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to general migratory movements, since 1993 Germany has decided to make a number of amendments in its legislqtiqn. Furthermore, Germany has concluded a repatriation agreement with Romania and there are various return programmes in cooperation with different countries (Pluim 2001: 30).

18 Field researches by Zdenëk Uherek and Renata Weinerová (2001).

19 For more information on the life style of Slovak Roma in the Czech lands see the manuscript of the study by Zdenëk Uherek "The Czech Republic and Roma Migration after 1989” (2001).

20 For example, a quotation from an article published in the Metro daily of 1 July 1999: 2.

" In conjunction with applications of hundreds of Roma for an asylum in Finland, the Slovak government, through its vice-premier for minorities and human rights, addressed the Roma citizens not to yield to “inappropriate practices and initiatives of irresponsible individuals who see a business in this form of ethnotourism“. In the government’s opinion, no Slovak citizen has a reason to emigrate for political or national reasons. “The Finnish authorities have not granted an asylum in even a single case“, points out the spokesman of the vice-premier, Pál Csáky.

21 European Commission, 2000 Regular Report on Slovakia's Progress Towards Accession, 8 November 2000, pp. 21-22.