{"id":124961,"date":"2024-01-29T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-elections-europes-youngest-mep-on-how-to-engage-young-people\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:10:59","slug":"eu-elections-europes-youngest-mep-on-how-to-engage-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-elections-europes-youngest-mep-on-how-to-engage-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"EU elections: Europe\u2019s youngest MEP on how to engage young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe 2019 European elections saw the highest turnout since 1994 &#8211; driven by a surge in youth participation. But what are young people&#8217;s priorities ahead of this year&#8217;s elections and how can the EU engage them? \u201cI often hear that I don&#8217;t have enough experience. But I&#8217;m 25 now and you have a number of MEPs who have been here longer than I have been born. I think to me that&#8217;s totally crazy\u201d, Europe&#8217;s youngest MEP Kira Marie Peter-Hansen tells Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Peter-Hansen is a member of the Greens\u2013European Free Alliance. She was elected at the age of 21 in the 2019 European Parliamentary elections. The Danish politician is one of 720 MEPs who will stand in June\u2019s elections and one of Europe&#8217;s six parliamentarians aged under 30 years old. &#8220;If you want developments within politics, of course, it&#8217;s good to have experience and the historical knowledge, but perhaps there is a point where you can start to think, should someone else, have the chance to make a difference?&#8221;, states Peter-Hansen.<\/p>\n<p>Although her party was supportive of her young age, Peter-Hansen insists that parties across the spectrum are increasingly warming to young candidates, &#8220;the Green party has young candidates but at the other end of the spectrum the far-right parties also has young politicians,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>European states set the age at which candidates can stand to become MEPs. The threshold varies across Europe, in 16 member states candidates must be at least 18 years old to run. In Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia candidates must be 21 years old. In Romania candidates must be 23 years old, whereas the threshold is 25 years old in Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of young politicians in the European Parliament, the prospect of youth engagement for the 2024 elections looks hopeful. The 2019 European elections saw the highest turnout since 1994, driven by a surge in youth participation as outlined by a Eurobarometer survey. Last year, the Young European Federalists (JEF) launched a mass survey to determine what young European&#8217;s key concerns are. Over 1.5 million votes were submitted by Europeans aged between 18-35 years old. &#8220;Reforming institutions, the economy and addressing the climate crisis came out on top&#8221;, Christelle Savall, President of JEF tells Euronews.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/01\/29\/eu-elections-europes-youngest-mep-on-how-to-engage-young-people\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/01\/29\/eu-elections-europes-youngest-mep-on-how-to-engage-young-people\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/eu-elections-europes-youngest-mep-on-how-to-engage-young-people\/\">EU elections: Europe\u2019s youngest MEP on how to engage young people<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13136,274,1336,606,607,608,1581],"class_list":["post-124961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-electins","tag-eu","tag-people","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-young"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}