"We're building communities that speak for themselves"

Seventy-six years after the Schuman Declaration, Europe can no longer afford the costs of Roma political exclusion.

Eight elections in five years left Bulgarians exhausted—and exhaustion, it turns out, is a political force. The April vote reveals what outsiders keep getting wrong about Bulgaria, and why it matters for Europe.

Romania's Social Democrats have allied with a hard-nationalist party that explicitly excludes Roma from the Romanian nation. The democratic firewall has fallen—and Roma will immediately feel the effects.