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

96% of the 18 to 24 years old voted for the Rassemblement National Marine Le Pense Party.

And so those numbers are are keep rising up.

We see as well in in uh Vox the party, the far right party in Spain has been quite acclaimed by the locker a lot of young people who see um the return to patriarchal values as something good and positive for society when

Of course, uh the last fifty years, five decades have been trying to debunk that and trying to fight against that and its terrible impact on our mental health.

And of course we see uh AfD, alternative for Deutschland in in Germany also making a significant uh electoral impact and gaining um terrain.

So Europe is essentially in a

Bad spot right now.

And there is the complexity that you've spoken about.

We are not interacting with our peers as much as our previous generations are, uh, were, and therefore, we are diverging directly to online content, media, AI, and without really having any critical thinking skills to analyze the information behind it.

Or?

There is a lot of confirmation.

Information bias.

There is a lot of bias in general when we have news and we prefer by convenience but also maybe because it's fascinated by friends to only watch one source of stream of information.

And this is where the far right or extremist ideologies creep in quite easily.

And of course you always have defenders of those ideologies, right?

Uh Donald Trump famously had all this horde of podcasters that spoke positively about him and were essentially denigrating the entire idea of democracy when you know the United States was the first democracy in the world, or at least one of the first.

And we're left with this idea that only

Only sort of politics students, only students that study social sciences or subjects related to that, I would say, for example, psychology, have the critical thinking skills of, you know, avoiding those biases.

And that's not what we want.

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