The European Parliament is still in its summer recess until 1 September. The European Youth Forum has used the summer break to take a closer look at the young MEPs under the age of 35 in each country.

It is particularly remarkable that five countries did not elect any members under 35 to parliament, namely Belgium, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg and Romania.

Are you surprised that there are so few young MEPs in the European Parliament? How could the representation of young voices be improved?

Source: Youth Forum, as of August 2024

  • @[email protected]English
    18•4 months ago

    All current 27 EU members combined. Some statistics use EU-28 to keep the statistics compareable with pre Brexit numbers. However in this case that it does not make sense.

    • macnielEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      I see. The one who made that graphic could have been a bit more descriptive as all diagrams were based on country. Why the combined value amidst those? It’s rather confusing.

      But thanks for the explanation.

      • aasatru
        4•4 months ago

        For better or for worse, it’s a pretty common way of doing it. Having it presented among the other countries in this graph makes it very quick to check if a country is better or worse than the EU average.