A Hungarian school unlawfully segregated minority Roma students for years, the country’s top court said in a final ruling on Tuesday, granting 100 million forints ($310,000) in compensation to the children’s families.

Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is at odds with the European Union for his perceived erosion of the rule of law, hinted in January that the state should disobey any court order to pay restitution to the Roma and provide training instead.

The Kuria (Supreme Court) case involved an elementary school in Gyongyospata, a town that has been a flashpoint of ethnic tensions in the past.

“The supreme legal forum upheld... (an earlier) ruling which mandated a 100 million forint damages payment,” the Kuria said in a statement. “Students from the Roma ethnic minority were unlawfully segregated and given substandard education.”

The ruling was a “bad decision which upends social peace as it unilaterally and overhwelmingly punishes a whole town for the real or imagined grievances of a minority”, Laszlo Horvath, Orban’s special envoy on resolving Roma issues, told national news agency MTI in a video message.

Link: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-hungary-roma-segregation-ruling/hungarian-top-court-confirms-roma-unlawfully-segregated-awards-damages-idUKKBN22O2F8?fbclid=IwAR2_emWurlUDR6neG5uuCh9Gq_UwHdLZTglpPORSkCrOWFRdcPPgFizjsPA

With the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia at the time of the coronavirus, which came into force on April 24, it is the same date that it will be considered that every adult citizen of Serbia has the right to state aid in the amount of 100 euros.

In order to acquire the right to assistance, it is necessary for every adult citizen of Serbia to have a valid ID card with an active place of residence in Serbia.

It is also necessary for everyone to have their own bank account, and if there is no money, the Ministry of Finance will take care of that.

They will be able to do so on the published telephone number from May 15 and the registration will be from June 1 to 5, 2020.

Anyone who is an adult citizen of Serbia by the date 24 April 2020 will be able to register on that phone number to leave their ID number, ID card number and the name of the bank where they have their bank account. Name and surname will not be required.

Link: https://www.juznevesti.com/Ekonomija/Pravila-za-100-evra-Ko-je-do-24-aprila-bio-punoletan-dobija-novac-prijave-od-petka-sa-licnom-kartom.sr.html?fbclid=IwAR2wPAkFpZzX54l-u4rNXRagmhF6TMa3jLBjmyqfREtabZrfxF6giHhzuu4