Friends Of Europe Podcasts

Friends of Europe’s debate on ‘what youth really want’, explored the youth-driven analysis of shared challenges and opportunities faced by young people in the Euro-Mediterranean region, identifying cross border commonalities and differences, discussing action-oriented proposals to develop more positive policy narratives. The event was held on the 23 May as a part of the Young Mediterranean Voices & EYL40 Young Leaders event. Speakers included Elisabeth Guigou (President of the Anna Lindh Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue); Jaafar Abdul Karim (Presenter of Shabab Talk at the Deutsche Welle TV and winner of the Mediterranean Journalist Awards); Bjorn Ihler (Founder of Khalifa-Ihler Institute and Kofi Annan Extremely Together Young Leader); Esmat Elsayed (Young Mediterranean Voices (YMV) and delegate to the Africa-EU Summit); and Fadi Quran (Senior Campaigner at Avaaz and MENA Young Leader (EYL40)). The debate was moderated by Shada Islam, Director of Europe and Geopolitics at Friends of Europe.