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03/04/2012 - FRANCE - IMMIGRATION

'Illegal' Roma teenager wins French 'best apprentice' award

Cristina Dumitru was told she would get her coveted "carte de séjour", a short-term residency permit, the day after the French Senate awarded her a prize for being the best apprentice in her professional field. No coincidence, says the teenager.

15/11/2011 - PLANET HOPE

Roma: integration school

An estimated 2.5 million Roma people live in Romania. Here, the government has fully understood the importance of education in integrating the community into wider society. But in practice, going to school often brings new problems for these Roma families.

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04/10/2011 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

François Hollande: 'Normal politics is moral politics'

In Tuesday's French papers - Socialist presidential candidate François Hollande makes a plea for more moral politics, the sometimes thin line between cops and robbers, and the persecution of Roma people in Eastern Europe.

26/09/2011 - THE WEEK IN EUROPE

Greece: is curing the economy making things worse?

Greeks are feeling the pinch as the government announces another wave of austerity measures. Also, a town in Hungary is forcing unemployed Romas to earn their keep under a controversial scheme. Finally, in Spain the matadors hang up their swords - animal rights activists celebrate the end of bullfighting in Catalonia.

23/09/2011 - REPORTERS

Is France the promised land for Roma people?

Ever since Romania joined the EU in 2007, France has been faced with an influx of Roma dreaming of a better life. But often the road ends with expulsion and they are sent back to square one. Far from being discouraged, these Roma immigrants refuse to give up on living in France, and cross the border again and again. France 24 followed one such family on their quest to fulfil their French dream.

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02/09/2011 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

'State liars'

Two stories dominate today's French papers: government monitoring of a Le Monde journalist, and the use of a tram to remove Roma people from a camp. Both fuel debate about President Nicolas Sarkozy’s handling of domestic issues. That’s the focus for this review of the French press, Friday 2nd September 2011.

27/08/2011 - EUROPE DISTRICT

Montenegro: in Croatia's footsteps (part 2)

The Montenegrin government wants to exploit the country’s hydropower potential, but environmentalists are up in arms against dam projects on the beautiful Moroca river. Our reporter also met Roma refugees from Kosovo who have spent the last ten years in a camp near Podgorica. Finally, we tell you about mysterious medieval stones, and we visit the country through the artistic eyes of a cinema professor.

27/07/2011 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

“The golden rule”

FRENCH PAPERS, Wed. 27/07/11. Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing forward a proposal to write a deficit-balancing rule into the constitution. The measure is facing strong opposition from Socialists who say it's a publicity stunt in the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election. And a year after his controversial speech against the Roma community, Libération says the French President’s repressive campaign has been a major failure.

26/07/2011 - MEDIAWATCH

Sending Roma home does not work, says aid agency one year on

MEDIAWATCH Tues., 26/07/11: One year after Nicolas Sarkozy controversially vowed to expel Roma immigrants from France, an aid agency says the policy is a failure; a row about stealing vegetables - what's wrong with waste not want not?; why wild boars in Brittany are dropping dead; and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's musical fan.

25/07/2011 - THE WEEK IN EUROPE

Norway: portrait of the suspected killer

Norway mourns the victims of the twin terror attacks in Oslo and on a nearby island. The man who admitted to the mass killing said he was trying to save Europe. The tragedy puts renewed focus on the far-right elsewhere on the continent. And in Italy, the parlous state of a Roman treasure fuels anger at the Berlusconi government's heritage cuts.