How a mixture of economic problems, dealing with the past and growing up in perpetual separation influences the perspectives of a whole generation. Three journalist report about their experiences of meeting young Europeans in Cyprus, Kosovo and Croatia.

Do you think young people are not interested in politics? You´re wrong! Do you think young people aspire to an open and free European Union? You are wrong! Do you think populism is a new trend? You´re right…

Protesting people on the streets, angry faces and burning EU flags. When the economic crisis hit the countries of the European Union from 2008 on, the world was turned upside down for many citizens. People lost their jobs, their savings and some even their hope for a prosperous future.

Team Discrimination travelled to the eastern external borders of the European Union to report on discriminated minorities and to investigate old resentments. In Latvia the team was confronted with discrimination by law, in Hungary and Romania with discrimination that is quite courteous. In all three countries discrimination is persistent enough to bring out a generation separation.

Europe was built upon the idea of uniting the people. No easy task of course. Almost every country within the European Union is a mix of different cultures, histories and languages.