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📣 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.

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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. 🗣️📚

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.

"From silence to accountability": www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaL8...

Building a civil society anti-racism strategy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iji-...