU solidarity for expelled Roma

30/08/2010 - Children and European solidarity are being linked to France’s Roma expulsion policy — with illegal encampments lying in tatters. Meetings between national and EU officials are being planned — one confirmed for Tuesday. The French government wants to discuss economic and social integration in the Roma’s countries of origin, mostly Romania and Bulgaria.

In a statement on the closure of the camps, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said: “Twenty-five years ago, Romania and Bulgaria and other countries were not in the EU, and the Berlin Wall had not fallen. With Europe now in existence, it is up to each country to integrate its people. It melts my heart to see them — not only the Roma but them in particular — treated badly, exploited, children drugged so as to appear ill in order to invite pity; there is a real oppression and even enslavement of these populations. It does not in the least amuse me. How to remedy this? Through my resignation? I thought about it!”

Czech Foreign Minister Opposes France’s Roma Deportation

28/08/2010 - The Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has opposed the repatriation of Roma from France and voiced his concerns that the policy of the French President was made on racial grounds.

“The way in which France’s President Nicolas Sarcozy is chasing Roma citizens away is in contrary to the spirit and rules of the European Union. How could one not suspect the involvement of racist views,” Schwarzenberg said, as cited by the Czech daily “Lidove noviny”.

He has also expressed regret that the European debates on the Roma question are kept without the participation of the new EU member states, one of which is the Czech Republic. “To lead these discussions without the countries where the problem roots is strange and wrong,” he said.

EUobserver: Paris urges Brussels to intervene in Roma question

Brussels, 25/08/2010 - After weeks of carefully staying in the background of the Roma expulsion question, the European Commission has been shoved to the forefront of the issue after French Prime Minister Francois Fillon called on President Jose Manuel Barroso to co-ordinate the subject at the EU level.

While warning member states to ensure that any expulsions are done on a "case-by-case basis" and in line with European law, the commission has in the past few weeks consistently argued that it has no responsibility in the area.

But in the wake of an avalanche of criticism in recent days of the French policy of round-ups and expulsions of Roma from human rights groups, the Council of Europe, French protestant churches and the Pope, Mr Fillon sent a letter to the EU executive, calling on Brussels to "to improve co-ordination with the Romanian and Bulgarian authorities" and "accentuate initiatives within a European framework."

Read more on http://euobserver.com/9/30675/

EUobserver: Barroso and Fillon to hold Roma 'workshop'

27/08/2010 - Even as France in defiance of international criticism on Thursday (27 August) continued its policy of rounding up and deporting Roma from the country, Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced a further attempt to Europeanise the issue.

He told a meeting of French ambassadors at the Hotel Matignon that he had spoken with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and plans to hold a "working meeting" on the Roma question in the coming days between the French ministers concerned and the appropriate European commissioners.

Mr Fillon insisted, as a number of French cabinet members have in recent days, that the French policy breaches no EU directives. "The recent deportations of Roma to their countries of origin made by our country have been made in full compliance with European law," he said, according to a report in centre-left daily Le Monde.

Read more on http://euobserver.com/9/30687/

EurActiv:
Reding criticises France, Italy over Roma treatment

26/08/2010 - EU Commissioner Viviane Reding, responsible for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, yesterday (25 August) criticised the French authorities for seeking solutions to immigration problems and tackling the Roma issue outside of an EU context. She also indirectly condemned Italy for its "discriminatory" and "inflammatory" rhetoric.

Reding, who is also a vice-president of the European Commission, broke the silence of the summer recess by publishing a statement recognising that following the expulsions of Roma by France and similar intentions voiced by Italy, the issue had attracted the attention of policymakers at both national and EU levels.

"It is clear that those who break the law need to face the consequences. It is equally clear that nobody should face expulsion just for being Roma," Reding wrote, referring to the fact that Roma are reportedly being expelled en masse, although the French authorities insisted that they were dealing with the Roma on a case-by-case basis, as EU legislation requires.

