Sometimes the request to see it would come just moments after she had swiped it to enter a building, other times she would be stopped hours later as she made her way to meetings. Six months into the job, she mentioned the stringent security measures over coffee with a few colleagues. They said Are you serious? I've never been stopped.' Kuhnke, a Black MEP from Sweden, put the same question to her Black colleagues. The answer confirmed what she had suspected: Some of them had been stopped.
While racialised minorities make up an estimated 10% of the EU's population, MEPs from these groups accounted for just 4.3% of the total lawmakers in the last mandate, according to analysis by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). The lack of diversity was exacerbated by Brexit, which resulted in nine MEPs of colour, including Magid, leaving in 2020.
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