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The European Commission's Anti-racism Action Plan, published last week, is right to call for more training of police officers - but its underlying conception of the problems of policing in Europe is too narrow (Photo: EUobserver)

Why no EU progress on Black Lives Matter?

In June, in response to the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the European Parliament passed a resolution denouncing police brutality in the US, acknowledging the mass protests in response, and calling for European action against structural racism.

Yet, months later, for many EU decisionmakers the problems of racism in policing and criminal legal systems - th...

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The European Commission's Anti-racism Action Plan, published last week, is right to call for more training of police officers - but its underlying conception of the problems of policing in Europe is too narrow (Photo: EUobserver)

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Mitali Nagrecha is head of networks at Brussels-based NGO Fair Trials.

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