Romea.cz
6.1.2021 12:46
Ivan Bartoš (PHOTO: Petr Zewlakk Vrabec) Romani people who enter politics should be involved in the agenda of solving the problems of the entire society. We have to learn to begin doing things together, says the chair of the Czech Pirate Party, Ivan Bartoš, in an interview for
PhDr. Ivan Bartoš (born 1980) is from Jablonec nad Nisou, lives in Prague, and graduated in Information and Library Studies from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague before briefly working in the Computer Science Department at the University of New Orleans in the USA. He is the founder and chair of the Czech Pirate Party, currently the second-strongest party in the Chamber of Deputies.
With the post-Brexit transition period due to end in less than two weeks’ time, what does the situation look like for the thousands of Czechs living and working in Britain, particularly the large Czech Roma community? Do most of them plan to stay in the UK? And will they manage to apply for settled status in time?
Photo: Jiří Hošek, Czech Radio
According to the estimates of the Czech Foreign Ministry, there are over 100,000 Czechs living in the United Kingdom and those who plan to stay have just over six months to register for “settled status” in order to be allowed to remain resident in the country post-Brexit.