A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Racism Kills" during a Black Lives Matter protest in Berlin, Germany, July 2, 2021. / Photo: Reuters
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights , which commissioned the survey and analysed its findings in a report, said on Wednesday that in the space of six years since the previous study, the proportion of respondents who had felt racially discriminated against in the past 12 months had risen by 10 percentage points to 34 percent.
"It is shocking to see no improvement since our last survey," FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty said."Instead, people of African descent face ever more discrimination just because of the colour of their skin." This report, entitled"Being Black in the EU," is the first produced from that wider survey. It focuses on 6,752 people born in sub-Saharan Africa or with at least one parent born there living in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.