Italy, Romania seek EU help with Roma

The Prime Ministers of Italy and Romania made a joint appeal on 7 November 2007 to the European Union to tackle problems stemming from immigration, particularly that of transient Roma, or Gypsy, communities.

Romano Prodi and Calin Popescu Tariceanu made the appeal in a letter to Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, following talks prompted by the savage murder of an Italian woman in Rome, allegedly by a Romanian immigrant from the Roma community.