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Post by tufta on Aug 24, 2010 19:16:43 GMT 1
THE French government has begun expelling hundreds of Roma it says have settled in the country illegally. Most of them are Romanian nationals. In Bucharest, many see the move as unfair and opportunisticFull text www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/08/frances_expulsion_romaReader's comment which I agree with: In the nineties, when the Roma were stuck in Eastern Europe, every do gooder was preaching the Easterners about “integrating the roma”. Now, when the roma moved West, the preachers forgot their nice advice and dicuss mainly on how to throw the roma out and keep them out, also dwelling on the addagio that their mesures are not racist.
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 24, 2010 20:01:05 GMT 1
THE French government has begun expelling hundreds of Roma it says have settled in the country illegally. Most of them are Romanian nationals. In Bucharest, many see the move as unfair and opportunisticFull text www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/08/frances_expulsion_romaReader's comment which I agree with: In the nineties, when the Roma were stuck in Eastern Europe, every do gooder was preaching the Easterners about “integrating the roma”. Now, when the roma moved West, the preachers forgot their nice advice and dicuss mainly on how to throw the roma out and keep them out, also dwelling on the addagio that their mesures are not racist. Roma people are problematic, indeed. Most of them don`t want to engage in normal social life that other people create, but they only want to suck profits from authorities and state. I may have a distorted view on them, but I met a few gypsies and they are different, indeed. And are proud of this difference. However, this isn`t a difference that Polish Highlanders display who are integrated into the society. Roma people don`t want to integrate, they intentionally live on the margin. What should a Roma person do so that I could view him/her without suspicion? 1. Take up normal decent work instead of sucking on the state or engaging in dirty dealings. 2. Send children to school and allow them to get full schooling. Use the profits obtained from the government for their kids` better education. 3. Stop marriages of 12, 13, 14 year old girls. 4. Stop treating other people as suckers who should close an eye to everything what Roma people do. Stop cheating decent citizens. 5 Stop begging at churches or streets. 6 Stop discriminating gypsy females by their males, e.g, give up the custom that a woman is a dirty creature and even talking about her may be smearing. I am a bit prejudiced, I know. But if Gypsies don`t want to integrate, why should I press them to that? |
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Post by tufta on Aug 24, 2010 21:44:50 GMT 1
I am a bit prejudiced, I know. I don't think so, Bo ;D Talk to a Slovak, especially to a Slovak from eastern Slovakia where Roma people are many, and you'll see what means being hard on Roma people. So, I think you are quite right. And the present case from France is yet another example of hypocrisy. |
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Post by tufta on Aug 25, 2010 20:40:34 GMT 1
Old boys club dominates EU diplomacy
ANDREW RETTMAN
Today @ 09:26 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Belgian, Dutch, Italian, French and German men make up the lion's share of EU ambassadors abroad, a new study timed to coincide with a major recruitment round for the European External Action Service (EEAS), has said.
The five founding members of the EU together have 66 heads of delegation out of the EU's 115 foreign missions which are run by an official with the top-level grade.
The UK and Spain, two large countries which joined the EU later down the line, hold another 20, the report, by the Polish Institute for Foreign Relations, has shown. In contrast, the 10 countries which joined after 2004 have just two.
The current distribution of top-level foreign posts reflects old colonial ties. Portugal and Spain between them lead five EU embassies in Latin America. Former colonial powers have all but three out of the EU's national representations in Africa.
The gross imbalance also goes against women.
Just 11 out of the 115 ambassadors are women, accounting for less than 10 percent, even though women make up 52 percent of European Commission personnel overall and 37 percent of staff in the commission's foreign relations department.
"From personal experience, not even having a 'Western' education (or being a female from Central and Eastern Europe) helps when heads of units are consistently German, French, Italian or Belgian," Ana (not her real name), an EU commission applicant who passed the entry exam but can not find a placement, told EUobserver.
The Polish survey comes at a crucial moment in EEAS recruitment, with the EU's foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, who has made numerous rhetorical pledges to hire more people from eastern Europe and more women, about to take on an extra 111 diplomats.
The first tranche of posts, for 31 heads of delegation and deputy heads of delegation, is due to be doled out in September, with interviews ahead of Brussels' summer recess already narrowing the field to just 65 candidates.
The second tranche, for a head of delegation in Belarus, and 79 political officers, policy officers, heads of political section and deputy heads of delegation across the world, is due to be finalised in October and November.
Ms Ashton will at the same time be giving out the 20-or-so top administrative jobs in the EEAS in Brussels, with new member states Poland and Romania in the running for influential roles.
The competition between men, women and individual EU countries stands alongside a competition between existing commission staff and member states' diplomats keen to get into the prestigious new service.
EU officials' trade unions have voiced annoyance that the vacancy notice for the 80 posts in question seem to have a bias in favour of member states.
Most member states' diplomats who take up policy officer jobs will start out at the AD12 grade in the EU civil service system, while commission staff taking the same positions will keep their old (lower) grade, earning less pay.
National diplomats are being asked for fewer years of experience relative to higher grades. And several posts are being offered to commission applicants with a minimum AD9/AD14 grade, while the same posts are open to national diplomats with an A7 or equivalent grade.
"We wonder how this difference can be compatible with the agreed principle of equal treatment of all EEAS staff, irrespective of origin, reflected in the Decision establishing the service?" a trade union official said.euobserver.com/9/30672
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 15, 2010 21:02:16 GMT 1
Top European Union officials (beaurocrats from Brussels) warn France that legal procedures against it will start unless Romanian gypsies are left in peace.
Today Sarkozy answered: if Commissars care so much about gypsies, they should take them to their homes. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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