Ostracized Roma still struggle across Balkans
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia  - Elka Strojan and her 30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
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Kosova PM, Bajram Rexhepi asked today from the OSCE CiO, Solomon Passy that the elections process out of Kosova, namely in Serbia and Montenegro be well monitored, in order to avoid any abuses at the polling ...
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PRISTINA, Dec 6 (IPS) - The Troika mediating between Serbia and its  breakaway southern province Kosovo has had to acknowledge that  its 120-day mediation period has really led nowhere.
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Migrants and minorities suffer discrimination throughout the European Union but the extent of the problem is hidden by a lack of mechanisms in many states to monitor racism, an independent EU body said on Tuesday.
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No parking spaces. Crippling traffic jams. Sky-high rents. Is this London, Rome, or Athens? No, it's Bucharest, where communism and capitalism have conspired to make it Europe's most crowded capital.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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Europe's Roma minority appealed  to the United Nations on Wednesday to be included in annual  Holocaust commemorations as recognized victims of Nazi Germany  who still suffer discrimination across the continent.
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...
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BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - A 100-year old Roma tradition is under threat after a local government in south-east Hungary forgot to include an annual party to mark the end of the wedding season in their list of festivals.
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Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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"The authorities were merciless. They took the Roma from their homes, from the towns and army and sent them far away, to obtain a pure nation"  Romania's president apologized for the deportation of thousands of Gypsies to Nazi death camps during World War II, the first time a government official has done so publicly. via Montereyherald.com
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As Serbia is criticised over fugitive war crimes suspects, BBC's Gabriel Partos examines the impact on the Balkans.
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BELGRADE, Jul 16 (IPS) - The northern Serbian city Novi Sad and capital  Belgrade have become multi-ethnic centres of the Balkans over the  past five days with the hosting of the EXIT festival and the  Saturday concert of the Rolling Stones.
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BBC's Gabriel Partos looks at the initiative by central and south-east European countries to improve the living conditions of the Roma people.
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A Serb returns to his home in Croatia to find life is a struggle against local discrimination.
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SKOROBISTE, Serbia  - In the sweltering heat of the Balkan summer, the stray dogs cannot even muster a bark as a NATO foot patrol makes its way through the hilltop village of Skorobiste in southwest Kosovo.