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Attacks on Roma in Ukraine | CSCE US Congress Visitors Center - July 25, 2018 |

Roma are the largest ethnic minority group in Europe and experience widespread discrimination and bigotry. Since the adoption of the 1990 OSCE Copenhagen Document, the U.S.  Helsinki Commission has actively monitored and advanced the OSCE's human rights commitments to Roma.

Over the course of 2018, attacks on Roma in Ukraine have escalated dramatically. Several of the mob attacks have been filmed and broadcast in an attempt to intimidate Roma communities. The attacks have destroyed property, injured many, and killed at least one.

Families, homes, and entire communities have been the target of these mob attacks.  Since April, the Roma Coalition reported eight attacks against Roma settlements in Ukraine, and more than 150 people have fallen victim to these attacks.  Although efforts have been made at the local, national, and international levels to counter this violence, much remains to be done.

Helsinki Commission Counsel on International Law Erika Schlager explained, "These messages were intended to stoke fear and sow interethnic tension ... by engaging sooner rather than later, it makes it more likely that the government can take the actions necessary to put an end to this kind of violence."

Map of Recent Attacks on Roma in Ukraine

Predominantly in Galicia East or Western Ukraine Lviv and regions. Same hate is on the rise in Georgia.

Scapegoating of LGBTI people on increase in Europe

American moral values? Perhaps, but not mine nor (West) European principles of the Four Freedoms. Hellish to shut your eyes for realities in former Soviet states.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 11:49:16 AM EST
regeringen.se | The government's first 100 days: Migration, 24 Jan "media kit"
Migration is a priority area for the government. The area is also one of the cooperation projects that the government parties have with the cooperation party Sweden Democrats to solve Sweden's most important social problems. The cooperation is based on the Tidö Agreement. With the first 100 days now over, a lot of action in the area has been done, and more are in the works.

International information campaign about the paradigm shift in migration policy

The government has today presented an international information campaign about the paradigm shift in migration policy. The campaign will be launched shortly and the aim is to reach out more broadly about the new migration policy. The information campaign consists of, among other things, the following:
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Implemented measures in migration
• increasing the number of internal controls on foreigners
• increasing the fight against irregular migration and prioritizing work with internal alien control
• intensifying the work regarding the return of people
•increasing the number of detention places
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government.se | Sweden's Presidency of the Council of the EU, Jan - June 2023
by Cat on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 01:38:37 PM EST
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Dutch PM Mark Rutte has been on the wrong side of Human Rights in his political career, has send a proposal to Sweden (in 27 languages). Mark is an under-study of UK Immigration Laws. Rutte wishes to legalize what has been illegal for decades. #boris #pittipatel #sikorski #andrzejduda

The Three Seas Initiative: Geopolitical Determinants and Polish Interests

Utter bulls*it from Mark ... not the number of asylum seekers increased, the refugees from NATO's war in Ukraine surged. Rutte and his VVD Tory policy has defunded the entities to receive and house these people. SHAME Tory policy of targeted austerity measures in government ... if you don't "contribute" to Dutch economy, we don't want you to live in The Netherlands.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 02:25:59 PM EST
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C-SPAN | Hearing on Countering Russian Aggression, 26 Jan
MERKLEY @01:34:17: A last question—my colleague was mentioning that Europeans are not putting as much support into Ukraine as we are. And I wonder what that analysis looks like, if one considers the much higher prices they are paying for energy or to host refugees and if you have any sense of how all that balances out in terms of our thinking about the sacrifices the European partners are making?
NULAND: Well, thank you for raising that, Senator Merkely. I did mention that refugee burden, some ten million refugees hosted all over Europe, which, you know, impacts towns and communities all over the continent. And you see that everywhere, but your point about that fact that in—you know, most of my European friends report a three hundred percent increase in their energy bills over the winter, and if you just, say, think about the sticker shock that that would create. If it were happening here, you're are absolutely right, but um that speaks to the fact that they have now woken up to the fact that the dependence they had on Russian oil [?!] was bad for their national interest[s]. And so there will be uh, as hard as this has been, there will be good structural changes that come out the other end.
by Cat on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 02:36:35 PM EST
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what a fu*king idiot and ditto American neo-colonialism ... European self-interest starts beyond the rusted iron curtain of the USSR era. ...

Europe's Frontier: A Rusted Iron Curtain | Jan. 7, 2018 |

"Europe faces a threat to its cohesion. But this time it's on the eastern front, not the western"

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 02:52:06 PM EST
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< wipes tears >
by Cat on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 10:46:57 PM EST
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swedish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu | Ministers discussed migration challenges from third countries and the fight against crime in the digital age, 26 Jan
EU justice and home affairs ministers met in Stockholm for the first informal ministerial meeting under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Sweden's Minister for Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard and Minister for Justice Gunnar Strömmer chaired the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting.

EU justice and home affairs ministers met in Stockholm for the first informal ministerial meeting under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Sweden's Minister for Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard and Minister for Justice Gunnar Strömmer chaired the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting.
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The afternoon began with a minute's silence for the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskyi who along with several other people tragically died in a helicopter accident in Kyiv last week. In light of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator was also present to give an update on the internal security dialogue with Ukraine.
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enc: press conference A/V (EN), running time 00:25:26
by Cat on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 08:39:54 PM EST
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'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Sat Jan 28th, 2023 at 05:45:16 PM EST
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