Tag: Racism

The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi cell went on trial on Monday (6 May) for a series of racist killings that scandalised Germany and exposed the security services' inability or reluctance to recognise far-right crime.

European politicians as a moral mass must adopt stricter legislation proscribing groups that promote hate, discrimination and racism from European political institutions, writes Moshe Kantor.

Blaming Roma for everything from petty crime to trash on the streets, thousands of supporters of Hungary's far-right opposition Jobbik party rallied in the eastern city of Miskolc yesterday (17 October).

A Ukrainian diplomat yesterday (5 June) slammed a BBC documentary depicting the presence of racism and hatred at stadiums in his country. The documentary was released just days before Friday's start of the Euro 2012 football cup, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland.

International Roma Day coincided with racist clashes in Belgrade over the relocation of Roma from a shanty town in central Belgrade to state-sponsored container camp in a suburb.

Former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema calls on Nicolas Sakozy and Silvio Berlusconi to stop stoking the flames of anti-immigrant sentiment and urges Europe to restore solidarity with emigrant countries facing difficult economic and political circumstances.

The EU risks being besieged by a racist mentality "that emulates the fascist methods of the 1930s," said Turkish EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış, speaking at a Holocaust commemoration event in Auschwitz.

The Party of European Socialists (PES) called last week (15 October) on all political parties to agree to a proposed code of conduct, which prohibits electoral alliances with any party from inciting ethnic prejudices and racial hatred.

European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht apologised on 3 September for comments he made about Jews in a recent interview. The European Commission distanced itself from the offensive statements, but that did not stop commentators and Jewish organisations from talking of a "new wave" of anti-Semitism and racism across Europe.

Applauding France for expelling dozens of Roma, Italy said it wanted to expel citizens of other EU states who live solely off state benefits. Its interior minister said he will ask the European Commission to endorse such a plan.

Ethnic and religious minorities in Europe continue to suffer from discrimination and prejudice and face disadvantages in a whole host of areas, from employment and education to housing and policing, a report published yesterday (3 December) by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) reveals.

Extremism and racism are on the rise throughout Europe and racist political discourse is increasingly common in mainstream European politics, finds a report published on 1 December by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).

Lívia Járóka, a Hungarian MEP from the centre-right EPP-ED group, spoke to EurActiv Hungary in an interview about Italy's Roma fingerprinting measures. [Note: Following a mistranslation from the original version in Hungarian, EurActiv.com has modified parts of this interview. The following text has been corrected and is the exact verbatim version, translated into English.]

European leaders should be more energetic in warning the Italian Government about hate rhetoric against immigrants, says Romanian Socialist MEP Adrian Severin in an interview with EurActiv.

The European Commission has warned the Italian government not to take "extreme measures" against EU citizens, just 12 days after Silvio Berlusconi was sworn in as prime minister.

The EU, together with the football governing body UEFA, has decided to step up preventive action following recent violent and racist incidents in and around sporting events, which are often found to be the work of organised groups.

Unequal treatment continues in employment, housing and education, according to 2006 data collected by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), while racist crime increased in a number of EU countries.

The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), focusing primarily on the areas of racism and discrimination and formally opened on 1 March 2007 in Vienna, has been criticised as being "a superfluous institution with a limited mandate".

A new Eurobarometer report shows that anti-discrimination legislation is still not sufficiently implemented in the EU. The Commission wants to change that with a European year dedicated to equal opportunities

The PES has suspended the membership of the Slovak socialist party (Smer) due to its association with ‘ extreme nationalists’.

Ann de Mol, a program advisor at the King Baudouin Foundation(KBF), is currently co-ordinating the Europe-wide  Stand up Speak up campaign against racism in football. Also co-ordinator of the Belgian national Stand up Speak up campaign, she explains the origins and aims of this Europe-wide initiative.

Contrasting with the conciliatory line adopted by EU foreign ministers, author Salman Rushdie and a group of fellow intellectuals have warned against totalitarianism from Islamist circles in a manifesto.

The European Monitoring Centre for Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) has published a report on the impact of the London bombings on the Muslim community in the EU.

Data on racist violence is non-existent in many member states, allowing attacks against minorities to increase unnoticed, says report.