The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, explained on Tuesday 2 June that the EU is “shocked” and “appalled” by the death of George Floyd, a black American suffocated by a white policeman who knelt on his neck for several minutes on 25 May in Minneapolis.
Since then, demonstrations have been growing throughout the country, as well as in Europe, to denounce both his death and racism.
Borrell told the media that the police officer’s...