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(16\/04\/2018)<\/p>\n

Politico<\/strong><\/p>\n

C\u00e9cile Kyenge\u2019s call for greater diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for me to say to people working in Parliament that I feel honored to work here, representing the hidden face of Europe,\u201d said C\u00e9cile Kyenge, an Italian who is one of the very few black members of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

Kyenge described her time as a minister in Italy as difficult, \u201cdealing with racism not only from people but also other politicians,\u201d including the vice president of the Italian Senate, Roberto Calderoli of the far-right League. His extraordinarily offensive comments about Kyenge and her family in 2015 resulted in a defamation case. Another member of the League, Mario Borghezio, was last year ordered to pay Kyenge \u20ac50,000 in damages.<\/p>\n

Back in 2013, she said \u201cI have never said Italy is racist, every country needs to start building awareness of immigration and Italy has simply arrived very late.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Kyenge says her experience with discrimination is different in Brussels than in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere I can have some episodes,\u201d Kyenge said about her experiences of discrimination in the Parliament, but it does not \u201cmanifest\u201d in the same way it did in Italy.<\/p>\n

Kyenge is co-president of the Parliament\u2019s\u00a0Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s very important to promote integration\u201d while also raising awareness about \u201cAfrophobia,\u201d she said. To that end Kyenge\u2019s group is organizing a week of events to explain and address Afrophobia.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people [of color] come [to the Parliament] from the U.K., but not other countries,\u201d she said. (In fact, there are black MEPs from just three of the EU\u2019s 28 countries).<\/p>\n

Kyenge wants a more systemic response to the lack of diversity in the EU institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t give a definition, don\u2019t recognize data and [that] there is a problem, then it is difficult to have a response,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In the Parliament in 2017, 37 percent of MEPs were women, and there were far fewer MEPs of color. Kyenge wants the Parliament to use affirmative action to close that gap.<\/p>\n

\u201cAffirmative action can give opportunities to people like me, a woman, a black woman,\u201d said Kyenge.<\/p>\n

She said that affirmative action would give others an opportunity to do what she is doing now \u2014 \u201crepresenting Italy\u201d \u2014 and \u201creally doing policy for promoting diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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