EUROPE:  Slovaks and Hungarians Clash over Xenophobia
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PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) - The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims  to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise  the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the  EU (European Union)'s most unfriendly neighbours.
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Hungarians were voting in a referendum on extending citizenship to millions of ethnic Hungarians living in the region, a motion that has split the country and drawn fire from neighboring governments.
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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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Professional soccer teams, their national and international governing bodies and anti-racism groups have been grappling with a number of incidents around Europe over the last month.
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Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic has launched a stinging attack on a senior ethnic Hungarian parliamentarian, the SME newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Official condemnation of the racist barracking suffered by England footballers in Spain this week cannot hide the fact that xenophobia is on the rise in a country now Europe&#39;s biggest magnet for immigrants, Spanish anti-racism campaigners warned yesterday
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Ethnic minority groups in Northern Ireland are warned by police of threats to attack them.
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The fear here is that the whole of Europe has succumbed to the virus of racism and that new political parties based on some variant of racism will swell in popular support, win elections, run institutions of ...
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Racism and religious intolerance are rising in Europe, with Muslims and Jews targeted in a misguided backlash against global terrorism and Middle East violence, delegates at an international conference on racism said.
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BUDAPEST, Jan. 24 (IPS) - The possibility of an official trip by charismatic  Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to Venezuela, China and Libya  is causing uproar in the media and opposition, who insist  Slovakia should stick to its Euro-Atlantic orientation and rid  itself of socialist nostalgia.
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European soccer&#39;s governing body is opening disciplinary cases against Hungarian champion Ferencvaros and Czech club Banik Ostrava for racist abuse and missile throwing in their respective UEFA Cup matches this week.
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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 press grapples with the enormity of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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AMBRUS, Slovenia  - About 1,000 Slovenian villagers scuffled with police late on Saturday as they protested against the return of a large Roma Gypsy family that had been evicted last month.
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European footballâs governing body today brought disciplinary charges against Hungarian champions Ferencvaros after crowd trouble and racist abuse during their UEFA Cup tie against Millwall.
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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS The murder of a controversial Dutch filmmaker has reenergized an uncomfortable debate over Europe's relationship with its growing Muslim minority.
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In 1999, Texas governor George W.  Bush publicly confused Slovenia with Slovakia at a time when  both belonged to a group of ex-communist east European states  striving to join the European Union.