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Serbia’s student movement won a parliamentary majority tonight. Not one of its 250 candidates is a student. That choice is the most interesting thing about the result.
The grievances that drove Kenya's youth into the streets in 2024 -- cost of living, corruption, unemployment -- never actually went away, even after the government backed down.
The EU's flagship youth employment guarantee just hit a record-low NEET rate, but the scheme itself is reaching less than half the people it is meant to serve.
Georgia's pro-EU protests have run for over 500 days without a single concession from the government, and neither side seems close to backing down.
Even though South Africa's youth has the potential to define the outcomes of November's local elections, most of them don't plan to vote.
CYP brought together 15 young leaders from 11 nations for a three day forum.
Moroccan youth have shown to be powerful in the streets, but their goals of toppling the existing government have been stunted. Can the upcoming election be the change they hoped for?
At 36, Ruben Rubinyan was elected speaker of Armenia's National Assembly. He has spent four years running normalization talks with Turkey, making his election far more than just a symbol of youth involvement.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union has tracked youth representation in parliaments since 2014. Its newest report is the first to show no progress at all, with young female MPs seeing a jarring decrease in representation.
