The images earlier this month of far right supporters armed with stones and petrol bombs besieging a Roma community in the town of Litvinov in the Czech Republic are a powerful reminder that violent racism is not a distant memory in the European Union....
Sat 22 Nov 2008 by Gay McDougall | Read more »
Ask any random person in the streets of Edinburgh whether the EU is good or bad and chances are you will hear a tirade about just how impossible bureaucracy is, even if they know little about the EU. But in the streets of Edinburgh, chances are that th...
Sat 22 Mar 2008 by Joanna Hosa | Read more »
An Edinburgh landlord has been profiting from housing over 50 Romanian migrants in squalid conditions, an exclusive investigation by The Journal can reveal. Dalear Singh, aged 30, has been charging migrant families from £300 to £400 per mon...
Tue 04 Dec 2007 by Miles Johnson | Read more »
As part of a series on shift workers, the BBC recently produced an interesting set of photos of a Polish bakery and its team of hardworking migrant workers – interesting not just in its depiction of the finishing touches to savoury cheese twists,...
Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Evan Beswick | Read more »
On 1 January 2007, two and a half years after the unprecedented enlargement of 2004, Bulgaria and Romania became the newest members of the EU. However, unlike the other eight former Communist states which joined in 2004, Bulgarian and Romanian migrant ...
Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Matthew Barnes | Read more »
Sonya came to Britain from Romania with the promise of work and a place to live. Told by a man in her home country that he would find her and her family jobs where they could earn £400 a week, the prospect of life in Edinburgh seemed all too temp...
Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Miles Johnson | Read more »
