 Nice to all and thank you so much for inviting us today. So I'm Adelaide from Youth of Climate Belgium. I'm also here with Tieta from Youth of Climate Belgium. And first to explain a bit what is youth climates and what our goals are. Youth of climate is basically a movement that puts pressure on governments and political leaders. And to do so, we take different kind of actions. We march, for example, we have striked for 20 Thursdays in a row from January 2019 to May 2019. So during those 20 Thursdays, we decided to not go to school and actually take the train to the streets of Brussels. And first we were 3,000, then we were 12,000 and then 35,000. And we were just thousands in the streets of Brussels. And then we also figured out that it wasn't on me in Belgium that this was happening, but also in many of the countries first in Europe and that it spread all over the world. So it's now a global movement and Youth of Climate is kind of the Belgian movement of the youth movement. We have done also other actions like occupation. We have occupied the federal parliament in Belgium during three days to put pressure on the climate load that was supposed to pass but did not pass. But the pressure was there. And then we put pressure also on the European parliament. So we occupied the European parliament also for a few days with FFF Europe. And then we also went to festivals. Last summer we went to festivals just on trying to get in the biggest stage to bring this dance for climate idea to again bring this idea of bringing climate everywhere, this topic that did not be forgotten and should be talked about everywhere, whether it's in parliaments, festivals, the streets in between France. And during this whole process of organizing different actions, we really created coalitions in between experts. We worked with more than 100 experts on 27 recommendations that could be directly implemented in the Belgian law. So this is now a thing that can, it is now a document that can be directly implemented. And we have given it to each leader of the different political parties in Belgium. We have also created coalitions in between the movements from the EU side, also on a world international side with technology today. It's really easy to be connected with youth from all over the world. And we also created coalitions with associations. In Belgium, we work together with associations that have sometimes the same goals as us. And most importantly, I think is also creating coalitions in the indigenous people from the Amazon forest because we had the chance to send three people inside the Amazon forest last from October 2019 to December 2020. And that's where this strong coalition started and now we are really working with them. The goals of USO climate is mainly to spread awareness about climate change and put pressure again on the federal and European level, whether it's putting pressure for climate low to pass or now today really putting pressure for this green deal that is put forward, for it to not be like, for it to be a real change, a real way to achieve the targets that we have. And then I'll let Jada talk about the rest. Hi, everyone, I'm Jada, also from Youth for Climate. I'm going to talk a little bit how the COVID-19 crisis has affected young people and activists. First of all, you need to know that behind every activist is a normal young person that experiences real life situations like school. Right now, a lot of us have exams, but we managed to stay active during these difficult times. But it was also important to give corona the time needed because it is a health crisis and every crisis should be treated as one. So we did also movement building with our own organization, Youth for Climate Belgium, but also on the international aspect as Fridays for Future, such as we organized a meeting to put pressure on Frans Timmermans for a change in European agriculture through an online meeting. We also had our weekly webinars to stay in touch with experts and also for people to spread awareness as that is our main goal also from Youth for Climate. We also had our digital strikes through Zoom with our hashtag climate strike online. And we had also our solidarity actions for the nurses in front of the hospital and we also supported the Black Lives Matter movement because there is no climate justice without social justice. So yes, I will give the floor back to Adelaide. So now speaking a bit about how this corona crisis kind of hit a bit different movements, or like we are really in contact with a lot of people now all around the world. So we can see how people would react differently maybe to this crisis that hit much the whole world. What we have noticed is that, yes, it was a change for everyone. We had to adapt, but it was not the same adaptation for everybody. It means that even in Europe, depending on our private situations, it would really depend if the adaptation of staying home would be easy or not. But on an international level, it was really clear that it was not at all the same adaptation. We are in contact, I told you, with people from the Amazon forest, indigenous people, indigenous communities. And hearing their messages, hearing from them was really, really hard for us because not only are they facing the fact that we are taking their lands, we are destroying their environments, we are destroying pretty much everything they have. They are not even seen from their government as human beings. Their human rights are respected at all. And that's just on a general base. But adding to that, they hit by the corona crisis. And so it's, of course, an addition to everything that they are already going through. And so that is really hard to see that they have to face a virus while they were already facing disease, already facing the fact that they had to fight for their lands. And worse than that, the government, the Brazilian government is actually using this momentum of corona to be able to cut more of the Amazon forest. So the environmental minister himself in Brazil said, this is the moment to release a bit our