R Is for Romania, Roma and Racism in Europe's Migration Debate
The recession can explain some of the hysteria, but there is also a strong whiff of anti-Roma racism in much of the debate.
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Read the popular press in the U.K. and Germany over the past months, and you would hold the following truths to be self-evident:
None of this has much to do with reality. The recession can explain some of the hysteria, but there is also a strong whiff of anti-Roma racism in much of the debate -- Romania is home to Europe's largest Roma population, still known to some as Gypsies.