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09-28-2010, 03:55 PM
Roma Migrants Heading For Western Europe
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12:39pm UK, Tuesday September 28, 2010
Alex Rossi, Europe correspondent, in Romania
Thousands of Roma Gypsies deported from France will head for Britain, Germany or Spain, according to members of their community.Roma who spoke to Sky News said they had no choice but to emigrate as they faced a life of poverty and discrimination at home in Romania.
In the village of Fantanele, just north of Bucharest, it is easy to see why they are leaving.
Most of the houses have no running water and many have no electricity.
But on the streets, cars with foreign number plates serve as a reminder of what many perceive to be a better and easier way of life on offer in Western Europe.
Iiordan Marian is among thousands who have just been expelled from France.
He said police had forced him onto a plane and smashed his camp.
In France, Sarkozy's move has popular support; in Germany, Thilo Sarrazin has questioned the value of Muslims; and in Holland Geert Wilder's anti-Islamic message is gaining a greater grip. (http://blogs.news.sky.com/eurovision/Post:017e140d-f550-48cd-a379-7086fe4c7d7c)
Alex Rossi asks whether Europe is lurching to the right
They did though give him 300 Euros compensation, which he spent on car air fresheners.
He says he will sell them on the streets of London, because he believes his desired destination of Britain has a generous benefits system and respects human rights.
He said: "We need money, we need food. We can live in Romania but we have no job and in this village each family has about 10 kids."
"We are members of the European Union and we have rights."
The Roma Gypsies are becoming a growing social problem for the European Union.
There are an estimated 12 million Roma in Europe and their number is rapidly increasing.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Sep/Week4/15746663.jpg An anti-Roma march in Bulgaria, where some of the migrants have been deported
In Hungary, it has been suggested Roma could make up 40% of the workforce by 2040.
Some feel that could spell disaster for the country's economic future, with the badly-educated Roma existing on the margins of society.
The EU and its individual states are now under pressure to provide more financial assistance and better education programmes.
But it is clear that President Sarkozy's policy of rounding up and deporting members of the Roma community will not provide a permanent solution for the continent.
As EU citizens, the Roma have the right to freedom of movement.
We are members of the European Union and we have rights ... we need money.
Iiordan Marian, member of the Roma community
And as the deserted streets of the southern Romanian commune Cojasca suggest, it is an entitlement they are continuing to make use of.
Sky News was told 90% of the Roma who have been deported from France have now left the village for Britain, Germany or Spain, in the belief those countries represent a softer option.
Marian though is going back to France, with him and his five children already having packed their bags.
"There's nothing here," he said.
"I can go to France and win my bread easily. In four months I can make enough money to feed my family for one year."
There is no doubt the Roma are outcasts and most face social exclusion as a way of life.
View Cojasca, Romania (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108338968222534721484.00049141751618efe7fe9&t=h&ll=44.995883,25.356445&spn=10.876599,17.578125&z=5&source=embed) in a larger map
European expansion to the East has created strategic and economic benefits for the EU.
But the Roma believe helping them out of poverty should be part of the price.
:: A court in Romania has been told that a gang of child-traffickers stole 181 children and forced them to beg, pickpocket and shoplift on Britain's streets.
With the children likened to Fagin's urchins in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, 26 Romanians face charges ranging from child smuggling to money laundering and firearms offences.
It is even claimed some of the children were deliberately disfigured to increase earning potential - with all cash going straight into the pockets of the gang.
The children - the youngest just a few months old - have been taken into care.
Roma Migrants Heading For Western Europe
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12:39pm UK, Tuesday September 28, 2010
Alex Rossi, Europe correspondent, in Romania
Thousands of Roma Gypsies deported from France will head for Britain, Germany or Spain, according to members of their community.Roma who spoke to Sky News said they had no choice but to emigrate as they faced a life of poverty and discrimination at home in Romania.
In the village of Fantanele, just north of Bucharest, it is easy to see why they are leaving.
Most of the houses have no running water and many have no electricity.
But on the streets, cars with foreign number plates serve as a reminder of what many perceive to be a better and easier way of life on offer in Western Europe.
Iiordan Marian is among thousands who have just been expelled from France.
He said police had forced him onto a plane and smashed his camp.
In France, Sarkozy's move has popular support; in Germany, Thilo Sarrazin has questioned the value of Muslims; and in Holland Geert Wilder's anti-Islamic message is gaining a greater grip. (http://blogs.news.sky.com/eurovision/Post:017e140d-f550-48cd-a379-7086fe4c7d7c)
Alex Rossi asks whether Europe is lurching to the right
They did though give him 300 Euros compensation, which he spent on car air fresheners.
He says he will sell them on the streets of London, because he believes his desired destination of Britain has a generous benefits system and respects human rights.
He said: "We need money, we need food. We can live in Romania but we have no job and in this village each family has about 10 kids."
"We are members of the European Union and we have rights."
The Roma Gypsies are becoming a growing social problem for the European Union.
There are an estimated 12 million Roma in Europe and their number is rapidly increasing.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Sep/Week4/15746663.jpg An anti-Roma march in Bulgaria, where some of the migrants have been deported
In Hungary, it has been suggested Roma could make up 40% of the workforce by 2040.
Some feel that could spell disaster for the country's economic future, with the badly-educated Roma existing on the margins of society.
The EU and its individual states are now under pressure to provide more financial assistance and better education programmes.
But it is clear that President Sarkozy's policy of rounding up and deporting members of the Roma community will not provide a permanent solution for the continent.
As EU citizens, the Roma have the right to freedom of movement.
We are members of the European Union and we have rights ... we need money.
Iiordan Marian, member of the Roma community
And as the deserted streets of the southern Romanian commune Cojasca suggest, it is an entitlement they are continuing to make use of.
Sky News was told 90% of the Roma who have been deported from France have now left the village for Britain, Germany or Spain, in the belief those countries represent a softer option.
Marian though is going back to France, with him and his five children already having packed their bags.
"There's nothing here," he said.
"I can go to France and win my bread easily. In four months I can make enough money to feed my family for one year."
There is no doubt the Roma are outcasts and most face social exclusion as a way of life.
View Cojasca, Romania (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108338968222534721484.00049141751618efe7fe9&t=h&ll=44.995883,25.356445&spn=10.876599,17.578125&z=5&source=embed) in a larger map
European expansion to the East has created strategic and economic benefits for the EU.
But the Roma believe helping them out of poverty should be part of the price.
:: A court in Romania has been told that a gang of child-traffickers stole 181 children and forced them to beg, pickpocket and shoplift on Britain's streets.
With the children likened to Fagin's urchins in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, 26 Romanians face charges ranging from child smuggling to money laundering and firearms offences.
It is even claimed some of the children were deliberately disfigured to increase earning potential - with all cash going straight into the pockets of the gang.
The children - the youngest just a few months old - have been taken into care.
Roma Migrants Heading For Western Europe