climate, our lows on protecting areas in the Amazon forest because the media are not watching, because the media are focusing only on corona. And so this really shows that if we do not put media pressure, if we don't put any pressure on the Brazilian government, on the way we treat the Amazon forest, it will just go wrong. Because the people living inside the Amazon forest aren't just not respected. Their rights are not respected. And corona did not help them out. They are facing their virus. But they are also facing a government in Brazil that are not helping them with that virus, but also not helping them with their basic situation, basic needs. No, their lands are being grabbed. So this was, of course, really hard to hear for us. And it's at that moment that we realized the adaptation of this crisis is not the same if you live in Europe or somewhere else, or depending on your situation, personal situation. So it's important, I think, for us Europeans to also be reminded of this situation in Brazil and in the Amazon forest, because we have an impact on this. The decisions that are being taken here in Europe have an impact on what's happening in the Amazon forest today. And so we have a part of responsibility here. And we have to make sure we do everything in our power for to not emphasize what's going on in the Amazon forest and to be able to protect indigenous communities. OK, many thanks. And as I was informed, there was a technical issue. So I will say again for people who could not understand it, this is welcome to the 10th edition of the Greenpost Talks of the Green European Foundation. We are talking today about the impact of the crisis on young people. And we already had an introduction from two representatives of Youth for Climate Belgium. And I now am happy to give the floor to Michele Picci Nino, who's a board member of the European Youth Forum. Michele, maybe first you can introduce us to your organization, what are its activities, its goal, and then elaborate on how your organization, your members experience the crisis. Hi. Sorry, I started speaking while I was still using it. So first of all, thank you for the invitation and having me at this event. The European Youth Forum is a forum which represents young people and youth organizations all over Europe. We have over 100 youth organizations which are divided between national youth councils of countries of all over Europe, not just the EU, but all over Europe, and international youth NGOs which also work within Europe and beyond. Our activities, we represent young people with the European institutions. So we work a lot with the EU, the Council of Europe, and also the UN on European levels. And we try and, of course, then push forward youth issues when it comes to youth rights, participation, and also sustainability and other stuff. And of course, the COVID situation had a lot of impact on us, our membership, and young people in general. More than, of course, COVID, I think, had a three-fold effect. Of course, it was, first of all, the health situation which people had to deal with. And then there was also the financial situation which I think everyone is aware of. But there was also a governance situation where in some countries democracy was also putting quarantine on just people because of coronavirus. And here I will speak about a bit more on what we have been doing, also our proposals, et cetera, for now that we're going hopefully out of the health crisis. Let's put it this way, of corona. So of course, already in March, we started discussing the whole COVID situation internally within the board. And we discussed and we decided to have a blueprint of what should be the proposals for a post-coronavirus world. Of course, in the beginning of April also, there was already, we were already discussing and issued a statement on the situation in some countries, for example, in Hungary, where there was, we felt that the bill on the protection against coronavirus, in fact, had that consequence, for example, on human rights and the rule of law for young people within Hungary and in other countries where such a law gave unlimited power to the prime minister to provide decree and to the generalist, for example, with five years imprisonment that they had reported anything which was deemed to be fake news. So, and we hope, of course, that now the countries are ending the health crisis, at least in their opinion, there would also be the restoration now of everything all the freedoms were guaranteed before the pandemic started to develop. Our first reaction with the pandemic as a whole came on in April, in the 20th of April when there was a reaction to the European Parliament's coronavirus resolution, where the resolution discussed a lot of things on the idea of the parliament on what should happen, what should be the way forward in your post-corona. And in our reaction, we said that basically, that we hope that there was, that we agree that there was a need of a recovery plan, that, however, we stress that the importance that such proposal does not come short, MFF proposals, the multi-annual financial framework proposals for essential sectorial programs. So, for example, that Erasmus Plus would not be affected negatively because of such recovery plan. Unfortunately, in certain areas, such as Erasmus, the pandemic was also used as an excuse to not cut funding from the original proposal. And therefore, maybe young people are being also affected negatively in that aspect of the corona. Of course, it was, we asserted that the recovery of the crisis was an opportunity for systemic change. In the case of the our economy, where the importance was to place equality and sustainability over profit and exploitation. The current economic system makes too much importance to profit and exploitation. So, in the exploits, both the humans and the world, and there is the importance to have more equality and sustainability. So, the ILO calculated that young people will be disproportionately affected by the crisis, and especially in the labor market. And in