Media: Racism more common in Germany than in other EU countries

Black people in Germany face discrimination more often than others, with every second person from Africa complaining of infringement of rights, according to the results of a study by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights conducted in 13 EU countries, reported from foreign media.

Almost half of people of African descent living in the EU have experienced discrimination and racism in their daily lives, with Germany and Austria reporting the highest number of complaints.

In Germany, 76% of respondents confirmed that they had experienced similar behavior in the past five years because of their skin color, origin or religion. This figure is higher than in any other country in the survey. In Austria, this indicator was 72 percent, compared with the European average of 45 percent.

Moreover, the agency indicates that the situation is getting worse; in 2016 in Germany, 52 percent of black people surveyed complained about problems of discrimination, compared with the European average of 39 percent.

Black people had negative labor market experiences in Germany and Austria more often than in any other of 13 countries studied, the report notes. Thus, in Germany, 46% of survey participants reported that they had encountered similar facts at work last year (the EU average is 31 percent). Some 56% of respondents spoke about negative experiences when looking for work in Germany over the past five years; the figure was higher in Austria - 59 percent.

Police are also more likely to stop and check IDs because of skin color, according to 69% of those surveyed in Germany.

The data from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights comes from a large online survey of immigrants and their children. The study involved 6,700 respondents of African descent living in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. At the same time, sociologists interviewed 579 people in Germany and 454 in Austria.





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