(26/06/2018) Dear Commissionaire, Dear Mr Navracsics, We are writing to you as a follow-up to the conference ‘Football unites, racism divides: No to Racism. No to Xenophobia. No to Antisemitism.’ that took place in the European Parliament (EP) on 23…
(28/06/2018) Oral question on Horizontal Equal Treatment Directive The European Commission presented a proposal for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment outside the labour market, irrespective of age, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief – the…
(21/06/2018) Written question on registering Roma in Italy Question for written answer to the Commission According to news reports (https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/18_giugno_18/milano-matteo-salvini-chiesto-dossier-rom-faremo-censimento-53c2c35a-72ec-11e8-803e-f9621adc969f.shtml), Mr Salvini, Italian minister of home affairs, has announced plans to create a register of Roma people living in Italy….
(20/06/2018) Politico Italy’s League: Roma census will ‘help’ community The Italian government’s plan to carry out a census of Roma in the country is intended to “help” not harm the Roma community, Italy’s Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Guglielmo Picchi said Wednesday….
(26/06/2018) Equal Times When will the EU put Black Europeans on the political agenda? As someone who is intimately familiar with racism, Swedish MP Momodou Malcolm Jallow didn’t hesitate to respond to the senior European Union official who casually informed…
(20/06/2018) Salvini’s comments on cataloguing Roma people a reminder of darkest days of European history S&D MEPs have strongly criticised comments from Italian Interior minister Matteo Salvini following his proposal for ethnic registration of Roma people in Italy. S&D Group…
(14/05/2018-17/05/2018) PAD Week detailed agenda: PAD Week agenda (Public) Articles and Op-eds: PAD Week media Agenda: Hearing: People of African Descent in Europe: Recognition and Rights Reception: People of African Descent Week (PAD) Launch Roundtable: Black Lives Europe Roundtable: Educating…
(23/05/2018) Introductory remarks Heinz K Becker Bogdan Wenta MEP Cecile Kyenge MEP Panel discussion on racism in football Fabio Appetiti Pavel Klymenko Daniel LÖrcher Julien Zylberstein Panel discussion on Antisemitism John Mann Simon Taylor Frank Willem Wagenaar Dave Rich
(14/05/2018) Judith Sargentini Serious breach by Hungary 36 On 13 June 2017, the Hungarian Parliament adopted the draft law with several amendments. In its Opinion of 20 June 2017, the Venice Commission recognised that some of those amendments represented an…
(14/05/2018) EurActiv EU owes a strategy for inclusion to black people in Europe Black people continue to experience some of the highest rates of discrimination in Europe, and the refugee crisis has made things even worse, writes Karen Taylor. Karen…