fact, Commissioner Schmidt himself said, and here I quote that about young people, this may be less affected by the coronavirus itself, but our youth are the most at risk from social economic consequences. And that we know that unfortunately, when there is a decree in the labor demand, young people are normally the first to be laid off. So, young people are disproportionately affected economically and the most hard hit when it comes to economic measures. And unfortunately, we do know that some countries still have discriminatory measures which prevent young people, for example, from accessing social protection measures, unemployment benefits and minimum income. So, these are stuff which for sure definitely affected young people much worse during the pandemic. And we said that this needs to change to avoid another generation which has been left behind, specifically because of the coronavirus situation. On the topic of intergenerational work, on the occasion of the EU day of solidarity between generations, we also issued a joint statement with age, which is the platform Europe, which is the voice of older persons within the EU level. And we emphasize the need for intergenerational cooperation to build a post-pandemic world, which is designed for everyone and the planet. So, focusing on the humans and the planet at the center of any type of recovery moving forward. And we focused on like five points that we cannot delay reflection process and not bear the commission on demographic changes and aging. This cannot be delayed anymore. Implementing all provisions of the European for social rights. So, COVID proved how crucial it is to safeguard and strengthen social Europe just based on solidarity. The importance of building synergies between the European and the EU economic post COVID-19 recovery plan and the European Green Deal. Of course, it is important that such a recovery does not go against our environmental targets. We have one planet we need to make sure that it's safeguarded. Of course, the adoption of an ambitious EU budget 2021-27, which needs to make sure that there's a comprehensive support for our economic social protection system and collective effort again to tackle climate change and leading a global discussion on how to mobilize all generations to save both humankind from the pandemic and our planet from climate change because they are both impacted negatively what is going on around us. And the important that everyone on earth has an impact on this and works together to make sure that we tackle fundamental how societies are organized and indirect. Now today, we also issued a blueprint on how we feel that post COVID-19 where it needs to be. And we had three sections in this blueprint which was first of all social and economic inclusion. The second was human rights, civic space and participation. And the third being beyond recovery, sustainable alternatives to build back better. So basically on how to build better that was on a sustainable way. And in this blueprint, which is like 15 pages long, so I will not go into detail but I will give some examples from it. We focused on these three areas but also when every single area of them we gave three different types of responses. So emergency response. Now what we need to be now because of people are facing an emergency and medium term recovery but also very fundamentally, the longterm change. We need to change. Cannot just go back to what was normal. In February it wasn't working. So basically, first of all, let's respond in an emergency situation now. Secondly, let's recover because we need to recover and people still need to make sure that they have food on the table, et cetera. But thirdly, let's make sure that there is a longterm change. Both when it comes to social and economic inclusion. So for example, to give just an example, of course now on social economic inclusion, we need to make sure that there is short term measures, economic support, deferment of mortgages, a chance route on medium term it would be to heal, had the lessons from 2008. Make sure not to commit the same mistakes. Do not relax the labor legislation like put it into the end date to stimulate high employment. We need to make sure to focus on quality jobs and social rights at the center of everything we do. And of course, when it comes to longterm change, we need to tackle precarious employment and true social protection for everyone, irrelevant of their age and no discrimination whatsoever. Some examples also when it comes to human rights and participation in the case of an emergency response of what to do now, make sure that young people and youth organizations are involved in designing emergency response. So nothing about us without us. It is not possible to have stuff to combat challenges for young people without young people actually being at the table. Once I heard the example, if you're having dinner, if you're not around the table, you're on the menu. So we need to make sure that young people are actually around the table shaping their emergency response themselves. When it comes to, for example, medium response when it comes to human rights, make sure that the recovery has to be built on a rights-based approach focusing on having everyone access their fundamental human rights. And as a long-term change, we need to focus on making sure it remains to meet issues. So we need to make sure that the perspective of young people is taken into account in everything. So if it's health, education, housing, employment, not just the youth issues, which people also always associate with youth. And there is tackle barriers for young people to make sure that there are possibly accessing such rights. And fundamentally also, sustainable alternatives to building back better. So the third section, where we need to make sure that to first of all, put the most vulnerable and affected first, we need to help them first because they're the most at risk. As a medium-term recovery, we need to commit to sustainable development, making sure that EU and national resources are not used to fund