In a violent incident, residents of a tower block in Göttingen, Germany, clashed with police in an attempt to escape quarantine imposed due to a new spike in coronavirus cases. The lockdown was initiated after two people in the complex tested positive, with 120 cases confirmed by Friday. The clashes involved 200 residents trying to breach a metal barrier keeping 700 people in quarantine. Eight police... 

Romania’s liberal president Klaus Iohannis promulgated the law provisioning for penalties of up to 10 years in jail for “anti-Roma” behavior, defined as “the perception related to Roma expressed as hate,” Hotnews.ro reported. Interestingly, the law mentions the term “anti-gypsy”. This term has been avoided lately and permanently replaced by “anti-Roma.” “Anti-Gypsyism... 

Tornadoes and violent hailstorms killed six tourists including two children in northern Greece late Wednesday, police said. Estimates of the injured ranged from at least 30 to more than 100 after the sudden and violent storm hit Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki, on Wednesday night. Trees were uprooted, vans flipped over and motorcycles scattered through the streets by gale-force winds, as... 

Many thousands of Romanian teenagers are being lured into debt bondage and exploitation by trafficking gangs whose nefarious network is spread all across Europe. Romanian anti-trafficking investigators claim that the UK has become Europe’s biggest market for sex slaves. Girls as young as 10 or 11 are being “exported” throughout Europe, and are sometimes sold by their own parents in a near-medieval... 

Dozens of vulnerable men and boys were kidnapped, chained, whipped, fed scraps and forced to work or fight each other for entertainment over an eight-year period in rural southern Romania, prosecutors said Wednesday. Three men and two boys aged between 10 and 12 were found chained up and were rescued by police Wednesday in the mountain gypsy village of Berevoiesti during searches at the homes of... 

New official figures show Britain’s net annual migration has hit record level with an overall 94,000 rise in 12 months. The figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Thursday indicate a 28% rise with an estimated 330,000 migration since March 2014. This is 10,000 above the highest figure recorded for the year ending June 2005. Accordingly, some 636,000 people immigrated to... 

Anti-immigrant sentiments are on the rise in Britain with more than three-quarters of the people saying that the number of new immigrant arrivals in the country should be limited, a new survey has found. A survey by the British Social Attitudes showed that almost 77 percent of Britons supported a reduction in the number of the immigrants to their country. Out of the 77 percent, 56 percent wanted the... 

Bulgaria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Mladenov Bulgaria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Mladenov has censured the current “mass hysteria” concerning the immigration debate in the UK. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Friday, Mladenov said the warnings issued by some British media outlets about an influx of eastern European migrants to the UK... 

Romania’s Ambassador to the UK Ion Jinga Romanian Ambassador to the UK Ion Jinga has mocked British newspapers and lawmakers waiting for an influx of Romanian immigrants to arrive in the country after transitional controls were lifted. Jinga said the MPs and reporters waiting for the arrival of Romanian immigrants at the London Luton Airport on January 1 “discovered that only two Romanians”... 

French authorities have evicted some 800 Roma immigrants from a campground in northern France, as the controversial treatment of the Roma population in the European country continues. Around 300 police forces attacked the Roma camp in Saint-Ouen in the northern suburbs of Paris early on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of Roma people, including women and children, to leave the place. The cleared shantytown... 

Demonstrators in Transylvania, a historical region in the central part of Romania, pay tribute to the Szekely flag. Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in the central Romanian city of Targu Mures, calling on the government of Romania to grant regional autonomy to the Szekler Land. Szekler Land sits in three Romanian counties: Harghita, Covasna and Targu Mures, the first two of which have... 

France declares war on illegal migrants. Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies. French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes. One hundred... 

Gendarme forces move toward protesters in Piata Universitatii square, Bucharest January 19, 2012. Romania’s Prime Minster Emil Boc has resigned following weeks of public protest against IMF-backed austerity measures amid the debt crisis sweeping the European Union. Announcing his resignation on Television on Monday, Boc said that he wanted to “defuse political and social tension” and... 

Protesters waving Romanian flags shout anti-president slogans atop a monument in the central University Square in Bucharest on January 22, 2012. Romanian protesters have taken to the streets of the capital Bucharest for a tenth consecutive day to demand the resignation of the government over its austerity measures. Scores of protesters again gathered in the capital’s central University Square... 

Romanians have protested in cities around the country for a third day against the government, whom they blame for austerity cuts and falling living standards. One policeman was injured in the Romanian capital Saturday after clashes with demonstrators protesting the government’s austerity programme, AFP reported. Hundreds of Romanians rallied in Bucharest to protest against austerity measures...