EU Funds Building Roma Ghettos in Italy
By Bernard Rorke October 13, 2026 An Italian housing rights collective and the ERRC have called on the European Commission to suspend payments to Calabria Region and urgently investigate the chronic mismanagement and alleged misuse of EU funds to reproduce housing segregation, following the scandalous enactment of a “non-existent State of Emergency” that undermines Roma residents’ right to housing. A new report strongly suggests that despite previous commitments to the EU, th
ERRC
2 days ago
Country Report: Ireland October 2026
By Senan Monks O'Connell Street during the 2023 Dublin riots. Image by Brian Lawless/PA via The Irish Examiner Historical atrocities like the Cromwellian Conquest, the Great Hunger and Bloody Sunday shape Irish national memory, as does past discrimination of Irish immigrants in the United Kingdom and United States. Today, minorities within Ireland face similar prejudice. Mincéirí (Irish Travelers) are a native, traditionally nomadic ethnic group of around 33,000 people with a
Genocide Watch
Oct 8
Ireland-Israel football matches opposed by critics
By Raf Diallo September 26, 2026 Pro-Palestine banners were a regular sight at Irish soccer matches before the national side were drawn against Israel On Sunday evening in Hungary's second largest city, the Republic of Ireland will play the most talked about match of this expanded international window. But unlike other anticipated ties such as Germany's trip to the Netherlands or England hosting Spain, many of the players involved are unhappy the game in Debrecen is even happ
RTÉ
Oct 5
German town bans memorials to Nazi victims
By Bethany Bell September 26, 2026 Credit : BBC There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis. Germany's Education Minister Karin Prien told newspaper Bild that the ban was a "scandal". Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims
BBC News
Oct 2
Roma Rights Network Reports Persecution in Europe
By European Roma Rights Centre August 7, 2026 Brussels, 11 August 2026: The Roma Rights Network today published the first issue of the relaunched Roma Rights Review, the most comprehensive assessment of the human rights situation of Europe's largest ethnic minority. Built on the direct testimony, casework, analysis, and field documentation of 34 member organisations across 18 countries, the Roma Rights Review stands as the authoritative source on the situation of Roma Rights
ERRC
Sep 28
Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco
By Al Jazeera September 13, 2026 The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. Spain’s proposed citizenship route for Sahrawis is bringing its colonial legacy in Western Sahara back into the political spotlight and testing its delicate ties with Morocco [Hannah McNeish/Al Jazeera] Spain’s Congress has approved a bill that would open a special route to Spanish citizenship for Sahrawis born in Western Sahara while the disputed
Al Jazeera
Sep 23
Fascist Squads Patrol The Streets In Valencia, Spain
By Joaquín Gil August 29, 2026 The far-right political party España 2000 uses an NGO as cover to monitor neighbourhoods that have large immigrant populations They call themselves the “Angels of the Night.” On paper, they present themselves as a grassroots neighborhood group alarmed by rising crime in Valencia. Dressed in black T-shirts and caps bearing a silver logo of two children holding hands beneath angel wings, the self-styled vigilantes are preparing to patrol the stree
El País
Sep 22
Reshaping Europe Through Parliament
By: Alexander Smith Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid, February 8-9, 2025. (X/Viktor Orban). The far right has resurged across Europe. Over the past decade, the United Kingdom left the European Union (EU) after a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment; the National Front in France took more than 100 seats in the French parliament; Germany's right-wing became the second largest party in its parliament; dissatisfaction with mainstream governments surged across the c
Genocide Watch
Aug 23
Securitization and Radicalization in France
Part Two: How Securitization Drives Radicalization By Vladimir Kovtun Genocide Watch The mother of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian descent who died in 2023 after being shot by a policeman, on top of a van during a demonstration in Nanterre (France). Photo by Bertrand Guay (AFP) Introduction France has a well-resourced approach to combat radicalism through educating students to value France's republican values, French secularism, and laïcité (in layman’s terms, freed
60,000 far-right extremists in Germany, government says
By: George Wright June 30, 2026 Right-wing extremists remain the greatest threat to German democracy and their number increased significantly to 58,700 last year, the country's domestic intelligence service says. That number is an increase of more than 8,000 on the previous year, the agency says in its annual report, adding that extreme left-wing violence is also on the rise and is an alarm-call for Germany's rule of law. German democracy was under "practically permanent atta
BBC News
Jul 2
Last-minute ban of Iranian opposition rally in Paris
By John Irish A man holds a flag during a protest by supporters of Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in Paris, France, February 8, 2025. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - French police banned the Paris-based NCRI Iranian opposition from holding a rally on Saturday, saying there was a risk of clashes between activists holding opposing views, an argument the group described as "bogus".
Reuters
Jun 30
Italian Lawyers Could Win Indemnities If Immigration Clients Go Home
Italian lawyers could win ‘wild west-style bounties’ if immigration clients go home The Guardian, Angela Giuffrida, 19 April 2026 Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Saturday. The Italian prime minister is trying to clamp down on irregular immigration. Photograph: Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse/ GIORGIA MELONI'S FAR-RIGHT GOVERNMENT TO ASK MPs TO BACK CONTROVERSIAL VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION SCHEME Italian lawyers will be paid bonuses if they successfully convince their immigrant clients to ret
The Guardian
Apr 18
