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Nine countries in turmoil: Is Europe at a political turning point?

Europe Protests: Protests by young people across nine European countries against the rising cost of living, housing shortages and neglect of education raise a crucial question: could this wave of unrest reshape Europe's established political order and herald a new ‘European Spring’?

Asish Gupta
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Nine countries in turmoil: Is Europe at a political turning point?

Since mid-October, protests, strikes and student movements in at least nine European countries have once again moved to the centre of political debate. The reasons for the unrest in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Austria and Albania are not identical. In some countries, people are protesting against the rising cost of living; in others, the soaring cost of housing, inadequate funding for education, corruption, unemployment or plans to introduce compulsory military serv...

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