"The Esperanto movement is against language discrimination; that is why we are speakers of Esperanto." affirmed Renato Corsetti, president of the world Esperanto organisation (UEA).
After several months' work with the European Union (EU), the Communications Centre of UEA, based in Brussells, succeeded in getting the EU to modify its policy on advertising job vacancies in the EU. The EU was in the habit of advertising that jobs were open only to native speakers of English. UEA argued that this was discriminatory. Eventually the EU official Jacob Soderman accepted UEA's argument. The official view of the EU now is that the requirement for candidates to be native English speakers for jobs which are officially open to all member countries, can be considered to be discriminatory.
It's careful wording of replies to UEA's arguments is evidence that the EU is trying to minimise the legal risks of admitting the discriminatory nature of the job advertisements for native speakers of English.
Corsetti says that justice in relations between people of different languages can be attained only by the use of a neutral language such as Esperanto. Seriously considering the use of a neutral language to avoid language discrimination is apparently still a taboo subject in the European Commission.
For further information refer to the review "Esperanto", January 2003.