Europe's Youth: Expectations and Dissapointments with the EU
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Date: 2013-11-19

At the conference "Europe's Future - Europe's Young Generation" (October 19th, 2013) at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin 60 young Europeans had been invited by the foundation and their partner organisations European Alternatives, the Federation of Young European Greens (FEYEG), and the Young European Federalists (JEF) to talk about the situation in their home countries.  
Danijela Bozovic (Belgrade Open School) and Aleksandra Maldziski (Center E8) were two of them: The two activists see themselves as ambassadors for Serbia and as EU-optimists, who hope, that their country will be part of the European Union and not longer excluded from European politics in the nearer future. 

Eduardo Ocaña (Juventud Sin Futuro) was another young activist that presented the organization "Youth Without Future", an initiative that is trying to stimulate political debate among the younger generation using social networks. Ocaña is very dissapointed about the EU policy and makes clear, how horrendously the austerity policies affect the Spanish youth -- which in his words is "a youth without future". 

The Greek activists Kyriaki Metaxa (architect & activist), Styliani Kampani (journalist & activist) and Evangolos Astyrakakis (Young Greens Greece) explain why they engage politically. "Everything is politics", says Kyriaki Metaxa "we need to find solutions together".

More on the conference on: 
www.boell.de/Europas-junge-Generation

Interview: Jelena Nikolic