Bulgaria attempts an assimilation campaign by issuing a decree that prohibits Roma from travelling. Local councils are enjoined to channel them into factories and operative farms. This campaign will last for thirty years.1959. Zohri Muller founds the organisation Pro Tzigania Svizzera in Switzerland.The World Gypsy Community CMG is founded in Paris by Ionel Rotaru. The CMG includes Rom, Manush, and Kalé from France, with contacts in Poland, Canada, Turkey, and other countries.1960. The Caravan Sites Control of Development Act in England stops new private sites being built until 1972. Eviction and harassment of Gypsies starts to reach a crisis.1962. The National Association of Gypsies in France is founded.

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