Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
With the COVID-19 pandemic, war returning to Europe and the accompanying energy crisis, and a worsening economic outlook, all on top of a climate crisis, today's young Europeans are growing up in a volatile and difficult world. Concerns about economic prosperity, increasing competition for jobs, rising inflation and property prices make it difficult for young people to get ahead in life, to afford housing, to attain economic stability and to achieve a sense of satisfaction in society.
Furthermore, underpinning many of these changes is digitalisation, which is also changing the way we socialise, work and live, with emerging consequences for mental health.
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📑 World Mental Health Day 2024: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762422
📑 Future Shocks 2023: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)751428
📑 Mental health in the EU: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2023)751416
With the COVID-19 pandemic, war returning to Europe and the accompanying energy crisis, and a worsening economic outlook, all on top of a climate crisis, today's young Europeans are growing up in a volatile and difficult world. Concerns about economic prosperity, increasing competition for jobs, rising inflation and property prices make it difficult for young people to get ahead in life, to afford housing, to attain economic stability and to achieve a sense of satisfaction in society.
Furthermore, underpinning many of these changes is digitalisation, which is also changing the way we socialise, work and live, with emerging consequences for mental health.
👉 Want to dive deeper? Check out our EPRS resources:
📑 World Mental Health Day 2024: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762422
📑 Future Shocks 2023: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)751428
📑 Mental health in the EU: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2023)751416
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