There’s a lesson for the EU from Britain’s riots: do more to prevent hatred and division – or violence follows | Shada Islam

After spending years trying to convince EU officials to turn their lofty talk of building a “union of equality” into reality, I am convinced that Europe’s national leaders and senior policymakers in Brussels, including Ursula von der Leyen, the newly reappointed European Commission president, are not doing enough to push back against entrenched EU-wide racism, including Islamophobia. All too often, by accommodating Eurocentric and xenophobic far-right views, they are in fact mainstreaming and amplifying them.