Les conflits politiques en Allemagne autour de la transposition de la directive europeenne contre le racisme

In: Critique internationale: revue comparative de sciences sociales, Heft 4, S. 27-38

Abstract

Germany is one of those rare countries that has taken more than five years to transpose into their national law the measures against ethnic discrimination requested by the European Union directive against racism. Why precisely did the red & green federal government have such difficulties in transposing this directive? It appears that the repeated attempts by government parties have come up against opposition by Christian democrats & representatives of the business sphere. The modalities of the transposition process I study in this paper confirm the conclusions of a previous research program identifying, within EU-15 countries, three worlds or groups of countries each having its own type of transposition: the "legalist world" the "world of negligence," & the "world of the national policy," to which, precisely, Germany belongs to. Adapted from the source document.