Financial Times: France integrates Roma in secure sites

27/08/2010 - Cimona’s daughter is 14 years old and top of her class. “She wants to be a doctor,” Cimona says proudly as she pours coffee into glass cups in her living room. The room is small, but impeccably neat, furnished with long low sofas and colourful wall hangings that give the place an oriental air. Through the open door it is possible to see across the courtyard, to where Cimona’s neighbours have created a riotous jungle of colour: grape vines stretching over a pergola and the terrace crammed with potted blooms.

Hard to believe, but this is a village of illegal Romany immigrants on the northern outskirts of Paris. By rights these families should have been expelled from France, just as hundreds of others are being deported in the current government crackdown on illegal gypsy camps, which has raised an outcry in France and abroad. But Romanian-born Cimona is one of the lucky few to have been chosen for a government-sponsored experiment in integration that means authorities turned a blind eye to her illegal status.

OPINIONS

Kristian Vigenin calls on adequate EU policy on the Roma issue and their integration

Smolyan, 25/08/2010 - The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament would insist on hearing the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs and even the President of the EU Commission Jose Manuel Barroso in reference with the decision of France to deport Bulgarian and Romanian Roma people. This is what MEP from the Party of the European Socialists Kristian Vigenin said at a press conference in Smolyan, cited by Radio FOCUS Smolyan.

In Vigenin words the decision of France is scandalous and the lack of reaction on behalf of the Bulgarian government is obscene. “Boyko Borisov [Bulgarian PM] placed a request for friendly relations with Nikolas Sarkozy and at same time he had done nothing about the repatriation of Roma people. That is humiliation for Bulgaria, which found no respond from the government”, the MEP added.

Prof. Petar Ivanov: EU seeks place to deport all Roma people and Bulgaria gives vantage environment

Sofia, 26/08/2010 - The European Union is searching for a place where to deport all Roma people and Bulgaria gives vantage conditions for that. This is what social psychologist Prof. Dr. Petar Ivanov said in an interview for FOCUS News Agency.

“As it could be seen from the latter actions of [Nikolas] Sarkozy the EU has interest to deport gypsies on other place. And we could see that he sends them like the echelons in the 60s to the relevant places for deportation. And where does he send them? He sends them to Bulgaria. The EU is searching for a place to deport all gypsies and Bulgaria gives suitable environment for that. Bulgarian population is lessening, it will disappear and then here there would be only gypsies and Turks, he said.

Link: http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n228914

Journalist Georgi Gotev: No European solution to Roma issue, the EU evades it

27/08/2010 - Journalist Georgi Gotev, an EurActiv editor, in an interview with FOCUS News Agency.

FOCUS: Mr. Gotev, in one of your reports you say that France’s Roma expulsion will shake the EU foundations. Why do you think so? Can the Union’s institutions oppose France in any way, provided that it is one of the six founding member states?

Georgi Gotev: The European Union is experiencing a moral crisis. On the one hand, there is populism, because a majority of French people support the Roma expulsion and the dismantling of the Roma camps, but on the other hand there stand the elite of France and the European countries, who are appalled by the wavering and encroachment on the foundations of democracy. Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi are indeed in one camp, but this only makes the situation more worrying. It is hard for the European Commission to play the role of an arbiter, because if two of the EU’s founding member states grow negative against it, it will be possible to say that the EU will never be what it has been up to now.

Sarkozy's Security Policy Brings `Shame' on France, Socialist Aubry Says

29/08/2010 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s security policy brings “shame” to the country and damages its image abroad, Martine Aubry, leader of the opposition Socialist Party, said today.

“This summer was the summer of shame,” Aubry said at the party’s annual conference in La Rochelle, referring to Sarkozy’s July announcement that he would deport Roma people who were in France unlawfully. She also cited Sarkozy’s proposed law to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship if they commit serious crimes, saying the plan breaches France’s constitution.

