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Talking about race is always an awkward conversation in Brussels. Responses from officialdom are a mix of ignorance, complacency, defensiveness and denial. Seems to stem from myth that being pro-EU means you're immune to prejudice. A chat with @jameskanter https://euscream.com/race-and-the-von-der-leyen-commission/
The EU and its policies are not "blind to race". Obvious examples include the existence of militarised external frontiers as the price for keeping alive the border-free Schengen zone. And even within Schengen, racial profiling is everywhere https://www.ft.com/content/fac891a6-93f9-11e8-b67b-b8205561c3fe
Another fallacy is that member states are guilty of structural prejudice, not the EU. But according to the ECJ a Muslim woman who wears hijab is a "non-neutral" EU citizen - a legal definition where "neutrality" means being white, secular or Christian https://euscream.com/being-muslim/
