ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide an understanding of the main discourses on antidiscrimination policy at the EU level. It argues that civil society organisations played a major role in promoting the adoption of anti-racist measures and proved very effective in articulating EU discourse on the matter. The chapter shows how discourse on anti-discrimination evolved over time and how processes of consultation enhanced dialogue between institutional and social actors at the EU level. Public consultations launched by the DGs of the European Commission constitute an important channel for dialogue between social and institutional actors and provide the locus for the articulation of policy options and beliefs, thus proving a potentially useful tool to overcome the remoteness of the European public sphere (EPS).
