Our take? The EU must do better, and ENAR is ready to support its efforts, as we did with our policy brief 👉🏾 www.enar-eu.org/policy-brief...
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Our take? The EU must do better, and ENAR is ready to support its efforts, as we did with our policy brief 👉🏾 www.enar-eu.org/policy-brief...
The 🇪🇺 new anti-racism strategy? A missed opportunity to confront the structural violence lived by racialised communities. A flawed strategy that fails to protect is not a strategy at all. Our Policy Manager Julie Pascoet explains why in @euobserver.com 👉🏽
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
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🚨The EU’s new “Return Regulation” is really a Deportation Regulation.
It expands detention, weakens safeguards & creates profit for private contractors – at the expense of people’s dignity & communities.
Over 200 organisations say: Reject it.
@ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu @eu2025dk.bsky.social
At #SOTEU2025 we heard borders, defence & profit. On human rights & anti-racism? Silence. 🤐
These priorities fuel more violence & marginalisation of racialised communities. The new #EUAntiRacismStrategy 2026-2030 must deliver impact with accountability and cooperation with grassroots movements.✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾
🚨 We’re hiring!
ENAR is looking for an Events and Administration Associate to join our Brussels team.
📅 Apply by 14 September 2025
👉 JobApplication@enar-eu.org
More details here www.enar-eu.org/call-for-app...
📣 The need for public condemnation of racist attacks and a clear political stance from EU leaders.
We will continue standing with racialised communities and demanding lasting change across the EU.
✊🏾 We’re not just reacting — we’re shaping the future of anti-racist policy.
But we also voiced serious concerns:
⚠️ Our movement is under attack – racial justice defenders face criminalisation, shrinking civic space, and surveillance.
🚨 Increasing racialised violence at EU borders and discriminatory migration policies, which must be named and dismantled.
🔹 Calls for more transparency and civil society inclusion in the Equality Task Force and stronger powers for the Anti-Racism Unit.
🔹 The urgency of defending the Horizontal Directive and setting a clear path for a legislative framework on intersectional discrimination.
🔹 The importance of embedding anti-racism in crisis preparedness, especially in sectors like food security and climate.
🔹 Rising concerns around racialised policing, repression of solidarity (e.g. for Palestine), and the criminalisation of migrants.
In our exchange, we highlighted:
🔹 The need to tackle structural racism across all policy areas — not just individual acts of discrimination.
🔹 How intersectionality must be central: racism is interconnected with gender, migration status, class, and more.
🟣 On Monday ENAR's co-coordinator Julie Pascoet, Vice-chair Dr Toyin Agbetu and Policy and Advocacy Advisor Dr Emmanuel Achiri met with Commissioner Hadja Lahbib to push forward a stronger, intersectional EU Anti-Racism Strategy.
May 1st came and went — but for racialised & migrant women holding up Europe’s care systems, what really changed?
Care work remains invisibilised & exploited. It’s time to treat care as political — and fight for an anti-racist, feminist politics of care.
Blog post👇
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We call on MEPs to vote against the planned expansion of surveillance powers for #Europol
Tuesday because it:
❌ fails to protect migrants or reduce border deaths.
❌ is a power grab by Europol.
❌ criminalises migrants & solidarity organisers.
#ProtectNotSurveil:
protectnotsurveil.eu
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European Parliament LIBE votes on the #Europol reform report next week Tuesday, 20 May.
MEPs 👏must 👏vote 👏against the expansion of Europol’s surveillance powers!
Read & share the detailed #ProtectNotSurveil position paper now:
➡️ protectnotsurveil.eu
Especially in times where the rule of law is under threat, freedom of assembly is restricted, and civic space is shrinking. 🚨⚖️
Check out their powerful responses below — and be part of the conversation! 💥✊
#AntiRacism #ENAR #CivicSpace #TogetherForJustice #EUARAP
🛠️ Together, we explored:
🔹 The upcoming EU Anti-Racism Strategy
🔹 Monitoring & implementation of NAPARs
🔹 Fundraising challenges and opportunities for NGOs working on racial justice.
But we didn’t stop there... 💬 We asked our members:
"What does anti-racism mean to you?"
This vibrant gathering provided a much-needed space for reflection, dialogue, and peer-to-peer learning on key issues such as anti-racism, discrimination, and the evolving civic landscape across Europe. 🗣️📚
🌍 ENAR at the Regional Meeting in Berlin 🌍
Last week, we brought together our incredible members from 11 European countries for our annual Regional Meeting in Berlin! 🤝✨
This is a call to confront the structures that enable such violence — in France, across Europe, and beyond.
🛑 Condemnation is not enough. We must dismantle white supremacy, wherever it takes root.
🔗 Read the full piece here: lnkd.in/dEU4zC35
His assassination was not outside the state. It happened within the ideological architecture of state policy, media discourse, and institutional complicity.
But this was not just a personal tragedy. It was political.
In our latest Op-Ed in the EUobserver, ENAR's Policy and Advocacy Advisor Emmanuel Achiri, PhD lays bare the deep-rooted systems of racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Blackness that made Cissé’s murder not only possible — but predictable.
On 25 April, Aboubakar Cissé was executed inside a mosque in southern France.
The response? Silence. Denial. And when public pressure forced a minute of silence in Parliament, his death was still framed as an isolated act of hate — a lone extremist.
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Building a civil society anti-racism strategy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iji-...
The throwback to Anti-racism and Diversity Week 2025 still continues!
The recording of the panel discussions on "Building a civil society anti-racism strategy" and "From silence to accountability" are not available on youtube.
Links can be found below!
⬅️ Structural and institutional racism has never been so blatant - or so widely accepted. Fascist trends are gaining ground, and it's high time EU policy instruments deliver real, impactful action for everyone.
#RuleOfLaw #UnionOfEquality #AntiRacism #FundamentalRights
⭕ We are witnessing an increasing legitimisation of discriminatory laws - and it will impact us all. ⭕
✅ We strongly support the call to center equality and fundamental rights in this report, especially as political forces in power continue to deny equal rights to the most marginalised, including racialised migrants and the CSOs representing them. ✅
