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A BIG majority of Africans and Roma living in the EU report discrimination, according to a survey published yesterday by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), with more than 90 per cent having experienced discrimination in certain of the EU’s 27 member states.

Ireland occupies a middle place in the discrimination stakes, 14th out of the total of 27 countries surveyed. The survey was conducted for Ireland in the Dublin metropolitan area among sub-Saharan Africans and central and east Europeans, and 73 per cent of the Africans said they had experienced discrimination here. A high percentage also said there were places they would not venture for fear of discrimination or racially-based attack.