Roma in Bulgaria

French police have evicted about 200 people, mainly Bulgarian and Romanian Roma from a camp in a suburb of Paris.

The operation was carried out Tuesday. There were many children among the Roma community living in the camp. Some thirty families were provided emergency housing, Bulgaria's Telegraph Agency informs.

A court in Larissa, central Greece, ordered on Saturday that the children’s charity Smile of the Child should have custody of Maria, a five-year-old girl found at a Roma camp in nearby Farsala last October.

Nikolić in favor of strengthening position of Roma

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić spoke to representatives of the Roma ethnic community in Serbia on Tuesday on occasion of April 8, International Roma Day.

He stressed that the position of Serbia's Roma "must be strengthened."

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic spoke to representatives of the Roma ethnic community in Serbia on Tuesday on occasion of April 8, the International Roma Day, and stressed that the position of Serbia's Roma must be strengthened.

The state must make it possible for the Roma to exercise their rights and preserve their own identity, Nikolic said.

Bulgarian Roma across the country celebrate April 8, the International Roma Day.

The International Day of the Roma is a day of celebration of Roma culture, history and traditions. The Day also draws attention to discrimination directed to their communities globally and calls for all human rights to be respected and observed.

A quarter of all young people in Bulgaria entering the labor market come from the Roma community, according to Dr. Elena Kabakchieva of Health and Social Development Foundation.