Why are Gen Z Europeans Voting for the Far Right?

Contrary to popular assumptions, it appears that younger Europeans are getting more rightwing than previous generations, with many expecting to vote for far right parties in upcoming elections. So what exactly is motivating this shift in Gen-Z politics?

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[TLDRnewsEU]

P.S. we nonetheless made a number of errors in this video, including:
- misnaming Germany's Social Democrats as the Socialists
- typo suggesting 11 year old Finns could vote
- presenting Flanders-specific polling as Belgium-wide polling.

For these errors, we can only apologise: we know that this is a recurring problem and we should be doing better.

Nonetheless, thanks for watching - Zac

[martinw]

Something you didn’t talk about is immigration, which at least in Belgium is nearly the only reason people vote for the far right.

[jonathanfontaine]

You must be pretty astronomically out of touch with EU politics if you can make a 9 minute video with this title, without even once mentioning immigration.

[korakys]

Young people are far more concerned about what the country will be like in 2 decades.

[deansgate_wlc]

Leaving out immigration is you not doing a very good job on this one. It’s a huge factor.

[mariocuric]

2 Things:

1. Immigration
2. Old people draining the system

[Maximum_Swag_Engaged]

Immigration is a main issue. In the Netherlands young people are unable to find houses. Boomers are sitting on tons of wealth and immigration laws make it so we have to give immigrants housing as well. Dutch youth is feeling forgotten.

[ladhkay]

9 min vid yet still not getting that it's immigration

[tammuz]

TLDR: "We swear, we're not biased."

Also TLDR: Never addresses that immigration is an existential problem for Europe.

[claytonclarkson]

TLDR: it's because anti establishmentism and social media

Comment section: it's immigration

[sit-insforsithis]

And not even mentioning immigration is wild

[Kerbal]

The whole world is about to have a massive rightward swing

[darthcalanil]

Even in the US, young Guys are massively shifting right. While almost everywhere Single women are even more left.

[glennhopkins]

Number 1 issue - Immigration legal and illegal.

[stonebeetle]

Why are Eastern and Central Europe being ignored when made such polls?

[moriscondo]

I was on a bus in a ski resort in USA about 2-3 years ago and a young woman from sweden was talking to someone and I overheard what she said. She literally left due to islamic immigrants ruining her home country. Her words, not mine!

[gdok]

Ignoring the elephant in the room, immigration, can only be due to political correctness, 'wokeness' and a fear of being called racist - the very things that got us into this mess in the first place.

[oliverstianhugaas]

We have no money - We have no stable jobs - We will never own a house - We will never be able to retire.

[iska]

For the love of God, how can you ignore the elephant in the room : immigration !

[morte]

That's not far right, that's just right.