European Union Anti-Racism Plan

[Spain]

Introducing the European Union Anti-Racism plan. Coordinated by the Internal Affairs Commissioner, this plan pretends to end with racism on our Union by applying new measures and initiatives to stop it. Member states are invited to co-operate in the plan, as racism is a concern for every European citizen that is not as other people from his country, the place where he is living, where he is travelling or he comes from another region where people look different because of their ethnic group.

In the days to come, the European Commission will anounce the measures it will be introducing in order to end with racism in the European Union. And I would like to endorse all the Presidents and Prime Ministers around the EU to send them a message: Racism is something we shall rise against. together. Let's now co-operate to end with it.

[Spain]

Today, the Internal Affairs Commission is introducing the new European Union Anti-Racism Action Plan, which will help Europe and its citizens to build a better society for the future generations. The commitment from myself to the Europeans make me feel conficent about the results we are getting by doing and starting to apply this measures, which won't be compulsory, but highly recommended to start implementating in the whole European Union:

EU Legal Framework

• Implementation report on the Racial Equality Directive in 2021 with any possible legislation by 2022.
• Enforcement of the Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia, incluiding infringement procedures via an act submitted to the European Council by the end of 2020.
• The upcoming Artificial Intelligence proposal to adr

Fair Policing and Protection

• Training and sharing of best practice to prevent discriminatory attitudes, incluiding racial and ethnic profiling, in law enforcement.
• Gathering of data on police attitudes towards minorities.

Education and Remembrance

• Awareness raising seminars on racial and ethnic stereotypes for journalist and civil societies.
• Mainstreaming inclusion and awareness in education policies
• Marking key commemorative days linked to racism.

Economy, Employment, Housing, Healthcare

• EU funding (previous approval of the EU Council) in areas such as the labour market, social protection, healthcare and housing to promote diversity and inclusion.

Extremism and Hate Speech

• Working with Member States to identify gasps and best pratices in tackling violent extremism by 2021.
• Working with IT companies to counter online hate speech and promote acceptance of diversity.

Better Data Collection

• Consistent approach for EU and Member States on equality data collection for more and better data disaggregated by racial or ethnic origin.

Diversity in the European Commission

• Dedicated survey to access diversity of Commission staff.
• Creation of a Diversity and Inclusion Branch in the Internal Affairs Commissioner, lead by the Internal Affairs Commissioner.
• Increased diversity of Commission staff to improve representativeness.
• A strategy for the Commission’s traineeships programme with specific diversity objective.

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Jean-Claude Juncker
Internal Affairs Commissioner