You want to know what the EU does for the Roma? We invite you to visit the brand new EU Roma web portal: www.ec.europa.eu/roma.
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The year 2010 has been declared European Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion. On Friday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs launched a campaign against poverty here in the Czech Republic, and outlined just how it aims to help the country’s poor.
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Today, 21 January, the European Commission and the Spanish Presidency of the EU are launching the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion with an inaugural conference in Madrid hosted by the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
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Romany children in the Czech Republic still face unequal access to education, says Amnesty International in a report which has just been released. Two years after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that placing Romany children in “special schools” was unlawful discrimination, Amnesty International went back to Ostrava where the court case was originally filed to see what had changed.
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On the agenda of the Supreme Administrative Court on Monday is a much-discussed case that has been long in the making: a governmental proposal to dissolve the far-right Workers’ Party. Different governments have asserted that the party is a political wing of the neo-Nazi movement, however a previous attempt to ban the party outright in early 2009 was dismissed for lack of evidence. This time around the Ministry of the Interior is sparing no punches.
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A Roma women’s conference and a television talk show highlighting ‘Roma-phobia,’ spearhead the Council of Europe’s efforts to focus international attention on anti-Gypsyism in 2010.
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