Don't know who does these reports but I don't think they've been to Western Europe.4) In Europe only Denmark has been reported as OK,Germany is supposed to be OK but I woud not go there if I were black. Too many skinheads.
You've got no problem with the UK James - mixed race dating is very common here and most adverts feature a black guy and white girl like this one for beds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K31r2_1GnUk
They'd probably be even more interested by your accent too. Not my type of music but there is a very big R&B folowing here and many clubs specialising in it.
Over here we tend to judge people on how good they are not the colour. That's why we think George Bush is an idiot but we like Barrack Obama - there has never been such an interest in the American elections before as there was this time. We hate our own prime minister Gordon Brown. He's not mental like Bush but he has *ucked this country.
It's another reason why we don't have terms like African - English, Asian - English etc. You're either English (Scottish etc) or not.