Spiske Vlachy

Slovak Roma await the euro in poverty - and fear

Slovak Roma await the euro in poverty - and fearSpiske Vlachy, Slovakia  - Shouting each other down, women hurl questions at a rare visitor to their hometown, a destitute Roma ghetto amid picturesque hills of central Slovakia.

"My father gets 3,500 koruny. How much is it in euro?" blurted Magdalena Horvathova, a chubby-cheeked 17-year-old with a baby in her arms.

"Will there be twenty and fifty notes?" asked a raspy-voiced grandmother with two braids emerging from underneath a yellow scarf.