Sarkozy has sought to tighten security following a spate of violent crime and civil disorder, including riots in the Alpine city of Grenoble last month over a fatal police shooting of an armed 27-year-old of North African origin who led them on a car chase after robbing a casino. About a quarter of all French have at least one grandparent born outside France, according to estimates from Sorbonne demographer Patrick Weil.

COUNTRIES OF ROMA DECADE

Spiegel Online: Unwanted in France, Unloved in Romania: A Desperate Homecoming for Deported Roma

31/08/2010 - France is deporting hundreds of Roma to Romania and other Eastern European countries. But the controversial policy isn't working. Unable to find work in their home countries, many plan to return to France as quickly as possible.

Merisor de la Barbulesti is home again, and he's in a foul mood. He is 42, has 15 grandchildren and his only source of income is his battered accordion. The children romp around him when he gets his instrument from the living room in the evening. He sits down in the courtyard in front of his bright-red house and plays a passage from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." Merisor can't read music. He simply plays by ear, a skill that his father taught him.

The accordion player is a member of the Ursari caste of the Roma people. His ancestors went from village to village with their dancing bears. His German accordion, Hohner's "Verdi" model, was made before the war. It has been played so much that some of the keys are worn down to the bare wood. For six weeks, Merisor tried to earn a living in France, but then French President Nicolas Sarkozy suddenly decided to rid himself of the Roma.

European Commission rejects French calls for postponement of Schengen entry for Romania and Bulgaria

29/08/2010 - Writing in Le Figaro, French Europe Minister Pierre Lellouche has hit back at claims that the repatriation of Roma violates EU rules on freedom of movement, arguing: “I would like to remind the European Commission […] that France, one of the founding members of the EU, is acting in full conformity with EU law.”

EurActiv reported that Mr Lellouche has also hinted at the possible postponement of Romania’s and Bulgaria’s entry into the border-free Schengen area if the two countries fail to integrate their Roma communities properly. However, Matthew Newman – a spokesman for Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding – has underlined that “the integration of minorities is not part of the Schengen acquis”.

EUobserver reported that several EU interior ministers will attend an informal meeting on immigration in Paris on 6 September. The article notes that neither Romania nor Bulgaria has been invited to the summit at the moment.

Link: http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=111352

Bulgaria sees Schengen in 2011, Roma not an issue

BLED, Slovenia, 30/08/2010 - Bulgaria expects to join the EU's border-free zone by the end of 2011 as planned and sees recent expulsions of mostly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma from France as irrelevant to that process, its foreign minister said.

"I hope that by the summer of next year we should be formally ready to begin discussions with our (EU) partners on entering Schengen," Nikolai Mladenov told Reuters in an interview on Monday, referring to the 25-nation Schengen zone. Asked if the Roma issue would delay Bulgaria's plans, he said on the sidelines of a political conference in Slovenia, "I should hope not. What is very important for us is to be assessed on the basis of what we have actually achieved until now."

Mladenov said only up to 150 Bulgarian Roma are expected to be repatriated and that their expulsion was an internal matter of France. "We think that all citizens should abide by all national and EU legislation when they travel to other countries... If any citizens have not been able to prove that they have the means to support themselves, have the housing and the insurance... then the country has the right to take an initiative on that."

EUobserver: Romania and Bulgaria keep low profile on Roma expulsions

BRUSSELS and SOFIA, 26/08/2010 - The Romanian population has received the news of the beginning of the expulsion from France of hundreds - possibly thousands - of Romanian Gypsies with almost total indifference, bordering sometimes on outright hostility to the return of the marginalised social group.

Like in many other Eastern European countries, gypsies are largely disliked inside Romania. According to official data, there are some half a million in the country, out of a population of 22 million, but many NGOs affirm that the real figure would be close to 10 percent of the population. The gypsy population is the second ethnic minority in Romania, after ethnic Hungarians.

