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An overview of the difficulties in gathering data about the Roma people and the Gipsy community.

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Which, in Bulgaria, may soon become the major ethnic group of the country - with though implications.

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Last year a big deal of Europe’s attention was attracted by the expulsion of Roma people from France, which arose many public condemns.

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The gypsy community in Bulgaria is growing steadily and constantly, subverting the ethnical structure of the country.

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in 2050 Romas and Bulgarians will equalize in number: is this a prophecy or an insightful analysis of the forthcoming geopolitical situation?

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he Bulgarian National Statistics Institute Bulgaria has 7.563.710 million inhabitants, of which the age group 0-14 amounts to 1.026.200,

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Bulgarians, 9.4 % as Turks, 4.7 % (or 370.908 individuals) as Gypsies , 0.2 % as Russians, 0.1 % as Armenians.

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In 1934 the gypsy minority was composed of 150.000 members and until 1956 they amounted approximately to 2.5% of the total population.

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the Bulgarian communist party focused on the assimilation and depersonalization of the ethnic group, including also their obligatory settlement.

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