economic activity, not in line with the SDGs or the Paris Agreement or the North harm principle, which is trying within the European Green Deal. And also when, for example, comes to the long-term change on sustainability, we need to make sure to invest in new economy by supporting businesses that with sustainability at their core. So make sure that sustainability is a condition for actual stimulus and health and adopting alternative measures of progress. So how we measure progress. At the moment, we only measure progress based on the GDP, which only calculates economic measures and we need to change that and make sure to also start measuring a real well-being of humans and the planet as that is the real progress which we can calculate and not just the money. Okay, could you wrap up your first contribution? Sure, so that basically in a very short introduction, our also blueprint for the economic recovery to make sure that no young person is left behind when it comes to the recovery, the COVID recovery. Okay, thank you very much. And now it's time to move to our last speaker for the ASGEI GAGA, as I said, she's Secretary General of the Federation of Young European Greens. And also for the question, how do you assess the impact of the crisis so far and also what in the future, what kind of impact the crisis will have on young people and also how do you see until now the political response? We know there's a European recovery package which has this nice name, next generation EU, but does it make direct reference to young people? So ASGEI, I give you the floor. Thank you very much. I hope you're all hearing me because I was also having some technical issues. If I don't see any confused faces, I assume you're everyone is hearing me, great. So yeah, in this time that is allocated to me, I will try to bring the green perspective to the corona crisis because I think it's very interesting to look how the COVID-19 started and then how it ended up in this full blown corona crisis that we're seeing right now because very simply, when we look at the start of the COVID-19, it was this COVID-19 virus is a result of the fundamentally broken relation between humans and nature. But if you look at the corona crisis right now, it is the years of destructive globalization, exploitation and the neoliberal economy together with the COVID-19 virus that ended up us in this today's full blown crisis. I assume many people are aware of David Grabber's bullshit jobs theory. We never had the grounds to test this theory until the corona crisis hit and we all went into lockdown. But this was an interesting test for all of us because what we saw when we went into the lockdowns is that no offense, but a business consultant, let's say, who would be valuable in normal times is completely useless in the face of the global pandemic. Instead, we relied on the work of caregivers, nurses, supermarkets, employees, teachers, at least we started appreciating the work of teachers, caretakers, et cetera. So these jobs that are undervalued are the most valuable work jobs during the crisis. And if you look at the statistics of these job lines, these people are poor, they are women, they are black and people of color, they're migrants, they're underpaid, they are overworked and they have no security because these jobs are not valuable in economic terms as they are valuable to us, for our society. So I think in this pandemic, we asked, a lot of people asked, what is the value of my life? And the answer given to us by most of the time was nothing. We saw this at times very literally when a black person was killed on the street by a white police officer, merely on the base of the color of his skin or more figuratively when a lot of people were asked to go to work to save the economy. So I don't want to undermine the Black Lives Matter protests that's right now happening in the US or the police violence, but I think there is a good correlation between why the protests are happening right now in its form because this is not the first time a white police officer killed a black man. This is not the first time that it was filmed. This is not even the first time that a black man said, I can't breathe on radio while he was murdered by a white police officer because it's, now we see that it's black people have been denied a good life. And I will quote my rapper here. And yes, we are going there because one of my favorite rappers, killer Mike, says that, poor white people have been denied, women have been denied, gays and lesbians, transgender people have been denied, immigrants shouldn't have been denied. Everybody outside of that 1% has been denied and young people too have been denied. Young people were hardest hit in the 2008 financial crisis. This crisis in 2008 has not only led to a very high youth unemployment rate, especially in southern and Eastern Europe, but also a stance among political decision makers that any job is better than none. That left us with unpaid internships, big work, zero hour contracts. And the current generation of young people we are worse than our predecessors. And right now, when we are living this, we are we living this corona crisis, we are facing the biggest financial crisis is the Great Depression. If you look at the statistics, we see that I only have the American and UK statistics with me, but 7.7 million younger than 30 in America is now unemployed. And in the UK, 1 million younger than 25 is unemployed. And why the youth is hardest hit? Because yes, Michael was also referring to this because they are the first ones to let go in a crisis. They seem to be easier to lay off in these times. But also, we already did not have stable jobs. We were already working in retail, we were already working in bars and restaurants. And these sectors were the hardest hit in corona crisis. So now let's, if you focus on Europe and what Europe is going to do about it. So the president of the commission or stuff on the lion announced the next generation EU plan. And this week we will see how the council will react to it in Federation of