Zack Balzan

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248 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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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

And that's really hard in a in a age of disinformation, of deep fakes and now AI is becoming a real problem.

So so yeah, I believe these are the main problems that my article tried to analyze and tackle.

Thank you, Elise.

I think I totally agree with you on so many aspects.

And continuing on this idea of how our youth is being tokenized, how we are gramat like dramatically being taken advantage of without even us realizing doom scrolling, everything has become monetized in a certain way, contributes to our overall

Well-being in a negative sense.

And this impacts us in a way that we don't quite understand because it has an economic effect, right?

Seven out of ten young Europeans are stressed about economic situations and how they might survive the

End of the month, right?

Going to groceries, going out with friends is become a constant stress.

And also 82% are worried that the menace of poverty and inequalities will rise up.

And actually they're right.

Inequality, even in Europe, is rising up.

We're seeing rich people getting richer and poorer people getting poorer.

And of course, students on the poorest.

side so we get obviously more affected by that.

If I'm trying to link with my my article here is um painting quite a bleak uh situation, oblique scene because as well subject I really want to touch upon is how the far right is picking up a lot of votes from young people and how Europe is sort

Of being static in this situation and not actually helping.

I'm I talked about it previous in the previous podcast quite rapidly, but a lot of young people are now diverting their votes towards the far right.

And we can see that in the last European elections in two thousand twenty four in France, thirty two percent of the twenty five to thirty four years old and the twenty

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