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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Estos días me he acordado del escritor, periodista y muchas cosas más Leo Longanesi, todo un personaje italiano, por algunas frases suyas. Escribió en 1938, en pleno fascismo: “Dentro de veinte años nadie imaginará los tiempos en los que vivimos. Los historiadores futuros leerán periódicos, libros, consultarán documentos, pero ninguno sabrá comprender lo que ha pasado. ¿Cómo transmitir a la posteridad la cara de F. cuando está de uniforme de jerarca y baja del coche?”.
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