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as long as our coffee and his friends can drink. this movie theater in kenya as dobbs refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a whole. 27 years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema stars may 27th on w. europe and its young people a complicated relationship. the demonstration against climate change back and interested in the european election it was just if you thought about you not really . do you vote it's going out as much i think my parents will make me vote seeing.
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we wanted to find out what young people think about europe we visited several e.u. countries including germany we met people who were committed to the european concept. because if these votes and those who are opposed to it. are the leader of means nothing to me. how can politicians get young people interested but the idea if we want europe to have a future of young people here need a future so. we
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traveled to cologne in early march right in the middle of a windstorm. that stormy times for europe. and the volunteers are trying to get young people to vote in the upcoming european election. all of europeans part of the e.u. like a family media hype us fund that i love my dad's french and my mom's german so europe is really important to me as the head don't know what other games should be a. disadvantage as part of an e.u. column and it had to get out the followers it's cold this time on boats. volunteers can sign up on a website. with one focus on begin on we want to get out into the streets and explain to people why this election matters it's. molten 250000 volunteers straw out europe have already registered the parliament provides
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information brochures and other materials but unfortunately no one bellows. to do something. like this are you going to vote no for europe why not don't know how come on at least think about it you know it's a please please vote when you vote why no it's pointless why it's no use come on. the volunteers don't discuss issues they just want people to vote might not want you should be proud that you can vote for concrete a team dismissed me as the political parties are responsible for addressing specific issues. i have to remain absolutely neutral because it's union card companies kinds of campaigns really get out the vote research a class pearlman is an expert on how young people think and behave. as
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if last very long i have my doubts about a general sort of campaign the young people will vote in european elections only if the campaign addresses specific issues that are important to them is does he mumbled so if the politicians want more young people to vote they'll have to talk about those issues that's. one of the volunteers is deanna to live and she's a star on you tube an instagram and says the european concept is important for young people. if it's of time so i think it's totally implode. to show that in the united europe we can have more innovation and opportunity especially for young people and. they think that is the that like it has more influence than individual countries continents or powerful corporations have. a few maktab.
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for 6 years now indiana has been posting photos and videos on the internet. the rest my readers i shoot most of my videos in my bedroom i like that homey feeling because it brings you closer to the viewers who are. in the food indiana has more than 600000 you tube subscribers she usually talks about fashion and cosmetics yeah that's the cons welcome to a new video today i'm going to talk about a topic close to my hut cellulite. this is my favorite right now. yeah that's why i like this and not it's not floor length so your legs may get cold i think. donna has turned into a profession for cosmetics and fashion companies pay her to promote their products and videos so they can reach your followers. if it comes to that so you do politics now you have. to i'm sort of a role model and i have
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a community that i can exchange ideas with. that i'm into politics now so i wanted to share that to me was the thought of tires. today deanna is in brussels the e.u. parliament has invited several internet service to campaign on behalf of europe. you've. covered us here in france i'm sure in how to create some nice content and post it online and maybe that we have their followers interested in europe and the upcoming election. campaign how about interconnected your. well that's that's it. do young people take the e.u. for granted because they don't know what the all jews are up was like to find out more about that we travel to business.
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these young people are a part of the erasmus student exchange program that come from all over europe. it comes from phil austria england i'm from a southerner i'm from belgium from london from swabian. malta 9000000 students have taken part in the arrest most program since it began in 1987. people to be all europeans are different but they're also connected and that's really beautiful this is a drop it should i think it's really important to make people from different cultures because it's a broad and it's your perspective which i by this over time we've become more european than german i've seen that here and it surprised me and yeah the. rest of the stuff believe that the organization has changed the way that young
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people look to europe for the better. and restless is the most successful program of the you are that you can see that from statistics from the budget from everything and it really works it has creating ass and so belonging to the e.u. and that then off duty and responsibility towards the us citizens lasting friendships and about a quarter of the arrest most students meet their long term partner on the exchange it's been said that there are over $1000000.00 of us most babies but the program can only go so far. as much as we try to prepare europeans for a european future we also have to realise that the middle classes can be quite nationalistic and that's true for all countries this is an i. and that's. where on the road again this time we're headed for the heart of european politics brussels.
