INSTITUTIONAL / Fundamental rights

Without legislative proposals, Commission’s anti-racism commitments will be “only words”, warns Alice Kunhke

Brussels, 15/09/2020 (Agence Europe)

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is due to present an Action Plan to combat racism in the EU in her first State of the Union address on Wednesday 16 September. Ms Von der Leyen took up the issue in June, when protests swept across the United States and many European countries in response to the death of African-American George Floyd.

As the institution prepares to lift the veil on the “concrete actions” promised in June (see EUROPE B12513A12), EUROPE...