Here’s a quick history of the Roma, via Wikipedia (so not overly reliable, though this one seems relatively decent). No one exactly knows their origin – “Gypsy” stems from the belief that they were originally Egyptian, for example – most now reckoning instead that they originated from India or Persia. “Roma” comes not from Romania, but from their own name for their native language, “Rom”.

As for those Roma in Italy? It’s estimated that there are 160,000 Roma in Italy – of which c.70,000 are Italian citizens, and c.60,000 Romanian citizens. That’s hardly a majority of Romanians (just 37.5%, in fact), and yet Frattini’s actions have unilaterally declared ALL of them to be Romanian. That’s rather like me deciding, based on little more than a hunch, that because your name’s Robin you must be from Robbins Island, and so deporting you to Tasmania.

Empiricism, for future reference, is about knowledge based on facts.

(I would try to address your last sentence, but I have no idea what it means.)

The rest of your points, certainly the cycle of ostracism thing (bar the “many if not most” bit, for which I’d like to see your sources – and which in any case could be disputed by similar methods as have been used to demonstrate that the higher proportional conviction rate for African Americans in the US can be seen as down to a combination of institutional racism and the aforementioned cycle) may have some validity. But the real problem here is that the Roma – like the Jews before them – are not of any one particular state, so lack the protection of any one state.

Being, as they are, also massively under-represented at EU level, and in any case a largely disparate community of communities with few ties binding them all together, they have no organised group/party large enough to stand up for them when incidents such as these take place. Which is, of course, part of the reason why Frattini was able to get away with labelling the Italian Roma as Romanian in the first place…

The fact that they were originally described as Romanians gives the clue that they have recently arrived.
Unfortunately back in the Eastern countries,especially Ro and BG, they are considered second class citizens. Also unfortunately many if not most live up to that, and they are not fully integrated.It becomes a circle of them not being liked, they then dislike or treat with contempt the “host” community, which makes more of “them” not like “them”, which makes them stick to their own, which makes them feared more, which makes them…etc
Getting as hysterical as the backlash (as some here are)is not going to help them either.
Perhaps a homeland for them. But where in the world ? And not all of them, or even the majority, would want to leave the countries they are in.And who would want to pay for it ?Diffuse them throughout Europe ? May lessen the fear of “them” but now you`re talking forced migration, resettlement (and trains ?) Maybe the Italians are on top of this .