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Friday | Slovak Spectator

7am: Slovak MEPs criticise SMK

A group of Slovak MEPs criticised Slovakia's ethnic-Hungarian SMK party during a debate in the European Parliament.

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Related Topix: Ethnic

Tue Aug 05, 2008

Bloomberg

Berlusconi Targets Gypsies to Fight Crime as Bias Bedevils Top EU Minority

Rebecca Covaciu, like most little girls, likes to draw pictures of the things she knows best: Her brother playing the accordion for spare change, a self-portrait as she begs for money to buy food, a shack under ...

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Related Topix: Silvio Berlusconi, Ethnic, World News, Europe, Italy

Sat Aug 02, 2008

Gulf Times

Basescu slams treatment of Roma gypsies

Basescu was referring to a census of ethnic Roma - known colloquially as gypsies - ordered by the Italian government which also involves fingerprinting, including children.

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Related Topix: World News, Romania, Ethnic, Europe, Italy, Traian Basescu

Thu Jul 31, 2008

Nine O'Clock

Details

In an interview published in 1994, a professor from the University of Bremen, Germany, told me: "If you had an economy of the same value as higher education, EU would run for integration with Romania." That was ...

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Ethnic

Sat Jul 26, 2008

Raw Story

Gypsies Meet census takers, relief workers with suspicion in Italy.

Italy's policy towards immigrants -- notably ethnic Romanians, many of them Roma -- has come under intense scrutiny since Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said last month that security forces would fingerprint ...

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Related Topix: Ethnic

Fri Jul 25, 2008

EKathimerini

S/E Europe

Heavy flooding hit north and west Romania this week, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate dozens of flooded rural towns, officials said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Ethnic, Europe, Bulgaria, World News, Turkey, Middle East,

Wed Jul 23, 2008

Raw Story

Gypsies Meet census takers, relief workers with suspicion in Italy.

Italy's policy towards immigrants -- notably ethnic Romanians, many of them Roma -- has come under intense scrutiny since Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said last month that security forces would fingerprint ...

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Related Topix: Ethnic

Tue Jul 22, 2008

Inter Press Service

ROMANIA: Looking to Rome to Escape the Roma

A decision by Italian authorities to fingerprint nomads -- mostly Roma -- is supported by many Romanians, in spite of statements from Romanian officials condemning the measure as discriminatory.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News, Ethnic, Activism,

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Reuters UK

Italy to fingerprint all to avoid discrimination

Italy may demand all its citizens be fingerprinted, a move aimed at defusing widespread criticism of government plans to force Roma people and their children to provide fingerprints as a way of tackling ...

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Related Topix: Ethnic, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho, The University of Findlay, Europe, Italy, World News

Sat Jul 12, 2008

The Epoch Times

AIDS in Romania

Over a hundred volunteers stand in the shape of the international AIDS symbol as they mark international AIDS day in Bucharest.

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Related Topix: World News, Romania, Health, Medicine, Malaria, Ethnic, HIV/AIDS, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Thu Jul 10, 2008

Groong Armenian News Network

EDM: Guam's Batumi Summit Builds Partnerships Amid Challenges

From : Vladimir Socor Date : Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:53:02 -0700 July 9, 2008 -- Volume 5, Issue 130 GUAM'S BATUMI SUMMIT BUILDS PARTNERSHIPS AMID CHALLENGES by Vladimir Socor GUAM consultations with the Partner ...

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Related Topix: Ethnic, Europe, World News, Lithuania, Romania, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Sat Jun 21, 2008

Times of hate, Times of joy

Noua Dreapta being trained and supported by North Korea

Noua Dreapta being a fascist party from Romania. According to Wikipedia Noua Dreapta "Noua Dreapta's web site indicates opposition to sexual minorities, Roma, abortion, communism, globalization, the European ...

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Related Topix: Ethnic, Religion, Orthodox Church

Tue Jun 17, 2008

Transitions Online

Our Take: Orban's Political Orbit

Hungarians may mourn the loss of empire. But some politicians act like it still exists.

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Related Topix: Hungary, Europe, World News, Ethnic

Wed Jun 04, 2008

Romano Vodi

Zahrani n

The protest in Bucharest is taking place simultaneously with a protest of Romani organizations from Spain in front of the Italian Embassy to Madrid.

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Related Topix: Czech Republic, Europe, World News, Romania, Activism, Ethnic

Fri May 30, 2008

Turkish Daily News

- Romania is an example to all'

'Romania is an example to all' In a world where ethnic and religious conflicts are on the rise, a country like Romania where people of different ethnicities live together should set an example for everyone, ...

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Related Topix: Ethnic

Thu May 22, 2008

Nine O'Clock

Details

PM: Italian anti-illegal immigrant measures, aimed at non-EU states Bucharest Cabinet will issue an official point of view after a careful analysis of the laws by experts from several ministries.

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Related Topix: World News, Romania, Europe, Ethnic

Mon May 19, 2008

Nine O'Clock

Details

“The issue does not apply to the Romanian community in Italy, who is rather well inserted. Unfortunately, some isolated incidents have caused a commotion, denting its image, yet relations between Italy and Romania are very good”

Joint Romanian - Italian commission on illegal immigration, crimes Representatives from both countries agreed to increase the number of Romanian Police officers in the Peninsula as well, as a way to solve the ... via Nine O'Clock

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Related Topix: Ethnic, Italy,

Sat May 17, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

68% of Italians want Roma expelled - poll

“We never thought we'd see such images in Italy”

Firefighters inspect the remains of a Gypsy camp set alight in Naples after a resident was accused of trying to abduct a baby. via Guardian Unlimited

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Related Topix: Italy, World News, Europe

Thu May 15, 2008

hosted Reuters | Reuters

Italy arrests 400 in illegal immigrants swoop

“People do what the political class can't manage.”

By Stephen Brown

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police announced on Thursday the arrest of hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in a sign of the new right-wing government's determination to clamp down.

Police arrested 383 people including 268 foreigners, with 53 immediately taken to the border for expulsion, in a week-long operation stretching from northern Italy to the Naples area.

Silvio Berlusconi swept back to power for a third term as prime minister last week promising to get tough on illegal immigrants, blamed by many for crime. He is readying new laws to screen immigrants and jail or expel those breaking the law. Read more

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Related Topix: Europe, Italy, World News, Ethnic

Tue May 06, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Review: McMedia by Misha Glenny and Boss of Bosses by Claire Longrigg

Ever heard of Transnistria? Neither had I, until I read McMafia, Misha Glenny's eye-opening account of our criminal planet. via Guardian Unlimited

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Related Topix: Ethnic, Drugs

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