Romani people

BELGRADE - Serbia has issued 107,000 personal identification documents to its Roma citizens in the past 7 years, but some members of this population are still legally invisible, according to what was said at a meeting on Thursday dedicated to the problems Roma face.

Freezing power prices and boosting police presence in regions with high rates of crime attributed to Roma population will be two key demands of Bulgaria's nationalist coalition Patriotic Front in a new round of talks with GERB on Thursday.

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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.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said during a visit to Turin, Italy on Saturday that he wants to be a prime minister of all Romanians, not only of those who live in Romania, but also of the Romanians living outside the country's borders.

Region works to solve Roma housing crisis

Countries are focusing on helping the minority group to legalise their housing settlements.

In an effort to meet the EU directive on Roma housing, countries in Southeast Europe are implementing programmes and legislation to legalise settlements for Roma.

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A transgender Romani woman was found killed at her home in the neighborhood of Kurtuluş on the European side of Istanbul by the police

A man has been hit by a fast train near Bulgaria's town of Svoge, Saturday.

According to reports by the Interior Ministry, the man has been killed by the passenger train running from Lom to Sofia. According to the initial information, he was sitting on the tracks and did not respond to the audible warning signals.

The flexibility with which laws are implemented has been a fundamental cause for concern in Greece during the post-dictatorship era.

Everything becomes a subject for negotiation, even in cases when the legislation is crystal-clear and backed by irrevocable court decisions.

Plans to relocate a Roma encampment in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri are to begin on Wednesday morning with the demolition of 12 of the 26 shacks at the site, central and local government officials agreed Tuesday after hours of protests against the scheme by residents of the camp.

Plans to evacuate and partially demolish a Roma encampment in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri, erected nearly four decades ago on a site behind the present-day Nomismatokopio metro station, were called off on Tuesday amid protests from the camps residents and local authority representatives.