From France to Belgium, Ireland to Spain, young Europeans are increasingly taking their frustrations to the streets. In France, high-school students have blockaded hundreds of schools over overcrowding, missing teachers and an education system they say is failing them. In Belgium, students have been protesting education reforms and budget cuts, while thousands marched in Ireland last week over the cost of college, transport and housing. Spain is different. Its housing protests are not student-led, but young people are among those most exposed to a crisis that is making independent adulthood increasingly difficult. These are separate movements, yet together they reveal a generational anxiety that goes beyond any single policy.