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this is m.p. . the german social democrat is just and he 31 of the youngest members of the european parliament he's trying to reach young people with his you tube channel i have to hi and welcome to another episode of wednesday minutes recommend. and welcome to sorry why did you choose you choose to mention by your mention that because young people watch it for information and entertainment. there are other platforms and your habits can change but right now you tube is the place to be a place to be. and then again ladies and gentlemen welcome to our press conference the 1st question please. is the e.u. to blame we abolished roaming charges. did some european commission bureaucrat decide the cucumber should look like this. and not like this some countries i got
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my voting card there is the voting machine and now we're going to take a roll call vote let's do it but there's an old employés may think this is silly. they did at the start. i did walk through the room with a video camera and record my reports. some people looked at me like i was crazy i don't know what these videos get results. and these days no one seems to mind. now we're headed for a session of the legal affairs committee today they're going to vote on a topic that a lot of young people are interested in because of plymouth revotes the mint is relaxed. you're in the minority. but for now the legal committee is going to
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vote on the e.u.'s controversial internet copyright legislation social media use is dead set against the proposal. as a bit in short this law is going to strangle the internet in a way that we couldn't have imagined in our worst nightmares in the air toyman could then try to take away the content freedom that lets me do my job. as have our everyday lives will be totally screwed. this is what chose to. article 13 is designed to protect copyrighted material and block illegal content at least that's what the bill's all that axel vos says but opponents are concerned that some legal content could also be banned. come spiriting and off you can draft regulations for this and we should that. but if young europeans decide that this legislation is ruining an important part of their lives. then we're making
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a huge mistake and divide in many ways it's a clash between generations vulcan provides his followers with updates via instagram. next we'll travel to grades where a lot of young people can't find jobs. the last 10 years have been tough for greece as the country dealt with a devastating economic crisis the situation has improved a little but news on employment still stands at just under 40 percent. the move if you want to get our 2 countries on the stark for the younger generation is always hit hard by such crises a lot of people who already have jobs can make it through somehow. but there just aren't any new jobs for young people who now have that i book.
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mismanagement tax evasion corrupt relates crushing national debt and then the global financial crisis. the e.u. provided financial rescue packages in return greece had to slash government spending but a lot of the european aid money went to the big bang. banks many greeks lost their jobs and pensions taxes saud poverty and deprivation has become rampant here. this is the german school in athens almost all of the students are great most of them come from well to do families but they're still worried about whether they'll be able to find a job after they graduate. you know i think i've lost faith. i'm afraid for the future will i be able to work here in greece
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i have no idea what these things are a mess in greece right now maybe life is better in other countries he says but. many students feel they'll have to leave the country to find a job that includes a lanie kind of molly. content and really here if i could stay here i would i like living in athens there's a good university here but i won't be able to find a job after i graduate so i'll have to move to another european country. we visited a nice family a child my mother works as an interpreter and her father is an architect. journey economic crisis the family had to sell the house and move into an apartment. above the parents refused to cut back on the children's education. and do this for them
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for their by thinking we wanted them to continue their studies that's why we sold the house. we set priorities we thought it was more important for the children to have a good education than to keep the house. and how. many does have to move to another country to find work she will but she'd like to come back to greece eventually. if unemployment is still high 5 years from now i'll have to stay away. so it all depends on the economy. i have no say in the matter. more than $500000.00 graves more than 4 percent of the population have already left the country many of them are young and well educated. quarreling by the builder. education is expensive both for the government and for families so people are spending all this money and these highly
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qualified people will go off to another country to find a job other countries benefit from them not us. that's a real problem. and probably. we try to talk to some students about that. so as we have to ask the something. then a protest march comes down the street we don't speak greek so we can't read what's on the banners it turns out that the demonstrators are upset about poor conditions in the hospitals as a result of e.u. ordered budget cuts. i wouldn't want greece in the european union not to because i don't like it because of the measures i meant problem is that they are not with the people there with the money the european union is not a people going on with solidarity it's a capitalist union. many on the greek left a critical of the
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a you in 2015 the new left wing prime minister and access to press called a referendum on whether greece should accept new bailout conditions sit by brussels 61 percent of voters said no but their voice remained on heard. a huge finance ministers worked out a new deal they demanded even more austerity from greece which had a severe impact on the country's economy. i'm glad it's the same when the. these measures did fatal damage to the greeks perception of democracy. and i believe this was the moment when people across southern europe especially young people started to turn against the e.u. . and thus have opened. the money that i want to be at the demonstration we meet. she's $28.00 and has a degree in marketing but right now she's working at a supermarket for listening for euro's an hour we asked whether she's worried about
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the future of. africa as i know that hearing this and i don't have that. china does not want to leave her country but the austerity measures have hit greek young people hard you always have to pay for your 1st i feel angry i feel that this too are fair i pay something good out to my parents and so many times to this say our better mind is going now so it's all they will is the fall in greece because of the budget cuts imposed by brussels many like china have lost their faith in the european union. from the beginning i was so looking sagal wow we are all together. and. there is a fake. and their face mask was economical you know in order to.
