"We're building communities that speak for themselves"

As Bulgaria confronts rising public frustration, the long-overlooked experience of Roma citizens reveals both the depth of the system’s failings and the potential the country wastes when it sidelines a community that could help stabilise its future.

The new law shows how quickly fear can become policy, sending a signal across Europe that treating a minority as a security threat is no longer unthinkable.

A disturbing attack on a young Roma boy, recorded and shared online, signals a moral and institutional failure.