AUSTRIA ECJ
April 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLDELAYS in complying with the European Union's (EU) year 2000 directive outlawing racial discrimination across Europe, including at the workplace, have earned the Austrian government a censure by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). It said Austria had "failed to follow its legal obligations" under EU law by not implementing directive 2000/43/EC on 'equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin' by July 2003. Vienna's conservative government said it had later amended its national equality laws to ban racial discrimination. ...
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