Europa Ocidental

Roma migrants evicted from Stockholm site

Published in Monday February 17th, 2014 In In the media

The Swedish Enforcement Agency (Kronofogden) carried out the eviction in Högdalen, a suburb in the southern reaches of Stockholm, at 9am on Monday, just days after a bus load of the campers went home.

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Unwanted Roma

Published in Friday February 14th, 2014 In In the media

Hundreds of thousands of Roma – mostly from Romania and Bulgaria – have moved to Western Europe since the 1990s. Widely perceived as scroungers and thieves, they are rarely made welcome.

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Review of the Rapporteur’s Activities in 2013 – Newsletter #42

Published in Wednesday January 22nd, 2014

Read the review of the Rapporteur’s activities in 2013, with all the reports presented, the missions and working visits conducted and the consultations on security of tenure held.

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France Evicts Over 21 Thousand Roma Migrants in 2013

Published in Wednesday January 15th, 2014 In In the media

French authorities evicted more than 21 537 Roma migrants in 2013, more than double the total for 2012, official data showed. In comparison, some 9 404 Roma were forcibly evicted in 2012 and 8 455 in 2011, according to data provided by the same organizations.

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France deports record number of Roma

Published in Wednesday January 15th, 2014 In In the media

France forcibly evicted a record 19,380 Roma migrants in 2013 — more than double the figure from the previous year — two rights groups said in a joint report released Tuesday. The France-based Human Rights League (LDH) and the Hungary-based European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) said the number was a startling increase from the 9,404 Roma evicted in 2012 and the 8,455 evicted in 2011.

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EU migrants to be helped find homes by assigned housing officer in Aberdeen

Published in Wednesday January 8th, 2014 In In the media

The city council has revealed that 18.5 per cent of housing applications are from the migrant worker community and councillors believe migrants have not been given the same level of information and advice about entitlement to local authority housing since the city council stopped funding the project three years ago.

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Mortgage rise will plunge a million homeowners into ‘perilous debt’

Published in Tuesday January 7th, 2014 In In the media

According to a new report from an influential thinktank, the Resolution Foundation, even in the most optimistic scenario – in which interest rates rise slowly to 3% by 2018 and economic growth is strong and well-distributed between the rich and poor – 1.12 million homeowners will be spending more than half of their take-home pay on mortgage repayments – this is a widely accepted indicator of over-indebtedness.

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Leading the Charge Against Spain’s Mortgage Crisis

Published in Saturday December 21st, 2013 In In the media

A few years ago, Ms. Colau was an unknown in Spain. But these days, her work defending homeowners who have fallen behind on their mortgages has made her a household name, and she is often stopped on the street by strangers offering encouragement.

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France dismantles Roma camp, evicts 800 immigrants

Published in Thursday November 28th, 2013 In In the media

Around 300 police forces attacked the Roma camp in Saint-Ouen in the northern suburbs of Paris early on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of Roma people, including women and children, to leave the place.

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Roma leader says his people will be forced to beg on Britain’s streets

Published in Thursday November 7th, 2013 In In the media

A Roma leader has warned that travellers who move to Britain from Romania and Bulgaria when the border restrictions are lifted will turn to begging or black market trades if they cannot access social welfare. Rudko Kawczynski, president of the European Roma Travellers Forum, criticised the panic over the opening up of European Union labour markets to Romanians and Bulgarians from January, which has prompted fears about large numbers of Roma heading to Britain, France and Germany.

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