Costel Bercus: The European Commission Seems to Downplay Roma Issues
Costel Bercus is a Romanian Roma who was the first Chairman of the Roma Education Fund, an NGO established in…
Deny Dobobrov: Superficial Representation – Observing, Consulting, and Serving as Experts – Will Never Get Us Anywhere
Deny Dobobrov is an American Roma born in the USA to an immigrant family from former Yugoslavia. He is serving…
Kenan Emini: Nobody Cares About Roma in Brussels. We Don’t Have Big Lobby
Kenan Emini is a Roma refugee from Kosovo to Germany. He is the chairman of Roma Center e.V., co-chair of…
Cayetano Fernandez: It is Time for Collective Political Strategy and Break with Subordination, Integrationism and Dependency
Cayetano Fernández is co-founder of the anti-racist collective ”Kale Amenge”, an autonomous Roma political initiative in Spain that over the last decade…
Murat Haliti: Without Strong Roma Advocacy We Can Not Expect Policy Change in EU
When I asked Murat Haliti do you see connection between the Kosovo crisis and current crisis he replied that it…
What does it Mean to “Suffer Peacefully”?
Twenty-five years ago, in August 1999, Murat Haliti and his family fled their home in Prizren, Kosovo, to escape Albanian…
Petar Antic: Roma Need a European Self-Governing Body to Overcome Marginalization
Petar Antic is a Roma rights defender from Serbia who was among the first to speak publicly about the need…
Britt-Inger Hedström Lundqvist: The Lack of Roma Representation is a Democratic Problem for EU
An opinion by the editor and senior advisor of Magasin DIKKO Britt-Inger Hedström Lundqvist about the Roma representation crisis in…
Roma Opinions on the Representation Crisis: Prof. Ian Hancock “We Have No Dumukh”
“In Brussels there is no more (Roma) movement. We are here, we are close to the institutions but we are…
Where are the Roma? Analysis of the Ideological Crisis in the Roma Movement
“After a century in which totalitarianism and racist madness, world wars and genocide, blind destruction and mass deportations have brought…