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The recent violence toward the Roma in Romania and Hun-gary generated con-cern inside the civil societies of the two countries. At the initiative of a group of human rights activists, a workshop on possible intervention solutions and resolutions took place in Tirgu Mures.
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The inhabitants of the small community of Pata Rat are mostly unemployed and make a living by doing small jobs and recycling waste. The only source of water is a single pump in the street, AFP reports.
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Bucharest city fathers decided at the end of last year to allocate a land for a Turkish cemetery. If the decision will be ap-plied, the Muslim community will benefit, after more than 70 years, from their own cemetery.
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Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January is an occasion for Jews and Roma (Gypsies) to remind the world how their families were terrorised and butchered by the Nazis in World War II. Roma in Vlasca, a village in southeastern Romania, told the BBC's Delia Radu about their wartime ordeal.
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People from Republic of Moldova believe they are the most respected by Roma-nian citizens but they have the tendency of looking for a good relation with Russian Federation, as it is shown in polling.
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Hundreds of Muslims from Constanta and other localities from Dobrogea, ignoring the coldness and the rain, participated, on Sunday, to the religious ceremony for Kurban Bairam – The Sacrifice Celebration, officiated in the mosque from Ovidiu Square.
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Only 31 percent of Romanian citizens know their rights in case they become victims of discrimina-tion or harassment, according to the “Discrimination in the European Union of 2008” survey, commissioned by the European Commission. Most often, discrimination has a sexual or ethnical nature.
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Unknown vandals have knocked over and, in some cases, destroyed 131 head-stones in Bucharest's Jewish cemetery. The vandals also smashed windows in the ad-ministrative offices of the cemetery in Romania's capital.
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Romania's new Muslims are taking a central role during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, offering iftar meals and building bridges with fellow Muslims, Islam Online (IOL) reports. "Ramadan in the best time to work in a loving environment for the sake of Allah," one person says.
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Nationalism becomes the lethal weapon in symbolic disputes. But there are also more decent stakes, such as delineating the real geographical center of Europe. The problem is that nobody can say where exactly lies the heart of Europe. From Austria to Ukraine, some countries announced they plan to proudly undertake the role of the old continent’s heart.
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The recent visit to Chisinau of Lazar Comanescu, minister of foreign affairs, was a positive sign as it led to the opening of a new Romanian con-sulate in the Republic of Moldova, but also triggered a wave of anti-Romanian reactions.
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A Roma ghetto in Ponticelli neighbourhood of Naples, Italy, was burnt down May 14 by locals angry over a reported attempt by a Roma young woman to kidnap a baby, IPS reports. The incident shows that, when it comes to living together with the 10 million Roma, Europeans today have no better answer than the "Gypsy hunts" of the Middle Ages.
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The European Com-mission has warned the Italian govern-ment not to take "extreme measures" against EU citizens, just 12 days after Silvio Berlusconi was sworn in as prime minister. A debate in the European Parliament took place on the eve of the first session of the Italian government and the expected adoption of a package of measures to crack down on illegal immigration.
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The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institu-tions and Human Rights on May 16 expressed concern o-ver the violent at-tacks on informal Roma settlements in Italy. The ODIHR called on the Italian authorities to ensure the protection of the Roma population and urged to refrain from anti-Roma rhetoric.
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Armenians around the world mark on April 24th as 'Armenian Genocide Day'. On this day in 1915, a pogrom be-gan of the Armenians in Constan-tinople. Armenians say 1.5 million were deliberately exterminated dur-ing the First World War, The World Next Week related.
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Anti-Semitism, includ-ing government-pro-moted hatred toward Jews and prejudice couched as criticism of Israel, has risen globally over the last decade, the State Department report recently said.
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Kosovo’s Assembly on Sunday, February 17, declared the re-gion a new country in a long-anticipated step that marks the further dissolution of the former Yugoslavia into ethnically based Balkan states.
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The main Albanian op-position party in Macedo-nia has urged the Pope to help stop the building of an Orthodox Christian church at the location of the house where Mother Teresa was born, Balkan Insight related.
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Belgrade _ Incumbent President Boris Tadic claimed victory in Serbia's closely-fought Presidential Election Sunday, with nationalist rival, Tomislav Nikolic congratulating Tadic on his win, related Balkan Insight, a BIRN's internet publication.
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The European Commission is set for an unprecedented meeting with Roma (Gypsy) people from all over Europe. It is a response to the challenge posed by what has become the biggest ethnic minority in the enlarged European Union.
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Leading Italian politicians responded swiftly, decisively — and controversially — to the brutal murder of a navy officer's wife allegedly by a Romanian Gypsy: They announced 20,000 foreigners would be expelled from Rome alone.
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Euro-parliamentarian Attila Kelemen said on September 14, he subsequently supports the reestablishment of the “Bolyai" University teaching in Hungarian tongue.
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Thousands of Roma Gypsies may head west in search of jobs and better lives and the EU must prepare for them, Romania's self-proclaimed Gypsy king said.
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In Transylvania, Nigel Richardson from Daily Telegraph finds rural mores intact and tourism in its carefully mothered infancy.
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The Union’s Coordination Council and the Council of Union Representatives with the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, or UDMR, elected Saturday, June 9, deputy Kelemen Hunor as UDMR executive president.
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In the garden of the Zion Synagogue, a grove of newly planted fruit trees is struggling for life. The synagogue, whose silver dome towers over this city of 210,000 in western Romania, has fallen into disrepair since it ceased functioning in 1995, a casualty of the city’s declining Jewish community, JTA wire reports.
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The 14th Budapest International Book Festival opened last month to present to the public several hundreds of writers from 25 different countries and more than 40,000 different publications, Eurolang reports.
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TIRGU MURES –Pro Europa League has informed Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform and the Romanian Press Club upon anti-Semite articles and caricatures published in weekly magazine “Europai Ido” in Sf. Gheorghe.
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BUCHAREST - Described by one newspaper as "the Jean Marie Le Pen of the Carpathians", Romania's extreme nationalist party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor has long relished his notoriety as xenophobic, racist and in particular anti-Semitic, Reuters reported
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BRASOV - An extreme nationalist Romanian leader unveiled a statue of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on January 15 despite an outcry from Israel and Rabin's children, who said his memory was being exploited, Reuters reported
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