BUCHAREST, Romania -- Since the European Union lifted visa requirements for Romanians in January, with a view to Romania's eventually joining the EU, thousands of Gypsies have flooded European cities, ...

Fewer and fewer nomadic gypsies still wander the roads of Romania as people have stopped buying their traditional hand-made pans and buckets. Most Romas abandoned the gypsy way of life and left to ...

It's a Gypsy wedding, and the 15-year-old bride is mourning shattered dreams of studying medicine as she steels herself for a life more Middle Ages than Modern Times. A schoolgirl just weeks ago, she ...

PARIS – France expelled nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a very public effort by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Roma camps and sweep t ...

A Romanian Gypsy leader on Wednesday compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania’s pro-Nazi wartime leader, following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France. Speaking during an ...

PARIS – PARIS (AP) — France was deporting nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a very public effort by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Roma ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania — In the Somesheni neighborhood in the Transylvanian capital city of Cluj-Napoca, nine Catholic Gypsy families live inside un-insulated metal boxes that act like iceboxes in the ...

PARIS — France expelled nearly 100 Gypsies to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a public effort by President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Gypsy camps and sweep them out of the country, the ...

Romania’s government has caused outrage among Romany — or Gypsy — communities and organizations after it asked Parliament in Bucharest to accept a proposal to change the official name of the Romany ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Based on fieldwork (primarily in southern Romania), this article treats identity-construction among professional male Romani musicians, ...

TIRGU BUJOR, Romania -- Tired of reading soap opera subtitles to his wife when they watched TV, Costel Pitigoi told her she should learn to read them herself. So Maria Pitigoi joined 29 other women in ...

At first, fans politely applauded the Roma performers sharing a stage with Madonna. Then the pop star condemned widespread discrimination against Roma, or Gypsies -- and the cheers gave way to jeers.