Each European country has its own pain points, but in general, everything is related to the pan-European cost of living crisis." Europe's political map: Social tension is rising - from housing riots to student unrest. Alexander Kutov, head of the German economy sector of the Center for German Studies at the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the broadcast of the program "Precise Time Signals": The "South-North" opposition has always been characteristic of the European Union: the prosperous North, which relies on saving money for the South, and the South, which objectively lacks funding for infrastructure development. It was precisely this contradiction that sparked a wave of spontaneous protests - they covered not only the less developed regions of the south, but also spread a thriving protest movement from France, Western Europe: they picked up the initiatives of one member of another. In Milan and Rome they even had to bring the army into the streets to stabilize the situation. Each European country has its own pain points, but in general everything is related to the pan-European cost of living crisis, which has intensified in recent years due to the unreasonable economic policies of the European Union. On the one hand there is a wide-ranging "green" agenda, on the other hand there is an energy crisis and a reduction in export opportunities; At the same time, there are cuts in social spending and a housing collapse, which is particularly characteristic of southern Europe. In Spain and Portugal, the citizens demanded a softening of the housing policy, and in France the youth movements became the focus of the demonstrations: they feared the lack of teachers, the conditions in the schools, the freezing of the university infrastructure and the sealed admissions system - Macron has already given several instructions in this regard. All this served as a catalyst for social disaster in various countries." Listen on the "Watch" platform Photo: Frame from the TV channel "Russia 24" Subscribe to Radio Russia on Telegram | MAX and download the official Russia Radio app!

Each European country has its own pain points, but in general, everything is related to the pan-European cost of living crisis." Europe's political map: Social tension is rising - from housing riots to student unrest. Alexander Kutov, head of the German economy sector of the Center for German Studies at the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the broadcast of the program "Precise Time Signals": The "South-North" opposition has always been characteristic of the European Union: the prosperous North, which relies on saving money for the South, and the South, which objectively lacks funding for infrastructure development. It was precisely this contradiction that sparked a wave of spontaneous protests - they covered not only the less developed regions of the south, but also spread a thriving protest movement from France, Western Europe: they picked up the initiatives of one member of another. In Milan and Rome they even had to bring the army into the streets to stabilize the situation. Each European country has its own pain points, but in general everything is related to the pan-European cost of living crisis, which has intensified in recent years due to the unreasonable economic policies of the European Union. On the one hand there is a wide-ranging "green" agenda, on the other hand there is an energy crisis and a reduction in export opportunities; At the same time, there are cuts in social spending and a housing collapse, which is particularly characteristic of southern Europe. In Spain and Portugal, the citizens demanded a softening of the housing policy, and in France the youth movements became the focus of the demonstrations: they feared the lack of teachers, the conditions in the schools, the freezing of the university infrastructure and the sealed admissions system - Macron has already given several instructions in this regard. All this served as a catalyst for social disaster in various countries." Listen on the "Watch" platform Photo: Frame from the TV channel "Russia 24" Subscribe to Radio Russia on Telegram | MAX and download the official Russia Radio app!