Eurocrats Who Look Like Europe

There is a double standard at the heart of the European Union’s powerful executive body, the European Commission. Women — mostly white women — benefit from affirmative action when applying for jobs. But people of colour seeking advancement do not benefit from special consideration. Commentator (shadaislam.com/about) and columnist Shada Islam (twitter.com/shada_islam) says the Commission’s progress on gender makes its foot-dragging on racial diversity less excusable than ever. Sarah Chander (twitter.com/sarahchander), a digital rights advocate (edri.org/our-work/welcoming-our-new-senior-pol…) and a co-founder of the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice (twitter.com/Equinoxrji), discusses the moral panic over critical race theory that's spread to Europe.

This episode was made in partnership with The Brussels Binder (twitter.com/bxlbinder) under the BBBeyond (brusselsbinder.org/bbbeyond) project.

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