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Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
🗳️ European elections represent a crucial moment: they give EU citizens a say in the political direction of the European Union. After declining ever since the first European direct elections in 1979, electoral turn out increased in the 2019 elections to reach 50.6 % largely due to youth participation (according to a post-election Eurobarometer survey).
Echoing the 2019 motto 'This time I'm voting', the 2024 one might be: 'I did it again!' The 2024 European elections could be a turning point for youth engagement for several reasons.
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_IDA(2024)757592
🗳️ European elections represent a crucial moment: they give EU citizens a say in the political direction of the European Union. After declining ever since the first European direct elections in 1979, electoral turn out increased in the 2019 elections to reach 50.6 % largely due to youth participation (according to a post-election Eurobarometer survey).
Echoing the 2019 motto 'This time I'm voting', the 2024 one might be: 'I did it again!' The 2024 European elections could be a turning point for youth engagement for several reasons.
🎧 Subscribe to EPRS Policy Podcasts: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/audio-podcasts.html
🔎 Read the in-depth analysis 'Ten issues to watch in 2024' behind this podcast:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_IDA(2024)757592
![Young Europeans go to the polls: Issues to watch in 2024 [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uc7C2bZtmqc/mqdefault.jpg "Young Europeans go to the polls: Issues to watch in 2024 [Policy Podcast]
🗳️ European elections represent a crucial moment: they give EU citizens a say in the political direction of the European Union. After declining ever since the first European direct elections in 1979, electoral turn out increased in the 2019 elections to reach 50.6 % largely due to youth participation (according to a post-election Eurobarometer survey).
Echoing the 2019 motto This time Im voting, the 2024 one might be: I did it again! The 2024 European elections could be a turning point for youth engagement for several reasons.
🎧 Subscribe to EPRS Policy Podcasts: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/audio-podcasts.html
🔎 Read the in-depth analysis Ten issues to watch in 2024 behind this podcast:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_IDA(2024)757592")
![Financing the European defence industry [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WXvo9S2SBgA/mqdefault.jpg "Financing the European defence industry [Policy Podcast]
Although the European defence industry is generally competitive, more than a decade of underinvestment has kept it from reaching its full potential. The significant under-investment in European defence is demonstrated by the severe difficulties the European defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) has in obtaining finance. Member States defence budgets will continue to be the EDTIBs main source of funding; however, more collaborative actions and spending would enhance output and efficiency.
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Financing the European defence industry
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)762383
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