The coronavirus should not dominate. We Europeans also focus on latent threats. Is the precarious situation of young people sufficiently recognized and addressed?  One book has the irritating title “Why Europe must become a Republic!” But it is a very stimulating book and worth discussing. Written by Ulrike Guérot, a professor at Danube University Krems, she is well versed

in EU internal affairs, offering a lot of impulses from the perspective of the younger generation and draws attention to precarious living conditions and emphasizes the regions and smaller EU states.

There are major economic and social problems in France, mostly in deserted and sprawling rural regions. One in three (35%) in these areas vote for the nationalist “Front National”. This development is easily overlooked because it is obscured by the vote of the majority.

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