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2026-10-21 23:18:43Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Ashifa Kassam - The Guardian

In France, it was piles of trash cans placed in front of school entrances that first signaled the extent of student anger over dilapidated classrooms and teacher shortages. In Spain, it was a tent camp that expanded into the heart of the capital as residents protested the high cost of housing.

Similar scenes have since emerged in Belgium, Italy and Portugal, while clashes have rocked the Albanian capital, Tirana, heralding an autumn of protests across Europe.

Much of the media reporting in recent days has focused on the violence that erupted on the fringes of protests in France and Italy. The protests themselves, however, show a diverse response to a common crisis: a growing perception, especially among younger generations, that governments are unable or unprepared to deliver affordable housing, social equality and sustainable public services. “This is the most powerful warning from the angry youth of Europe today, in France and across the continent,” said political analyst Alberto Alemanno.

This framework stands in stark contrast to many right-wing and extremist voices that have sought to exploit the violence in France and Italy, linking it without evidence to immigration, while ignoring the broader demands of the protesters.

Officials in France have denied any link between the violence and immigration. President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that the “uncontrolled violence” was carried out by French citizens. Alemanno, a professor of EU law at the HEC business school in Paris, said he had received an unprecedented number of calls from right-wing and xenophobic media outlets in recent days, many of them seeking to fuel the idea of ​​the protests as some kind of “pan-European revolt.”

He describes this narrative as false.

“The protests have different causes and do not necessarily share political objectives,” he wrote this week. “Yet their rapid spread reveals a common weakness: many young Europeans doubt that existing institutions can offer them the security, opportunity, and voice they expect.”

The director of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Célia Belin, said that some of these suspicions are currently being reinforced in France.

“Faced with the high dissatisfaction of young people in high schools, the government has no answer for them,” she said, citing an administration constrained financially by a high deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio, as well as politically by a blocked parliament. “Basically the answer is: ‘There’s no money, we can’t do anything.’ And that’s a big problem.”

This stance also reflects that of the general secretary of the CGT union in France, Sophie Binet, after Saturday's protests where about half a million people took to the streets against the cost of living and deteriorating public services.

Binet condemned the violence but noted that the government had little choice when it came to quelling the protests. “Today’s mobilization confirms the depth of the anger,” she said. “To get out of the crisis, there is only one way. To respond to the demands.”

Albania has also been rocked by massive student demonstrations over the past week, following protests initially sparked by a proposal to build a resort backed by Donald Trump's family.

In Milan, people took to the streets to protest the cost of living, giving voice to deep inequalities that already permeate a city where, according to reports, one in 12 people is a millionaire.


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