New violences against Roma in Hungary

Another deadly attack against the Roma community.

There are here two problems.

Roma is a huge transnational minority, with lots of problems and, mainly in Eastern Europe, lacking the proper organisation allowing them to defend in an organised way their rights. EU is mostly unable to tackle this issue, as the Central and Eastern European countries should go beyond a long inherited racism.

On the other side, you have an increasing violent and aggresive extreme-right, targeting - for the moment - mostly the Roma minority, without being countered with the proper tough actions. Finding the perpetrators of deadly attacks is in many cases a closed case, without any result.

Are the Central European countries ables to react in full awareness to those past threats to their present and future?

Political design - Referendum in Switzerland, February 8, 2009

February 8, in Switzerland it will take place a referendum to decide if the citizens from Romania and Bulgaria, the last entries in EU, will enjoy the same right of free movement in and out of this country as the other older members.

An advertising campaign is on the run from the beginning of the year.

The extreme-right party's billboard - Swiss People's Party (SVP) - don't need too much words. The iconography reminding the representation from the time of the Third Reich (third image) is speaking by himself and is a radical and more aggressive representation in comparison with the billboards displayed for the 2007 campaign for the general elections (second picture). The Free Democratic Party - FDP - is supporting the inclusion of the two countries in the Schengen agreements (first picture).