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In an entirely unscientific poll, 10 young Europeans were recently asked if they could identify any of the top three candidates in this week’s European Parliament elections. Only one of them could.<\/p>\n

The survey of students at the Marie-Haps Institute, a university in Brussels, was a light-hearted exercise, but it illustrated a serious point: no sector of society is more disconnected from European politics than first-time voters.<\/p>\n

Yet it is the young who are arguably most exposed to the consequences of EU decision-making: youth unemployment averages 23 percent across the EU and exceeds 50 percent in\u00a0Greece\u00a0and\u00a0Italy. Fallout from the debt crisis risks creating a generation of educated and frustrated young people without jobs.<\/p>\n

It is an issue at the forefront of the minds of the top candidates – one they have all raised in almost every speech, debate and town hall meeting of the campaign – and yet their message fails to resonate with most young voters.<\/p>\n

“A whole generation in the European Union pays with their life chances for a crisis other people, irresponsible people, have caused,” said Martin Schulz, the candidate for the centre-left Socialists & Democrats, during a debate at the University of Maastricht last month.<\/p>\n

The response from students and young people in Brussels would not leave him encouraged. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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