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France Eases Plight Of Romany Immigrants

People from a Romany community are expelled by police from their camp in Villeurbanne, outside Lyon, earlier this month.

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August 22, 2012

The French government has revealed measures to ease Romany integration.

France has faced strong international criticism for years for its expulsions and police raids on makeshift Romany camps.

Many of the Romany immigrants seeking jobs in France come from Romania and Bulgaria, both newcomers to the European Union.

The government said it will scrap a tax making it more expensive for employers to hire Romany workers and expand the list of jobs open to immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania.

There are an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Roma currently living in illegal and often squalid makeshift camps across France.

Based on reporting by Reuters and dpa

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by: Jack from: US

August 22, 2012 23:05

historically over centuries French, Germans, and British were expelling and killing Gypsies. Which is why so many Gypsies settled in Bulgaria and Romania. Most of Romanians are Gypsies. French and Germans should accept all Gypsies from Bulgaria and Romania and Serbia and elsewhere. Also French and Germans must abondon their Nazi mentality and accept more Muslims from Chechnya and Kosovo and Syria. Germans and French love Muslims, as long as Muslims are somewhere else. French and Germans must bring Muslims closer to their homes

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by: Cean Worcestor from: Sighisoara, Romania

September 04, 2012 03:57

Well, it's not exactly true that the Roma settled in Bulgaria and Romania because they were being expelled from the western European nations mentioned above. They actually immigrated from much further east several hundred years ago and have made southeastern Europe their home ever since. It is also not true that most Romanians are Roma. The Roma population is approximately 10% of Romania's total population. With that being said, I do agree that the discrimination against the Roma in all of Europe (not just France, Germany and Great Britain) must come to an end...