Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Bernard Rorke was born in Dublin and has lived in Budapest since 1997. He has an MSc in Politics and Sociology from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He has been active on Roma issues for over 15 years, and currently works as advocacy officer for the ERRC and teaches Roma Rights at the Central European University, Budapest.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Racism's cruelest cut: coercive sterilisation of Romani women and their fight for justice in the Czech Republic (1966-2016)A government-sponsored eugenics programme in Czechoslovakia sterilised Roma women without their knowledge; though...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Slovakia: Roma exclusion and the dark side of democracyThe EU should heed Slovakia consistently falling short of ‘Council of Europe standards’ in a seemingly inexorable...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The end of a decade: what happened to Roma inclusion?Ten years ago the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 was launched. Now that the Decade has been formally closed, it...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Anti-Gypsyism 25 years on: Europe fails Havel’s litmus testTwenty-five years after the fall of communism, it still hasn't sunk in that racism and exclusion is not a ‘Gypsy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary's Fidesz and its 'Jewish Question'Hungary’s Fidesz government may not have pursued a state-sponsored policy of anti-Semitism. However, it has indulged...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Roma integration and 'a normal way of living'Roma integration in Europe has shifted to a right-wing definition of integration where the onus is being placed on...