Tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets in France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Albania. In doing so, they have joined what has been dubbed the Generation Z revolution (those born between 1997 and 2012), which over the past two years helped bring down the government of Bangladesh, force the resignation of Nepal’s prime minister and dissolve Madagascar’s government. Now, in Europe, on the eve of an electoral supercycle that will determine the governments of four of the European Union’s five most populous countries (France, Italy, Spain and Poland), young people are sharing a frustration that opportunities for their generation are becoming scarcer and their future increasingly insecure.

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Decenas de miles de jóvenes han tomado las calles en Francia, Bélgica, España, Portugal, Italia y Albania. Se suman así a la llamada revolución de la generación Z (nacidos entre 1997 y 2012), que impulsó en los dos últimos años la caída del Gobierno de Bangladés, la dimisión del primer ministro de Nepal y la disolución del Gobierno de Madagascar. Ahora, en Europa, a las puertas de un superciclo electoral, en el que se decidirán los gobiernos de cuatro de los cinco países más poblados de la UE (Francia, Italia, España y Polonia), los jóvenes comparten un descontento generacional marcado por la sensación de que su futuro se vuelve cada vez más estrecho y precario.

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The alarms raised by the relationship between a Spanish NATO commander and a woman of Russian origin he met on Tinder, the dating app, are the latest chapter in a new espionage battleground: web applications. Sharing content on social media, posting your morning run, or looking for love online has become a latent risk for militaries around the world.

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