Several city authorities across Italy are clearing out gypsy settlements, blaming rising crime on a mass influx of migrants caused by European Union enlargement. Local activists have denounced what ...

Behind the burnt caravans, smoking car wreckage, and a scattering of disintegrating foodstuffs is a line of nomads fleeing from what were once their homes. It was a scene which occurred repeatedly ...

STRASBOURG, France – European Union lawmakers on Monday condemned Italian moves to fingerprint tens of thousands of Gypsies living in camps across the country as discriminatory. The EU lawmakers ...

BRUSSELS – Italy has assured the EU that its policy of fingerprinting Roma does not discriminate against them, the EU's top justice official said Thursday. Amnesty International strongly disagreed, ...

ROME — Italy's interior minister has touched off a storm with a proposal to fingerprint Gypsies living in camps in Italy, including children. The proposal, made as part of a campaign by Prime Minister ...