Roma integration

Czech Republic

Why is Czech Republic pitting Roma and Ukrainians against each other?

A recent string of violent incidents has made the Roma community in the Czech Republic wary of Ukrainian refugees. Euronews uncovers the disinformation and institutional flaws that have pitted two of Europe's most vulnerable against each other.

08/07/2023

Europe News

MEPs call for better funding to integrate and support Roma communities

A resolution has urged member states to address the poverty and discrimination faced by Roma people.

06/10/2022

Europe News

City of Ghent looks to integrate Roma families coming to Belgium

EU member states are being urged by civil society to implement national Roma strategies they previously signed up to.

14/04/2022

Slovenia

Slovenian locals urge authorities to tackle crime in Roma settlement

Slovenian authorities have now started to implement intensive controls, with the help of horseback units and Roma police officers.

21/12/2021

Slovakia

Slovakia apologises for forced sterilisations of Roma women

Thousands of Roma women were forced into sterilisation in Slovakia dating back to the Communist rule of 1966.

25/11/2021

Scenes

Meet the Roma girl band empowering women and challenging stereotypes

In partnership with Media City

"The message we send is that a girl should be independent, strong, believe in herself, and have a goal and not marry early."

22/11/2021

Czech Republic

Czech police maintain officers not resposnible for Roma man's death

The death of the Stanislav Tomáš has stoked divisions between Czech authorities and the Roma minority community, who reject the official autopsies.

28/10/2021

Czech Republic

'Czech your racism': Hundreds honor Stanislav Tomas in Bucharest

Tomas died after being violently arrested by police in the Czech Republic

29/06/2021

People

Why the #VanLife trend is hurting Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities

While there are over 555,000 caravans in use in the UK, an estimated 23,000 of these belong to Travellers.

10/05/2021

Europe News

French police using Roma to inflate deportation figures, says activist

Activists say it is a stage-managed process designed to inflate deportation figures and has been going on for a decade.

04/02/2021

Europe News

Europe's Roma people 'left behind' during coronavirus pandemic

Roma people are Europe’s largest ethnic minority but many of them are subjected to discrimination and social exclusion.

08/07/2020

World News

Euroviews. View: Five reasons why you should care about statelessness

If we don’t work to ensure that everyone in Europe and the world has a nationality, this purely man-made problem will continue to be passed from one generation to the next, writes UNHCR's Aikaterini Kitidi

29/11/2017

My Europe Series

Who are the Roma people?

01/08/2017

Norway

“I fight for my son”: A 360 degree portrait of a Romanian street worker

Every day at 5 am Florian-Petrus Cretu gets up to sell Folk er Folk, a street magazine, in the streets of Oslo.

08/06/2017

No Comment

Pope Francis make surprise shantytown visit

09/02/2015

World

Perception v reality: corruption, discrimination and Romania's EU relations

04/12/2013

My Europe Series

The Roma: Can the European Commission do more?

01/11/2013

My Europe Series

Deep divisions over Europe's Roma

22/10/2013

Europe News

Helping Roma families to integrate

02/10/2013

My Europe Series

Roma education, key to integration

08/07/2013