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Bulgaria's GERB Vows 1 000 Job Openings for Young Roma [Apr 09, 2012] By the year 2020, Roma will have a 23% share of Bulgaria's labor market, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov. Speaking at a national round table on Roma problems, Tsvetanov, who is also the Chairman of the National Council for Partnership on Ethnic and Integration Issues, reported that according to the latest Census, 325 343 Roma live in Bulgaria, which is ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Marks International Roma Day [Apr 08, 2012] Bulgarian Roma across the country celebrate Sunday April 8, the International Roma Day. April 8, the International Day of the Roma, is a day of celebration of Roma culture, history and traditions. The Day also draws attention to discrimination directed to Roma and Gypsy communities globally and calls for all human rights to be respected and observed. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Hindus laud Bulgaria for Roma Integration Strategy [Jan 09, 2012] Nevada (US), Jan 9 (ANI): Hindus have applauded Bulgaria for adopting National Strategy for Integration of Roma in Bulgaria (2012-2020), saying that "it is a step in the right direction". [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria adopts Roma Integration Strategy [Jan 09, 2012] Sofia, Jan 9 : A US based Hindu group has applauded Bulgaria for adopting National Strategy for Integration of Roma in Bulgaria (2012-2020), saying that ?it is a step in the right direction?. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Confirms Murder Sentence for Roma Cherry Thieves [Jan 04, 2012] Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation has confirmed the sentences of nine Roma cherry thieves who received a total of 92 years in jail for the murder of an orchard farmer back in 2009. The ruling is final and cannot be appealed, the local Darik radio has informed. The highest sentence received by a member of the Roma clan in the trial is 19 years, while two of the defendants were sentenced to 3 ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Pour EU, State Funds into Roma Integration Plan [Dec 21, 2011] Bulgaria's government has adopted the long-anticipated National Strategy for Integration of Roma in Bulgaria (2012-2020), and a respective Action Plan, the Cabinet press service announced. The formal rationale for the adoption of the document says it is supposed to overcome the "existing negative socio-economic characteristics" of the Roma which would be a "prerequisite for the successful and ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Sentences Roma Man for Marrying Child Bride [Nov 08, 2011] In an apparent effort to crack down on underage brides, Bulgaria, home of the world's youngest eleven-year-old mother, has delivered a guilty verdict on a man, who married a fifteen-year-ld girl. K Atanasov, a 29-year-old Roma living in a village close to the town of Varna, has been sentenced to probation and a public reprimand for marrying and begetting with children an underage girl. He will ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria anti-Roma rally in Sofia [Oct 02, 2011] About 2,000 Bulgarians protest against Roma and what they see as links to organised crime, amid ethnic unrest ahead of presidential elections. [via YahooNews] More >>

Roma 'King Kiro' arrested in Bulgaria [Sep 28, 2011] An alleged Roma crime boss in Bulgaria under police protection since violent disturbances in his village at the weekend has been arrested, the government said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Freezes Assets of Self-Proclaimed Roma Tsar [Sep 28, 2011] Bulgarian authorities have frozen assets and property of a notorious self-proclaimed Roma tsar and an alleged mastermind of a murder while he is investigated on tax evasion charges, the revenues agency has said. Kiril Rashkov is believed to have been transported late on Monday to Bulgaria's capital Sofia after his Roma clan sparked unprecedented ethnic tensions in the country. The so-called ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Anti-Roma Demonstrations Spread Across Bulgaria [Sep 28, 2011] The police guarded entrances to Roma neighborhoods across the country as demonstrators announced protests Tuesday evening in 20 cities including Sofia, the capital. [via YahooNews] More >>

Anti-Roma Demonstrations Spread Across Bulgaria [Sep 28, 2011] The police guarded entrances to Roma neighborhoods across the country as demonstrators announced protests Tuesday evening in 20 cities including Sofia, the capital. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Marks International Roma Day [Apr 08, 2011] Bulgarian Roma across the country celebrate Friday April 8, the International Roma Day. April 8, the International Day of the Roma, is a day of celebration of Roma culture, history and traditions. The Day also draws attention to discrimination directed to Roma and Gypsy communities globally and calls for all human rights to be respected and observed. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria defends France [Sep 19, 2010] Bulgaria?s conservative government has defended the expulsion of Roma by France. ?The right of freedom of movement does not automatically guarantee the right to settle down,? Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov said ahead of a protest by Roma outside the French embassy in Sofia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria sees Schengen in 2011, Roma not an issue [Aug 30, 2010] BLED, Slovenia, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Bulgaria expects to join the EU's border-free zone by the end of 2011 as planned and sees recent expulsions of mostly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma from France as irrelevant to that process, its foreign minister said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Top Diplomat: Media Distorts France's Roma Deportation [Aug 27, 2010] Bulgaria?s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikolay Mladenov, says the deportation of Roma by French authorities is purely an internal French political debate. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria keeps the peace [Aug 23, 2010] Bulgarias ambassador to France yesterday played down the expulsion of dozens of Roma from France to Bulgaria and Romania this week, insisting the move should not be overly dramatised. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Confirms Roma Expulsion from France [Aug 18, 2010] The Bulgaria n Roma citizens who are illegal ly residing in France will be deported back to their homeland, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. The first of the charter planes, which is scheduled to leave France August 19, 2010, will not be carrying Bulgaria n Roma , only Roma nian. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Vows to Bring back Roma from France [Jul 29, 2010] Bulgaria and Romania are undertaking all necessary measures to bring back the Roma, who have violated French laws, Bulgarian Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov informs. [via YahooNews] More >>