https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Oslo has chartered a special flight to return 140 homeless people from the Roma minority back to their homes in Romania, the city's mayor Raymond Johansen announced on Tuesday evening. https://www.thelocal.no/20200318/oslo-charters-flight-to-return-homeless-romanians Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:50:32 +0100 oslo-charters-flight-to-return-homeless-romanians The police in Oslo are often racist and discriminate against Roma and African homeless people, a damning new report from Norway's National Institute for Human Rights has found. https://www.thelocal.no/20150825/oslo-police-slammed-for-roma-discrimination Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:33:12 +0200 oslo-police-slammed-for-roma-discrimination There is no evidence that Romanian beggars in northern Europe are managed by organised crime groups, according to a new report from Norwegian social research foundation Fafo. https://www.thelocal.no/20150616/roma-beggars-not-run-by-crime-groups-say-researchers Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:31:50 +0200 roma-beggars-not-run-by-crime-groups-say-researchers Almost half children born to Roma Norwegians in Oslo are in foster care or risk being taken into it, the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muižnieks has claimed in a highly critical report. https://www.thelocal.no/20150519/a-quarter-of-roma-kids-in-norway-in-foster-care Tue, 19 May 2015 02:00:00 +0200 a-quarter-of-roma-kids-in-norway-in-foster-care The Norwegian parliament on Monday began debating controversial anti-begging legislation that critics say targets the country's Roma minority. https://www.thelocal.no/20140616/norway-parliament-debates-begging-ban Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:44:51 +0200 norway-parliament-debates-begging-ban Norway could introduce a national ban on begging next year after the country's ruling right-wing coalition struck a deal giving it majority support for the measure. https://www.thelocal.no/20140611/deal-opens-way-to-national-begging-ban Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:21:00 +0200 deal-opens-way-to-national-begging-ban Norway has seen few extra Romanians and Bulgarians since it lifted border restrictions at the end of 2012, belying fears in the UK of a floods of migrants. https://www.thelocal.no/20140116/norway-sees-few-new-romanians-after-opening-border Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:46:00 +0100 norway-sees-few-new-romanians-after-opening-border Norwegian police on Thursday evicted the Roma immigrants who have been been camping for the last six months in the woods surrounding Sognsvann lake outside Oslo. https://www.thelocal.no/20131122/roma-evicted-from-wood-outside-oslo Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:52:12 +0100 roma-evicted-from-wood-outside-oslo Roma immigrants camping in Sognsvann wood outside Oslo have received their final eviction notice and now have a week to leave. https://www.thelocal.no/20131115/roma-camp-to-be-evicted-before-the-snow Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:38:03 +0100 roma-camp-to-be-evicted-before-the-snow Norway's new government plans to to push local municipalities to ban begging, in a move aimed at cutting the number of Roma immigrants in the country's city centres. https://www.thelocal.no/20131009/new-norway-gov-to-ban-begging Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:09:00 +0200 new-norway-gov-to-ban-begging Roma immigrants living in the woods outside Oslo will resist police attempts to move them, after a court ruled the camp illegal, a Roma rights campaigner has told The Local. https://www.thelocal.no/20130913/oslo-roma-will-resist-any-eviction-campaigner Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:07:00 +0200 oslo-roma-will-resist-any-eviction-campaigner Oslo police have arrested more Romanian nationals than Norwegians this year for burglary, car-theft, pick-pocketing and other property crimes. https://www.thelocal.no/20130806/oslo-police-arrest-more-romanians-for-theft-than-norwegians Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:37:00 +0200 oslo-police-arrest-more-romanians-for-theft-than-norwegians Six out of ten Norwegian politicians favour introducing a ban on begging in cities, a poll carried out by news agency ANB has revealed, showing that rhetoric aimed at Roma immigrants is starting to have an impact. https://www.thelocal.no/20130731/majority-of-norway-politicians-favour-beggar-ban Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:14:12 +0200 majority-of-norway-politicians-favour-beggar-ban Statsbygg, the Norwegian government's key advisor in construction and property affairs, has submitted a petition to the Oslo City Court calling for the eviction of Roma who camp on their land by Sognsvann. https://www.thelocal.no/20130712/norway-state-advisor-calls-for-roma-eviction Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:59:00 +0200 norway-state-advisor-calls-for-roma-eviction The Salvation Army has said there are fewer European migrants asking for money on Oslo's streeets this summer compared to figures last year that had certain observers warning of an "invasion of beggars", while others warned such talk was close to racist "propaganda". https://www.thelocal.no/20130704/invasion-of-beggars-fails-to-materialize-oslo-norway-roma Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:15:00 +0200 invasion-of-beggars-fails-to-materialize-oslo-norway-roma A temporary Roma camp in a stone quarry on the outskirts of Oslo is set to be dismantled on Friday after the two owners of the land reached an agreement to close the controversial site. https://www.thelocal.no/20120720/owners-agree-to-shut-down-roma-camp Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:36:00 +0200 owners-agree-to-shut-down-roma-camp A group of Roma people camping on a desolate site on the outskirts of Oslo must evacuate the area or face eviction, according to one of the owners of the land. https://www.thelocal.no/20120719/landowner-calls-for-evacuation-of-roma-camp Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:58:00 +0200 landowner-calls-for-evacuation-of-roma-camp Centre Party MP Jenny Klinge has called for Norway to tackle organized crime by reasserting control over its own borders and leaving the Schengen border union. https://www.thelocal.no/20120718/norway-must-close-borders-to-keep-out-crime-klinge Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:44:00 +0200 norway-must-close-borders-to-keep-out-crime-klinge Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has called on Norwegians not to discriminate against Roma people amid growing discontent over the establishment of temporary campsites in the capital Oslo. https://www.thelocal.no/20120717/stoltenberg-saddened-by-verbal-abuse-of-roma Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:45:00 +0200 stoltenberg-saddened-by-verbal-abuse-of-roma A gang of Romanian women is targeting elderly women across Norway in a series of often brutal jewellery robberies, with 20 such crimes reported in Oslo alone over the last two week, police have said. https://www.thelocal.no/20120405/romanian-gang-targeting-elderly-women-police Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:26:00 +0200 romanian-gang-targeting-elderly-women-police