Zack Balzan

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Making sense of EU - Institut d'études européennes of the ULB · Talking with EU - episode 16: "Young, European and free: rights, opportunities and voices of young Europeans" · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

ULB Podcast.

Les podcasts de l'Université libre de Bruxelles.

Hi, thank you for having me.

So m my article really tackles how the EU considers its youth, right?

And often we believe that it's it's sort of either black or white.

So badly loved or badly listened.

And Malémé ou Malécouté in French it sounds better of course.

So we have this idea the as Europeans born in Europe, the we are born in this stable

More or less economically, but also practically continent.

And in reality, our numbers coming from a lot of health organizations, but also from statistical organizations are showing quite the contrary.

In Europe, suicide is the secondary cause for death amongst younger people.

Europeans and one out of six young Europeans uh suffer from mental health disorders.

So this is worrying, and this is what my article essentially talks about how we are suffering, right, from various problems, uh also a lot of external problems that are tied to politics, and yet our politicians

Seem to sort of not listen to us, tackle the wrong issues that care that we care about.

So yeah, I I I think essentially this subject is at the center of the survivability of the EU itself.

Because the relation that we have towards the EU as young people is very important for its own survivability, its own survival.

survival in not just in our conscience but as we grow older.

And so my article tries to provide um solutions to that, right?

More investment is being directed towards youth across many projects, but essentially it's also about restoring political um narratives that are positive, right, about the EU and sharing them with youth.

rather than uh constantly seeing how the the EU is negatively impacting us.

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