A blank year for young Europeans, under Covid
Audio 19:30
REUTERS / Marko Djurica
By: Frédérique Lebel
22 min
A year already, a year since the Covid virus made a sensational entry into the world with a first death in China.
Our lives turned upside down, and our future in suspense, especially for young people.
They are the ones we are going to hear today in Accents d'Europe.
More fragile, more worried Europeans.
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Young Italians, far from employment
In Italy, which was the center of the first wave of the epidemic, young people were already badly battered by the economy.
30% unemployment, one of the highest rates in the EU.
The crisis of recent months has not helped.
And the part reserved for young people in the famous recovery plan initiated by Brussels, has not calmed the anxieties of the main stakeholders.
Report in Italy by
Olivier Bonnel.
Young and old confined to Turkey
And in order not to penalize the economy, the Turkish president wanted to spare the working population, by confining only the elderly and… the youngest.
Those under 20 have therefore been confined to their homes for many months, with a short summer break.
A policy whose effects on the mind are already worrying.
In Istanbul, Anne Andlauer.
French student blues
“Student life”, an expression that takes us back to the world before ... And which is today emptied of almost all of its content.
No more parties, no more odd jobs, no more meetings outside or on the benches of the faculty.
But distance learning courses, and exams the organization of which is seriously slipping.
At the beginning of January 2021, only a few handpicked first-year students were able to resume their course in groups of 10.
Result: the morale of the youngest is at its lowest and dropping out threatens ...
According to a survey by the Observatory for Student Life, one in three students shows signs of psychological distress.
Lea-Lisa Westerhoff
went to a distribution of free breakfasts organized by the Sorbonne in the heart of Paris ...
Young Greeks, scapegoats
And in Greece, young people have become a political issue in the fight against the coronavirus.
According to the government, their carefree attitude is at the origin of the second wave of the coronavirus ... An accusation that is very difficult to hear for a generation that feels sacrificed in more ways than one.
In Athens, Joël Bronner.
The chronicle travels in music
Vincent Théval today shows us the hidden face of Luxembourg, with
Dick Annegarn
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