Young European Greens. We welcomed it with criticism, of course. But I want to quote something that Ursula von der Leyen herself said, and I'm quoting it word by word. She said, this recovery pack is a lot of money. The next generation will have to pay back. So us, basically the next generation EU is asked to take out a huge loan and we are not even given a chance to speak what the money should be spent on. So I don't want to go to the metaphor of if you're not around the table, you're on the menu, Michael said it, but this is more or less that. So if we are taking out this loan, then we should have a say on where this money is going to be spent on. For the young people, I can say firstly, we are not paying for this recovery, rich people should pay for this recovery. We already don't have jobs, we already don't have any security, we don't have homes, we saw a lot of rent strikes happening across Europe. And how come we are still asked to pay for this recovery pack? Rich people should pay for this, billionaires should pay for this. So the European Union should start with texting digital giants and stopping tax evisions. But this is the first response from us. And secondly, we will not allow any more neoliberal economy policies and austerity measures. We are not going to work more hours to stimulate the economy. We don't want any job is better than none. We want a good life, we want to work four days, work weeks and we want a universal basic income. And finally, what we're seeing right now is just a trailer, what is to come with the climate crisis. I think this crisis showed us once again, how willing the political decision makers are to postpone taking action in the pace of the crisis to save the markets and how easily they trade a good life for profit. So this also gives us a glimpse of what their action or inaction will be and what it's already is in when it comes to fighting climate crisis. So this recovery plan is said to be green, but if you look at the details, the national recovery plans are not monitored, they are not climate proof. The rules to judge a plan is green or not are very general and very vague and the state aid is completely unmonitored. For a truly prosperous next generation EU, we have to make sure that not a single Euro cent is spent on fossil fuels. So what do we do? Like when I'm ending, I want to end with this a more hopeful note. And it's, I don't know who is following the British politics, but the 32 year old football player actually wrote an open letter and he convinced the UK government to continue giving food or continue the school lunch programs in summer because this was also one of the things that we as young people face when corona crisis hit and the schools were closed, a lot of students who were staying at the dorms, the universities and getting the university dinner lunch packages who were no longer able to afford it. And this is in one of the richest countries of the world, children are facing poverty and a 20 year old football player has a better vision of how to run a country than the prime minister of the country because he understands what this is and he can feel empathy. So young people should run for the positions and be active in politics so that we can make actually next generation EU proof plans for our future. So this is the long-term solution for this crisis. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Many thanks also for your considerations on the European Green Deal and on the recovery package. Maybe this can also be a question for the members of Youth for Climate Belgium, Adelaide and Yada. How do you perceive the plans at the European Union? We already have the Green Deal, we have the recovery package. Do you think they are strong enough to really have the translation of the climate policy we need? I think before the climate crisis, sorry, the corona crisis arrived, we were actually beginning of March in front of the council with 50 youth from different, from 20 70 EU countries to demand for the climate law to have a stronger ambition because negotiating for 2050 targets still today is too slow, negotiating between a 40 to 55% reduction is way too little. So that was our call. And then of course the corona crisis arrived so we give the space to corona that it needed because we need to treat each crisis as a crisis. So, but now the question really is, there is a first step that the European level did. There is this Green Deal, it is still not perfect but it's a first step towards the right direction, towards the zero carbon society. Now the question is, are we gonna use this tool to do the transition now, to use the turn we are in today? Our society, we have slowed down, sorry, we have slowed down our economy, we have slowed down everything, so we are really a turn in society. If we don't use that turn right now, we will probably never reach our goals, our climate goals, never reach the Paris agreement. And so the question now is today, during the recovery plan, is it really gonna be used? Are we gonna use the Green Deal? Are we gonna take the transition now? Are we gonna put the budget that we need to be? We revalue the jobs that really need value that we don't give a huge amount of budget to companies that we will have to close anyways in a few years if we want to be able to do the transition but do we put the money in the transition? So if we give a big amount of budget to a company, now we say that first there are clear conditions and that those conditions make sure that the company itself goes through a transition and that the money goes for the workers and not for fossil fuels. So there is really, it's really hard to make sure they are conditions and those budget that are put forward. And so it's clearly now that we have to, it's gonna be decided now during those decisions. We don't wanna go back to an old normal. The old normal was a climate crisis, was a society and a system that was based on injustice. The old normal was us thousands of views in the streets. So we don't wanna go back to that old normal, going back to normal is