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Immigration

States reject mass deportations of Roma

State interior ministers on Saturday said there would be no French-style mass deportations of Roma in Germany. But there was also criticism of the government's Roma policy.

European Union

Berlin shares EU concerns about French Roma deportations

Germany said Thursday that it fully supported European Commission concerns about French treatment of Roma but said that the EU justice commissioner could have been "more measured" in her comments.

Immigration

German-born Roma teens face tough new life

For two teenage Roma sisters, life has turned into a nightmare since they were expelled from Germany, the only home they had ever known, and forced to settle in Kosovo, a country they had never seen.

Immigration

Looking for the Kreuzberg Romani

When a group of Roma and Sinti started camping out in Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg at the end of May, media chaos broke out. Leftists took them in, then turned them over to a church; the church turned them out and the authorities dithered helplessly before finally putting them in temporary accommodation in Spandau.