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heal peoples in the back of the most peoples. now we headed off to budapest. hungary has traditionally felt close ties to europe but for several years now it's euro skeptic right when government has been a thorn in the side of the. i think the. utopian union is a good idea on its own but i think their countries there should stand strong on their own we in hungary are not in their position in the european union it's a good thing that we are trying to be multicultural. in some points it's risky for. and smaller countries in the european union and. that's the famous heroes square we meet viktor noise about. his father is german
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and his mother is hungary and but he doesn't feel like a european. because all things get. 50 of the i support a conservative state a nation state. and i'm opposed to the european union or the. victor is active in the right wing conservative party of prime minister viktor orban he's also involved in the election campaigns outside parliament he plans a video of a huge election rally held last year. god it's like the whole country came together on this one day. we felt strength and peace. we felt we were one country. there were just 3 emotional absolutely. i want to go far on all bombs nationalist populist rhetoric is popular with many
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young people all dance new electro laws instituted in 2012 helped secure a 2 thirds majority in last year's parliamentary election despite winning just under 50 percent of the followed. also has enormous influence over the hunky area media and the courts many independent researchers say that poses a threat to democracy but that doesn't seem to bother a lot of young people. many of them support. because he portrays himself as a rebel who is defending the hungary's freedom and yet. he says he's protecting the country against foreign enemies who threaten hungary's national identity. and national values and that's when all of our. national identity is important to victor and he says that all dan is doing a good job of defending it. almost how does he do that. and his
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strength radiate strength. he has his own opinions and he expresses those opinions and he fights for them. victor oregon's top priorities are the country and its people. want not foreigners. not refugees. mind gratian is the key issue for government in the run up to the european election the prime minister has said that his goal is to win an immigration majority in the european parliament. he uses migration to back his claims that hungary is fighting for its survival and its freedom. and when he does that he can avoid having to address other important political problems. as good as he says that this is about the future of
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hungary and europe which is a lot more important than health care or education. one of the key campaign themes is stop brussels claims that the e.u. is encouraging migrants to come to europe and he's managed to convince many young people in hungary is that we see that. this is a coordinated policy it didn't happen overnight. but why would the e.u. do that. i have no idea. but why should we have to absorb other cultures. we have our own culture. in the e.u. hungary's policies have met with robust criticism in march he was suspended from the european parliament's main center right group that allegations that ban is undermining democracy. how far will you go what is the.
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burdening books also victor believes that the e.u. strategy is clear the. aristocrats in brussels aim to take complete control of all the member states. but hungary wants to remain sovereign and determine its own domestic policy in the political process cannot and will not accept that. the victor remains firm in his political convictions and opposed to the e.u. . but there are still dedicated pro europeans in hungary the momentum movement is the central political party that was founded 2 years ago. back then the government put up stop brussels posters. we went out and covered up the brussels with stickers so that the posters read stop moscow and stop. this going to get it's difficult
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to be in opposition and hungry right now. the government plays hardball the way you'd never see in a normal democracy my father was fired from his job at a state run agency because of my political activity. but fortunately he found another job. momentum has fielded candidates for the upcoming european parliament elections. the party has a practical reason for supporting the european union hungary is one of the largest recipients of the e.u. funding. that financial support could change because of or bans policies. that we want to get into parliament to show people that hungary is more than viktor orban we are part of hungary to reason all here. we're now back in brussels deanna to live in is with us today.
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right now i'm. in the chamber where all the votes and banks take place. that's a gas can get out. of my excited and passion as a way to act and show well i think it's totally cool to be in the same room with. the other politicians debate important it's use and bad no i don't have i think they make decisions that can affect people's lives i think of them with a little intimidating beo yes there's so much power in this room. now show up dead have followers on an important committee vote on the internet copyright deal. yet once it's not on an illegal affairs committee is going to vote soon on article 13 goes to bed before the committee makes its decision there's still time for photos. for you all should i take your picture sure your 18 followers will like it
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a little more. the hole is packed for this vote. effort a lot more than last week right this is a big deal all the lobbyists are here this is a really important vote. at the start of what i want to be begin by the vote on the copyright to the direct dish and it has been that adopted by a large majority. if ok so the committee has voted yes that the step if it was the final count. 16 voted in favor 9 against it it was pretty clear boys are not related to the full european parliament voted to approve the copyright protection legislation. to my vulcan is disappointed but says that it's good that before the votes there were major protests against the bill. you mention the harms of human pretty young people have become involved in
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the political process they're demonstrating to try to stop climate change just young people are becoming more politically active. people are divided on the concept of a united europe a positive development for some a disappointment for others in any case europe is changing. yes. but i for the 1st time we're having a broad public debate about the future of europe and that's good for us i think. it's clear that many young people really do have a lot to say about europe but governments in the media will have to do a better job of listening to those young people and take a concern seriously. because they are the ones who will shape europe's future.
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