Commentary

Vojtěch Lavička: Czech TV show featuring Romani guys in drag is low "humor" of the fifth-rate category

13.4.2021 7:13  full story

MEP Peter Pollák on World Roma Day: Mere declarations of willingness to solve problems not enough, it's time for results

8.4.2021 17:47  full story

Czech activist on 8 April: the Romani position in society is deteriorating, zero results from the financing invested

8.4.2021 13:18  full story

videoZeljko Jovanovic: The New Roma Politics of Self-Determination and Unity

8.4.2021 11:08  full story

Czech clergyman proposes the readers themselves choose the names of Holocaust victims to be read on Yom Hashoah this year, whether Jewish or Romani

6.4.2021 9:03  full story

Petr Mati, social pedagogue, tells Czech Health Minister his communication style about COVID-19 is demotivating

27.2.2021 8:14  full story

Commentary: Czech right-wing populists close to destroying lifesaving social protections

11.2.2021 8:46  full story

COMMENTARY: Romale, Bill Gates does not want to track you, vaccinations against COVID-19 will not kill you and do not involve microchips

14.1.2021 12:04  full story

COMMENTARY: Trump's bucket of filth

8.1.2021 13:10  full story

Is Czech compensation for forced sterilizations in sight?

19.12.2020 9:37  full story

Slovak MP of Romani origin Peter Pollák, Jr.: COVID-19 isn't racist

16.12.2020 18:22  full story

Commentary: Senator infamous for antigypsyist remarks about the "cikánská question" joins regional party in the Czech Republic

8.12.2020 7:39  full story

Commentary: Czech Social Democrats sink to the level of ultra-nationalists with proposal to cut funding to NGOs working with minorities

7.12.2020 8:54  full story

COMMENTARY: Czech TV show portrays Roma as nothing but criminals

5.12.2020 8:15  full story

Commentary: Romani people should not live in fear, but justice systems are not helping

9.4.2017 14:33 At the beginning of March 2012, after the arson attack was committed against a Romani-occupied residential hotel in Aš, I and other members of the Romea.cz editorial team set out to visit the crime scene. We were unable to find out anything more by being there in person.  full story

Julius Zajac: Ideological extremism is no longer "rising" - it's already here

6.4.2017 15:52 On Wednesday, 22 March, a terrorist attack happened in London, England. On Thursday, 23 March, police thwarted another such attack in Antwerp, Belgium.  full story

Commentary: Paradoxes in the war on political correctness

31.3.2017 21:01 The war against political correctness is a long-term process that was begun in the Czech Republic by ultra-right extremists during the 1990s. Their motive was apparent: They wanted to legitimize racism and xenophobia so their own "politics" would be acceptable to the broadest possible circle of voters.  full story

Commentary: Czech Foreign Minister is all over the map when it comes to the issue of freedom of movement - why?

28.3.2017 11:04 My favorite demagogue, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek, is once again shining like a supernova in the night sky. He has declared war on the free movement of persons on the labor market inside the European Union.
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Jana Šedivcová: Are all Czech children cat killers and all Romani children flamingo killers? Collective blame is unacceptable

17.3.2017 15:03 When I heard the news that children had killed one rare flamingo and seriously harmed another at the zoo in Jihlava, it made me dizzy. I felt the same when, the next day, a video appeared "on the net" of other children in another town who almost killed a cat by hanging it.  full story

Patrik Banga: I'm for collecting ethnic data in all areas, but the majority can't tell who is Romani

17.3.2017 10:17 Ivan Langr (Greens), Vice-Mayor of Liberec in charge of social affairs, has rebelled against the methodology recommended for estimating the number of Romani people in the regions that he has received from the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. As has already happened here more than once, Langr has sparked a tempestuous
discussion about whether estimating the numbers of Romani people should even happen and if so, what the appropriate method is to use.  full story