actually not that ideal. So we wanna build this new normal and we really hope Europe is gonna take a lead on that to make sure that this new normal really happens where we make inequalities are at the lowest, that we make sure that the jobs that need to be, that are essential, are valued and that we switch all the companies that we have to make sure they are all going towards a zero CO2 emission company. So we just think that's for the moment, it's clearly now that we take the turn or we don't. But maybe you wanna add something, Jada. Well, yeah, please Jada, please add to that. Yeah, no, I think, of course, Corona is a health crisis, but it cannot be seen as an excuse for inadequate climate policies. So we need to keep a momentum of climate awareness going and put as much pressure as we possibly can because this climate dialogue cannot stop here because the consequences just keep going and it's getting worse and worse if we don't do something. So yeah. Maybe one additional question. Interesting that you said, Adelaide, that we don't want to go back to a normal, which includes also young people going on the streets a lot. So how do you envision the coming weeks, maybe months, to put pressure on the political level, whether it's at the national level or the European level? Clearly we have to be very creative because we still want to respect the Corona rules. It does not make sense today to call for a massive mobilization of thousands of youths in the streets. It would just not be intelligent and that's not in our minds, but we still want to be present. We still want our voices to be heard on that level and for that we have to be creative. We are coming with now actions that will be more physical than during the Corona lockdown. We were only able to do something that was through social media, which is quite hard because I believe that you always, you usually touch the same people. So if you want to be bigger, you have to be maybe more physical and try to also get always really focused on Corona. And like I told you with the example of the Amazon forest and the government saying the press is focusing on Corona so we can move on those that wouldn't be very climates friendly. Well, that doesn't make sense. So we have to make sure that the press will talk again about this climate crisis because we needed to put back at the center of political and public debates. So for that we will do anything for it and probably actions that will just be a few of youth and not massive mobilizations. Are you unmuted? Of course you can do as an action a kind of theater piece and pretending you're sitting in an airplane because then you can sit close together. It's a bit of Belgian inside joke because we have a minister who wants to, yeah, he advised the mayors to prohibit manifestations while he allows people sitting next to each other in airplanes. But maybe, Michele, on this point, what kind of actions do you see that your organization, your members are doing or will do the coming weeks? Because indeed, as being said, I think we are now really in a crucial phase for some decisions. Yes, I think our member, especially our membership is taking a lot of lead when it comes to fighting to change the direction and when it comes especially to making sure that the recovery is built on a green way moving forward. So don't go back to the normal, which was until February. So for example, just to give some examples, a number of our members, for example, started a new organization together with some other youth organizations, which for example is Generation Climate Theory, which is also focusing on making sure that institutions take notice of climate change and make sure to tackle climate issues much more seriously. And from our perspective, as I was saying before, we are proposing always to have change. So when it comes to both the social and diplomatic inclusion, when it comes to human rights and participation, and when it comes to sustainability, where our point is that it's not enough to go back. So of course, it's important to have the emergency situation measures to make sure that people most vulnerable are helped and are not left to lead with stuff alone. But it's also important that in the long term, we are not content with going back to how things were before, but that we make sure that we stop and think and see how that there is actually a long-term change in the direction of how things were going. Our members are on a national level, so the National Youth Councils and the International Youth NGOs more on a European level also are helping to speak to their governments and the institutions to make sure that we push for the systematic change. And we hope that the governments now do not use actually the health and economic situation as an excuse to actually go back on some commitments which were already receiving. So I think now we are literally at a crossroads and we need to make sure that it is not used as an excuse to stop progressing and changing things, but now we need to use the pause which we had when it comes to the economy, a chance to make sure that we rethink and then move forward as I was saying before, to making sure that the economy progresses but progresses in a way that puts at the center how the human, the us as humans and the planet and make sure that everything as a recovery is built around that. Okay, many thanks. We are now receiving the first questions from the people following our webinar and it's the first question for us gay. Said that young people want to work four days instead of five days. And so the question is then, will we get 20% poor or do we keep the salary? And keeping the salary, wouldn't this raise prices with 20% which also makes us 20% poor? Thank you for this question. No, we really don't want to get any poorer than this. So we keep the salaries and we work less. Sorry about this. Okay, also probably greens and together with the Green European Foundation we made a lot of work on universal basic income and where we ask what is the value of life and what is the value that we bring to our