“Travelers” does generally refer to the Romani and Sinti people who live a nomadic lifestyle.
The French version of the article uses the phrase “les gens du voyage”, which according to the French Wikipedia page is often used to refer to the “Roma of France (including the Sinti and the Gitanos)”.
So I think it’s fairly safe to assume that that is what they mean with “travelers” in this article.
I suggest you take a look at the Signal messages that got leaked in the Atlantic, they speak volumes.
Those chat logs do not suggest that what America is doing is based on rational policy
There was still the lingering hope that behind the scenes they would have an actual plan… That the way the American government under Trump is behaving isn’t just out of blind hatred for Europe.
That last bundle of straws to grasp are now gone too, and Europe must accept that America is simply no longer our friend and ally.
Edit: Typos and autocorrect
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The article does say that it was the local council that wanted to prevent them from moving there.
I’m not saying there definitely is a discriminatory motive… I do not know how the people of Switzerland look at the Romani people.
But given the way Roma are treated in much of Europe, and Switzerland’s reputation for being somewhat conservative, I am not discounting the possibility that they are being discriminated against here.
The equivalent in the US would be if a couple of families of black people wanted to move to a predominantly white town in the south, and the county would step in claiming there are no more homes available.