#WorldatFive 🌎: Europe is riven by deep-running hidden divides and scars from the pandemic that threaten to bring conflict between old and young in the years ahead, the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank said thetimes.co.uk/article/covids…
“The divisions that are becoming apparent across the continent could create a new political age in Europe as they burst into view,” said Ivan Krastev, one of the report’s authors. 
The “most glaring” division is between young and old, with most people under 30 seeing themselves as “major victims” of the crisis.
Almost two thirds, 64 per cent, of people over 60 say they have experienced no personal repercussions from Covid.
A majority of Europeans over 60 blame individual behaviour for spreading the virus, but 49 per cent of people under 30 accuse “institutions and governments” of blighting their lives.
Jennie Bristow, a sociologist and author, found that “lockdowns have a disproportionately negative impact on the young, depriving them of education, independence and freedom in their formative years”.
Read the full story: thetimes.co.uk/article/covids…
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