Romani in Romania

Romania's main faith organisation, the Orthodox Church, has disputed claims that the country's Roma suffered exclusively from slavery in past centuries, after being threatened with a lawsuit.

Daniel Cioaba, who leads the Romanian charter of the International Romani Union and is also an evangelical Christian pastor, has launched a cryptocurrency that aims to become a popular tool of payment for Roma-owned businesses and individuals, Romanian media reported this week.

The Bucharest-based Federation of Romania's Ethnic Roma (FER) was established in 1990 and acquired a legal personality by Decision 1541 of May 28, 1990 of the District 1 Bucharest Courthouse, according to "Dictionar al partidelor si coalitiilor politice si al uniunilor etnice din Romania'' (Dictionary of political parties and coalitions and ethnic unions of Romania), edited by ROMPRES National

In a message on the occasion of International Roma Day, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban says that the current government is a supporter of the social inclusion and social, cultural and economic empowerment of the Roma communities and that, to this effect, it is preparing a new national strategic framework for the next five years, the measures of which will be adjusted to the specific needs of the

SUBOTICA - Serbia has prolonged the Decade of Roma Inclusion by another 10 years, and a strategy for the improvement of the position and inclusion of the Roma people in Serbia is expected to be drafted soon, Nenad Ivanisevic, president of the government's Council for the Improvement of the Position of Roma, said in Subotica on Friday.

BELGRADE - Compared to other European countries, Serbia has gone far in implementing the Decade of Roma, Nenad Ivanisevic, president of the government council for improvement of the position of the Roma and the Decade of Roma Inclusion, said on Monday.