Next elections
Stepping up democracy and the hopes of Europeans
Christelle Savall
President of the Young European Federalists
Many words have resurfaced in the early 2020s : quarantine , curfew , etc . Words that were no longer in use in everyday life in most of Europe or were only used in a very limited time or space .
War . War never went away , but it was tuned out because , since the Yugoslav wars , it has never felt as close as it does now . Conflicts in Europe in the 21st century were at the edge of the continent and became ( semi- ) frozen conflicts rather than escalating . War in Europe was not a front-page topic for the past four elections . However , for the European elections of 2024 , war and its consequences are taking centre stage again .
Those negative words also brought with them more positive words that were present for a long time but now went from simple ideas to realities . A case in point is common EU borrowing , which became reality thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic through the Next
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