Romani people

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.

A Roma encampment that has stood just off Mesogeion Avenue behind the present-day Nomismatokopio metro station for the best part of 40 years is set for demolition on Tuesday, with residents of the settlement trying to block the operation from going ahead and resisting orders to evacuate.

Border authorities of Romania, Hungary and Moldova are taking part in a cooperation project designed to fight against illegal immigration, Romania's General Border Police Directorate (IGPF) reports in a press release issued on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - A total of 20 local self-governments received Dacia SUVs within the EU support programme for Roma inclusion and the vehicles were delivered to the local self-government representatives in the Palace of Serbia in the presence of Minister without portfolio in charge of European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic, Head of the EU Delegation in Serbia Michael Davenport and Head of the OSCE M

EU donates 20 vehicles for Roma inclusion program

BELGRADE -- A total of 20 local self-governments received on Tuesday Dacia SUVs as part of the EU support program for Roma inclusion.

Three people have been arrested on Rhodes over human trafficking accusations after they allegedly forced three Roma children to beg on the island’s streets.

The parents of the three children, as well as a 54-year-old local man were taken into custody.

Expanding the network of local human rights monitors and developing the instruments aimed at preventing and combating all forms of discrimination against Roma people are the main objectives of the project "Enforcing Human Rights Standards for the Roma in Romania", launched on Wednesday by the Roma People's Centre for Social Intervention and Studies - Romani CRISS.

"More than 4,000 seek asylum in Serbia"

BELGRADE -- Deputy Citizens' Ombudsman Miloš Janković says there have been more than 4,000 migrants seeking asylum in Serbia in the first half of this year alone.

He pointed out that they are mostly citizens of Asian and African countries, and that their ultimate goal is to reach western Europe.

Secretary of State with the Labour Ministry Codrin Scutaru on Friday said that the gestures by some xenophobe groups of vilifying the Romanian community in Spain must be firmly discouraged by the Romanian and Spanish authorities.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy condemned on Saturday in the strongest terms the protest that residents of the village of Sirca near Kraljevo held because they are against two Roma families moving into their neighborhood.