Youth
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Netherlands
I’m 15, I’ll start a business
17 January 2012De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Emigration
The Greek exodus to Australia
22 December 201115The Guardian London -
United Kingdom
Rioters point to excessive policing
5 December 20111PresseuropThe Guardian -
Economic crisis
Youthful members of the full-time precariat
15 September 20114Polityka Warsaw -
31 August 2011The Independent London
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Eurozone crisis
Time to get angry, Europe
31 August 20116Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Germany
Burning cars, but only for fun
26 August 20112Der Spiegel Hamburg -
25 August 201110Die Welt Berlin
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Social unrest
The street bankers
11 August 20115Der Standard Vienna -
4 July 20111PresseuropEvenimentul zilei
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27 June 2011PresseuropPolitiken
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Latin America
The Spanish brain-drain
24 June 20112El País Madrid -
Spain
Angry Ones vacate camp
13 June 2011PresseuropABC -
7 June 20113The Guardian London
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26 May 20111PresseuropTa Nea
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24 May 2011Le Temps Geneva
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23 May 20116Público Madrid
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Economic crisis
Spain's Icelandic revolt
19 May 20118El País Madrid -
29 April 20112Wprost Warsaw
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27 April 20113El País Madrid
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Greece
Give the young a chance
15 March 2011Kathimerini Athens -
Bulgaria
Return of a nation's gilded youth
3 March 20111Tema Sofia -
14 February 20112Público Lisbon
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Editorial
Learning from Tunisia
21 January 20111Presseurop -
Emigration
Portugal’s lost generation
25 November 2010Público Lisbon -
Europe / Turkey
Lure of the Bosphorus
17 November 2010Le Monde Paris -
Job market
To be young… and doomed
17 August 2010PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Portugal
A generation in danger
20 January 20101Público Lisbon -
Nightlife
Paris, city of... lights out
16 December 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Education
Anarchy in the uni
13 November 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
After 1989
Blooming boho Berlin
9 November 2009Les Inrockuptibles Paris -
Sociology
The importance of being adult
31 October 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Tourism
Don’t celebrate, escalate
20 July 2009Der Spiegel Hamburg -
20 July 2009PresseuropTa Nea
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14 July 2009PresseuropInformation
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Economic Crisis
Forgetting Spain
10 July 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Germany
Generation angst
15 June 2009PresseuropDer Spiegel
Whether it’s making iPhone apps or delivering organic food on a bicycle, junior entrepreneurs are creating their own lucrative business in the Netherlands, with or without assistance from their school. 
For young Europeans from crisis stricken states, booming Australia has become a new land of opportunity. This is especially true for a new generation of Greek graduates, joining the largest expatriate Greek community in the world. 
The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed "the precariat" by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. 
Following riots on the Costa Brava, and hotel balcony deaths in Majorca, the Spanish authorities are increasingly looking at ways to crack down on alcohol tourism. 
The European common currency is in trouble, several EU countries are facing mountains of debt and solidarity within the bloc is declining. It is European youth, in particular, who have drawn the short stick. Closer cooperation is the only way forward. 
Hundreds of cars have gone up in smoke in Hamburg and Berlin in recent months. But try as they might, officials have been unable to stop the series of arson attacks. Now, it looks as though the perpetrators are no longer just leftist extremists – but a Hamburg taskforce has made little headway. 
A Europe long at peace is once again a seething continent. In France, Greece and Spain crowds of youths are out demonstrating against their situation, and in London they have reduced neighbourhoods to rubble and ashes. What is going wrong here? wonders a German columnist. 
Europe is bailing out its financial centres, but not its youth. Three basic conditions – education, employment and housing – are denied them. So when they fight back, says Der Standard's writer, they're just following the message from the top: take what you can and get out. 
Faced with record unemployment and poor job prospects, a generation of young Spaniards is decamping to the economic boomtowns of Latin America
It might be hailed as one of Europe’s economic success stories, but Poland’s health and social services are crumbling, and its well-qualified youth are increasingly preferring exile over low-paid, futureless unemployment back home. 
On 22 May, the Spanish electorate severely reprimanded the ruling Socialist party at the local and regional elections, while throughout the country demonstrations and sit-ins are taking place calling for more political democracy. But perhaps the movement isn't structured enough to last. 
After passively submitting to the crisis, young Spaniards have finally taken to the street. Breaking out on the eve of municipal elections, the protests of recent days have been inspired by those in Iceland that led to the fall of the government in Reykjavik. 
How many will leave the country? As Germany and Austria open their borders to workers from several Central and Eastern European countries, Polish authorities fear a new exodus of labour. 
Unemployment, precariousness, an uncertain future: Spanish youth has been hit hard by the economic crisis. And that’s why they won’t revolt, writes El País.
In spite of a softening of the conditions of the rescue package, decided by the Eurozone states on 11 March, the Greek population is increasingly pessimistic about the capacity of their leaders to overcome the ongoing financial crisis. A Kathimerini columnist points out that debate on the issue has overlooked the country’s major resource — its young people, who have been sadly neglected. 
The brain drain is a serious issue for Bulgarians. But not all of the country’s young people leave for good. Those who have opted to return home after studies abroad have even created an association to build bridges with the rest of Bulgarian society. 
So that one section of the population can benefit from long-standing social entitlements, another — that is to say the young people who are our children — is deprived of all its rights. 
Portugal has never had so many graduates, but at the same time, it has never been so hard for young people to find work. Faced with a choice between dead-end jobs and a ticket to another life, they are leaving in droves — a lost generation in the making. 
They were born and raised in Germany, France and Belgium. But now, faced with the difficulty of finding work and a career in those countries, more and more European Turks are choosing to move to Istanbul. 
In the United Kingdom, they call them "the lost generation" – 16 to 25-year-olds entering the working world against a backdrop of economic crisis and recession, who experience major difficulties finding and keeping jobs, even when they are well qualified. Público warns that the phenomenon is also taking hold in Portugal.
Once a nightclubber's paradise, Paris has lost much of its old magic. Chief culprits are anti-noise laws, smoking bans and sky-high rents. But a group of nightlife professionals are striking back, cafebabel.com reports. 
French university reforms saw the birth of revolts and street protests, but also the emergence of alternative higher education projects. Cafebabel reports from self-governing universities that aim to abolish hierachy and reiterate the much-attacked notion that education is an end in itself, and not just about getting a job. 
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Berlin has been blasting borders right, left and centre. Art, music and the “new tribes” are flourishing on the rubble of the past. A tour of the freest city in Europe. 
The transition to adulthood varies from one country to another. For sociologist Cécile Van de Velde, the author of a new study on the subject, the Scandinavian model is the best suited to the needs of young people. Interview with cafebabel.com: 
Every year, tens of thousands of German secondary school graduates descend by the busload on the beaches of Southern Europe to party, now that they are done with their finals: both a bonanza and a poisoned chalice for the towns hosting these binging teens. A report from the Spanish Costa Brava. 
At 35.4%, the jobless rate for young adults in Spain is one of the highest in the EU. Three out of ten Spaniards under the age of 25 are out of work. Many of them leave the country to try their luck abroad.