According to Eurojust, the EU body that counters organised crime, Portugal is seen as a country where terrorist groups can rest up.
The number of Eurojust cases where Portugal has been called upon to help, rose in 2017, with the country remaining attractive to terrorist groups, "We have been involved in a number of cases, since it seems to be possible to conclude that Portugal will serve as an area of retreat for some of those networks," said the Portuguese representative to Eurojust, António Cluny.
Without going into detail, António Cluny said that the authorities have been asked for information on the activity of 'some groups and some individuals' in Portugal.
Eurojust was called in during the investigation in Portugal into the Moroccan who was suspected of belonging to an international terrorist organisation and was charged by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Another case was that of the Security Information Service officer, Frederico Carvalhão, who was sentenced to seven years and four months espionage and passive corruption.
Eurojust facilitates cooperation, coordination and exchange of multilateral judicial information in cases involving serious cross-border crime. In 2017, fraud topped the list with 700 cases, followed by money laundering (315) and investigations into cross-border organised crime groups (208).
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Perhaps I am sensitive to the feelings of others.... luckily we have a clear and agreed choice of how to refer to this group. It is not overly PC to chose one over the other.
It's not an insult if it's true.
Problem is, many people can't or won't face the truth.
So one person complained and Ed decided not to use the word again, what about the hundreds, possibly thousands who have a more liberal outlook on life, do they not deserve unbiased, non PC reporting ?
Others do not.
I used it once and was admonished by someone who found the word offensive so I try not to use it anymore.
This really is not the sort of topic for insulting comments.
Ed
Your comment appears to be a case of fingers on keyboard before brain put in gear, if Gypsies/Gypsy's as an ethnic group have been given protection against discrimination under U.K. and European law the assumption must be that the words Gypsies/Gypsy's as an ethnic group appear somewhere in that legislation, do you not think it somewhat lacking in common sense to say that it's not acceptable to use the words,Gypsies/Gypsy's when those words are really the only way to define who is being given protection against discrimination.
How can any anti discrimination legislation be,
a) understandable and
b) operate as intended.
if the authorities or anyone else trying to use that legislation are unable to define the ethnicity of the people they are trying to protect just because certain inoffensive words being used in the proper context, may offend some people with a narrow minded outlook.
Obviously one of the P.C. brainwashed Disley was referring to !
For you perhaps...
The derogatory connotation of those words is more often than not only in the minds of the already P.C. brainwashed, the P.C brigade love to climb on a "victim" bandwagon and then take it upon themselves using innuendo and implication to try a determine what the rest of us should think or say about their "victims".
There are two types of Gypsies – Roma Gypsies and Irish Travellers.
Both have a nomadic lifestyle but are of very separate ethnic groups.
There is much debate about their history, however Romany Gypsies are said to have had their roots in India and travelled across to Europe in the 13th century, while Travellers are mainly of Irish origin.
The word Pikey actually means a non-Gypsy traveller.
Pikey is a word that true Roma Gypsies use for non-Roma travellers as in,
"They aren't real Romani (Gypsy) they are Pikies".
Certain types of Traveller, such as Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers, have successfully proven themselves to be a protected ethnic minority in the past, and as such, have the right to be free from racial harassment and discrimination.
This gives Gypsies and Travellers the same protection from discrimination that all other ethnic minorities receive under UK and European human rights law.