European Parliament’s Post

European are homeless. Living in a van is romanticised but a very popular solution at this moment. It is a form of poverty. We are not talking about a holiday, we are talking about thousands of people who have been in their van or caravan for years as a "temporary solution" and many of them have a job... With an insufficient salary for nothing better. It is a huge issue. The next "best" step is to spend time in substandard housing, outdated, in deplorable conditions, without heating, with insulation problems and that sort of thing. I don't know how this situation has been allowed in the first world. It is a disgrace. Some example: I met a couple of developers with a baby who lived in a TENT last year. They spend 2 months in winter in an Airbnb since it was the only place they can afford with average salaries. In a TENT... With tremendous effort, they bought a van and now is their house. It is not only one isolated case, it is one of thousands. Europe MUST do something about this. People are literally starving in the streets. Total shame.

Migration and safety should be on top it's the source of all misery bringing the belief in EU totally down &creating a never seen pessimism. The cost of it is sky-high but does not affect eurocrats . That's totally wrong to put all burden on people people are right because. EU does not even show compassion for all victims caused by illegals & Co.shame on EU.

While at the first sight this might be shocking, I understand them: for them democracy and the rule of law is granted, they read and hear about gender equality every day, migration and asylum is not important for them, defense and security are (until today) low on the agenda, and they had or are having their education. It is logic that they mostly are concerned about the first four items. However, this may change, when they suddenly realise that on the contrary, democracy and the rule of law is the basis to have all the other things ... , and gender equality is important for at least 50% of the population... Nice statistics.

I think you are to slow. Do it again today: It will be security...

Sad ... it seems the average EU population holds a very selfish perspective on politics. Rising prices as number one issue and then seeing my country as number one (shameful) and various other quite spoiled countries (Germany, France) with high percentages. Well, as long as the lines on airports, the extreme overconsumption of non-essential goods (electrogadgets, fashion, entertainment, plastic fantastic decoration stuff etc.) are overwhelmingly assessed, priority of what is actually necessary in daily life (healthy and sustainably produced food) is not enough in their awareness. I think that EU should really end manipulative marketing and make consumers aware about a healthy way of spending their household budgets.

They can't complain about costs of living because they already live in one of the best places in the world, hence the amount of immigrants wanting to come here is huge. But there will be absolutely no living if these youth, who have lived too well for too long and have become lazy amd dependant, do not see some real life struggles and if Europe as a whole does not begin to invest heavily in its own defense. Even more so, EU needs to build a tighter political and military cooperation system, to make a big step closer towards the united states of Europe. Otherwise European countries will be chomped off one by one, by their aggressive ans uncivilized neighbors.

It seems to me Brussels played its cards and before it does anything more wastefully technocratic, we should review the form and functions of that institution. Until then, sovereign countries should start to verify the money they contribute. Time for a reorganisation and one of the crisis management kind. The EU organisation has become an extreme bureaucratic self sustaining body that seems to have that as her sole purpose almost. In normal times the entire commission would have resigned by now.

The cost of living (and, undoubtedly, the cost of eating) is a critical issue, and I completely understand their priorities. In food banks, we have increasingly seen more young people seeking support. There is no doubt that we must work towards improving this situation.

Listening to opinions is good, but now the EU needs policy action to address these findings. To achieve these already very well documented needs, Europe needs to trigger European private investment. This can only be done through the implementation of a rapid and clear European “Rulebook”, i.e. Industrial Policy, including strong long term protection from foreign dumping practices, with globally competitive public funding focus on cleantech (clean energy), defense, healthcare and AI. This will trigger the private funding that has been lingering in Europe (waiting for policy clarity), and accelerate the scale up of these critical industries that are ready to grow, and that will define the future of Europe’s economic and social continuity.