The French government announced that it would shut down some 300 illegal Roma camps in the next months. Scores of camps have already been demolished by police and hundreds of Roma have been flown to Romania in what French officials call "voluntary repatriations."

OTHER COUNTRIES

BBC: Uncertain times for Travellers and Gypsies

25/08/2010 - A traveller all her life, 69-year-old Mary Ann McCarthy is proud to show visitors around the place she calls home. "It used to be a dirty scrapyard, but we cleaned it up. Each family has their own deeds," the grey-haired grandmother said, as we strolled through the sprawling site of caravans and mobile homes at Dale Farm, on the outskirts of Basildon, Essex. "The government at the time said let gypsies and travellers provide for themselves and so we did," she added.

But for eight years Mrs McCarthy and her neighbours at Dale Farm, part of which is designated green belt land, have faced the threat of eviction by Basildon District Council. Their final legal challenge was lost in the House of Lords in May last year. And now with the new coalition government making changes to the way local authorities are required to deal with gypsies and travellers, Mrs McCarthy and her neighbours are again wondering if their time is up.

UK: Government to give cash to councils that build traveller sites

29/08/2010 - Ministers are to offer cash incentives to councils that build official sites for travellers in an attempt to persuade communities to allow travellers set up home on their doorsteps.

In a move that risks igniting a major row, the Government is to use powers to encourage home building to also offer "financial benefits" to local authorities that develop land for caravans and campers. The Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, wants to stamp out unlawful developments. This week he will launch a charm offensive with the traveller community, saying those who "play by the rules" will get more rights and be treated in the same way as other mobile home residents.

In January this year there were more than 1,800 caravans on sites "not tolerated" by officials. The figures showed an 11 per cent increase on the previous year, while the number of caravans on sites with permission rose by 4 per cent in the same period.

Eric Pickles: Time for a fair deal for the travelling and settled community

29/08/2010 - Travellers who play by the rules will get the same rights as other mobile home residents and could benefit from more authorised sites under plans announced today by Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles. At the same time, top-down Whitehall planning rules on travellers which Ministers believe has undermined community cohesion and harmed the countryside will be scrapped.

Stronger tenancy rights on authorised council sites - Travellers on official local authority sites will benefit from changes to legislation that will give them the same rights and responsibilities as residents on other mobile home sites. Travellers who abide by the terms of their pitch agreement will have greater protection against eviction, and have the same rights and responsibilities as other social tenants.

New incentives to build authorised sites - The Government has announced that councils will be given incentives through the New Homes Bonus scheme to deliver new housing. Ministers are announcing today that this will include authorised traveller sites. This means that councils will get financial benefits for building authorised sites where they are needed. This will ensure that all types of authorised residential developments are treated equally.

Turkey: Roma groups voice support for reform package

01/09/2010 -

Various Roma groups in different parts of the country have announced their support for government-sponsored reforms that will be presented to a referendum on Sept. 12. Representatives from five Roma foundations in the western province of Bursa gathered in the Bayrak district yesterday to announce that they will vote “yes” in the referendum “for the end of military tutelage in Turkey.”

The head of one such foundation, Efkan Özçimen, said they will vote yes for the future of Turkey so that their children can live in a safer state. Noting that every “yes” vote that will be cast for the reform package will place women, children, the disabled and veterans in a more advantageous position, Özçimen stressed: “We say yes to the prevention of child abuse. We say yes to blacklisting becoming history. We say yes to the trial of the perpetrators of the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup. We believe that a new process will begin in Turkey with the referendum. As Roma people, we give importance to the referendum.”

OPPORTUNITIES

The Roma Education Fund is seeking a new Executive Director

The Roma Education Fund (REF) is seeking a new Executive Director to lead the organisation in the fulfillment of its 2010-2015 Strategy, approved by the REF Board in October 2009.

Link: http://www.romaeducationfund.hu/?doc_id=346

The Roma Education Fund Romania seeks a Country Director

Link: http://www.romaeducationfund.hu/?doc_id=396

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