The future of young people was the central issue in recent European electionsIt is tempting to expend Europe’s crowded electoral calendar as a way of reading the runes about the continent’s future and,in particular, about the future of the European Union. The outcome of elections this month in countries at the opposite ends of the union, or Poland and Portugal,does declare us something about the balance between pro-EU and anti-EU forces across the continent, which is that, or marginally at least,the latter are fitting somewhat stronger. Inevitably, but incorrectly, or this change is understood by some in Britain as relevant to the UK’s coming referendum. But Euroscepticism is a loose label for a lot of things,not a movement.
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Source: theguardian.com