Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001643/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Fabrice Leggeri (PfE), André Rougé (PfE), Julien Leonardelli (PfE), Pierre Pimpie (PfE), Tom Vandendriessche (PfE), Marieke Ehlers (PfE), Petra Steger (PfE), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE), Kinga Gál (PfE), András László (PfE), Mathilde Androuët (PfE), Marie Dauchy (PfE), Matthieu Valet (PfE), Gilles Pennelle (PfE), Mélanie Disdier (PfE)
On 15 April 2025, the Commission launched a call for evidence[1] to contribute to the development of the ‘2026-2030 EU anti-racism strategy’.
The strategy was announced by the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen and follows on from the ‘EU Anti-racism Action Plan 2020-2025’[2], which aimed to combat ‘structural racism’. Despite this plan, the Commission believes that ‘more effective protection from racial discrimination and the systematic prevention of racism against all racialised groups[3] is needed’.
The Commission, entirely driven by woke ideology, plans to rely on controversial reports by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights entitled ‘Being Black in the EU[4]’ and ‘Being Muslim in the EU[5]’.
Having initially called for a fight against racism ‘in all its forms’, which would be reasonable, Brussels finally hurried to clarify exactly which forms: ‘anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Muslim racism…’, then states that it will ‘adopt an intersectional approach’.
Meanwhile, there is no mention of anti-white racism or Christianophobia.
- 1.Why is the Commission ignoring anti-white racism and Christianophobia in this context?
- 2.Do the ‘stakeholders’ and key international partners who were consulted receive EU funding?
- 3.What is the cost of this strategy?
Supporter[6]
Submitted: 23.4.2025
- [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14552-Anti-racism-Strategy_en.
- [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52020DC0565.
- [3] https://rm.coe.int/ecri-opinion-on-the-concept-of-racialisation/1680a4dcc2.
- [4] https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2023-being-black_in_the_eu_en.pdf.
- [5] https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2024-being-muslim-in-the-eu_en.pdf
- [6] This question is supported by a Member other than the authors: Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain (PfE)