France’s Hollande urged to act as Roma row splits govt (AFP, 30 septembre 2013)

Par Angus MacKinnon.

 » President Francois Hollande was under mounting pressure to call his squabbling ministers to order Monday as a row over the treatment of France’s Roma population rumbled on.

Against a background of opposition claims the Socialist-Green coalition is in disarray over the issue, Hollande has so far declined to get embroiled in the dispute triggered by Interior Minister Manuel Valls’s claim that most Roma in France will never integrate and should be sent back to their countries of origin…

… The sniping at Valls from the Green and left of his own party continued unabated on Monday with Green Senator Esther Benbassa branding his attitudes on the Roma as « quite simply unacceptable… »

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