ROMA AND THE DOUBLE STANDARDS OF EUROPEAN MIGRATION, NOT IN MY BACKYARD! Equal Rights until they show up. The last decade’s enlargement of the EU has given the right to work and travel freely in the EU to millions in Eastern and Central Europe. Accordingly, millions of Romanians and Bulgarians have taken advantage of this right and went to Western Europe in search of a better life. This has not been greeted with enthusiasm in some sections of the Western media. The expiration of working rights restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian citizens in 2014 was even less so. Last year, a fair number of Western European media outlets ran alerting headlines about an imminent ‘invasion of Romanians and Bulgarians, who would, supposedly, bankrupt the welfare state, commit all sorts of heinous (petty) crime and even bring upon the UK a new form of super-resistant tuberculosis. This sort of alarmist rhetoric has been present especially in the UK, where anti-immigration is tied with anti-EU sentiments, though other countries have went beyond rhetoric and adopted anti-immigration policies, such as Switzerland. https://romediafoundation.wordpress/2014/05/12/the-roma-and-migration-in-the-eu/
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