'Selfies' and social media fail to entice young EU voters


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 May 2014

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In an entirely unscientific poll, 10 young Europeans were recently asked if they could identify any of the top three candidates in this week's European Parliament elections. Only one of them could.

The survey of students at the Marie-Haps Institute, a university in Brussels, was a light-hearted exercise, but it illustrated a serious point: no sector of society is more disconnected from European politics than first-time voters.

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