The European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has produced a report on levels of discrimination faced by black people in the EU.
The report's overall conclusions are saddening - levels of discrimination have not declined since the last such report for 2016.
There was, however, optimism for Poland - found to have low levels of discrimination against people of African descent. In the report's section, "How common is discrimination?", we find the following summary:
- Overall, 47% say they experienced discrimination on any ground in the five years before the survey and over a third (36%) one year before the survey.
- The highest levels of discrimination on any ground are in Austria (12 months: 67% and 5 years: 76%), Germany (12 months: 65% and 5 years: 77%) and Finland (12 months: 57 and 5 years: 66%).
- The lowest are in Poland (12 months: 19% and 5 years: 21%), and Portugal (12 months: 17% and 5 years: 27%).
So Poland has less than "half" the level of discrimination of the entire sample of EU countries. The survey sample was almost 6 800 people of sub-Saharan African descent from 13 EU countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.
Sources: fra.europa.eu, Notes from Poland, X
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