Racism?!?

I seem to be getting back to what the EU is going on about, and this time they are upset about Finnish candy-paper and accuse it of being racistic.

What we are talking about here is a picture on the wrapping-paper of a liquorice-bar, with a drawn picture of a little negro-boy, a black or a coloured boy, and it's been there for 80 years!
Several immigrant of coloured skin were asked about it and they did not find it to be insulting or in any kind racist, but the EU did. Are there no issues of greater importance to discuss in Brussels?!?

Would it have been better with a picture of Adolf Hitler, or maybe the now deceased Saddam Hussein?!? Or former president Gorbatchov of the former Sowiet Republic who has a Vodka named after him?
Help, we are talking about candy-paper here!!!