American Bar Association - Fall Meeting London
Discrimination in Europe
This panel will examine the legal obstacles to one of the biggest challenges facing the EU; how (and whether) to measure the integration of ethnic and racial minorities into the fabric of EU society to better enforce compliance and measure progress. EU member states are facing a crisis of integration policy, following decolonization and recent demographic shifts. By Directive, the EU has required each member state to create the equivalent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), but far from all EU member states are currently in compliance. The program will focus on current EU integration law and policy, and the powers of new EU member state anti-discrimination agencies. The panelists will discuss the lessons that EU member states can learn from 40 years of experience in the United States, in particular in the area of benchmarking compliance through the use of statistics. Can the US experience of workplace integration be a model for EU efforts, or will the different legal and cultural approaches to privacy and integration in Europe require new and different policy orientations, institutions, rules and practices?
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04.10.2007
02:15 - 03:45 pm
The Grosvenor House Hotel, London