societies when we work. And there are quite interesting articles in the Jeff website. I'm also promoting Jeff here in the Green European Journal. For example, there was an idea about paying the universal basic income from the European dividends. So there is the money is there and it is available and either when we work for universal basic income or when we work four days and we give more opportunity for people to take more work and also to change the labor and give more opportunities for people to be employed. Plus when we work four days and we have three days holidays then we will also have the opportunity to work for the causes that are valuable to us like the climate or gardening or taking care of your kids or taking care of the elderly in things that actually create value for our society but not considered economical value. So no, we keep our salaries, we work four days and we get richer by this way basically. I hope that was clear. Okay, thanks. There's another question I think to everybody from the panel, it's about the leadership style so the question is, do you agree that a more autoteriot and leadership style has failed and so we need a new form of globalism built on a kind of leadership focused on compassion led by young people. So maybe who would like to take the floor? If no one else would, I can start. Thanks. I think, especially when the crisis started developing we saw individual leaders also in, let's speak about Europe. So let's speak about Europe even inside EU. We saw individual leaders, individual governments which tried to, which took a very small approach to this. So they looked at a very short-term approach. They looked at a very individualistic approach as in their country. And I think we saw every country do whatever they wanted on their own. So every country forgot that they were connected that they were working together. All the commitments which they were doing to have closer union, et cetera. And everyone started doing their own measures, the combat closing borders on their own, the measures, the restrictions on their own, et cetera. I think as we have seen, this has proved to not work when we work together, the solutions are better. So I think that there was a failure that everyone tried to do their own thing without any coordination whatsoever. And in that sense, for sure, in my opinion, the leadership which was established, which was exhibited there was not good. And I think we need to, as this has, we have seen from the health crisis at least, when we work together, we're gonna have better solutions we can see that from a health perspective, same applies when it comes to economic stuff, same when it comes to the environment. So we need to make sure that we work together and that together we come up with solutions which work for everyone and that no one is left behind with these solutions and to make sure that as a community, we take care of each other. Okay, thanks. Who wants to add to this answer? Please do. I can add. So on this issue, yes, indeed the authoritarian governments are failing. When we look at the US, it's failing. UK is failing, Hungary, Poland. I mean, Turkey where I am from, this is a mess and this cannot go like this. We know what happened when this populist right wing got too loud and we are not going to let this happen again. No, McLean said only a crisis for this is a real change and this change, this time we have to make sure it's the change, it's the progressive change that we want to see and I for one welcome our young overlord. Okay, Adelaide, do you want to react or? Yes, I think a lot has been said and I mean, it's a bit hard for us also. As youth, it's the first time we went through maybe a crisis that was this big where the world had to mobilize to be efficient and to see it was a real test for all our leaders. It was especially a test also for us to see if we can face a crisis like that because actually the climate is a crisis and it is gonna hit us and it is already hitting people around the world. How do we make sure they will also take this seriously and they can handle it maybe better than the corona crisis which is climate is gonna be more on the long term but here it's really possible. So yeah, so I think here what we have learned from the corona crisis was scientists and experts were everywhere on our TV show during the lockdowns and it was they were really put forward and then we were listening to them and if they said we had to put our mask on, the mask on would be put but for climate this is missing making sure that we put the expert at the center of the attention, at the center of all our media attention and then we have also learned that again we revalue jobs. So that's something that we have to learn again for our politicians to make sure that we revalue those jobs that actually have an influence in our society. Yeah, so that's really meaning what I wanted to add. I had a third point that I just forgot but maybe Jada can help me out. Yeah, so I think the corona crisis really let the problems within the system, well, people can see through this crisis the problems what is wrong with the system. For the US it's the healthcare system and for us it is maybe how fast our government reacts through crisis as we all know with the climate crisis but we also can view this guaranteeing the COVID crisis as a wake-up call instead of this big drama. Of course it is drama, people are dying, it is a health crisis. This needs to be solved, end of discussion but you see this as a wake-up call and do better next time, sit around the table, go in dialogue, that's the most important thing and just increase your ambition. And maybe if I can add one last... Of course. Because I just reminded you. I think during the corona crisis we've clearly seen that even though there was lack in Europe of coordination and everybody was quite individual, it is a real problem but it's where we're taken. And those strong measures never ever in our lives before we would have thoughts that this could happen, that this measures would be taken because it brought us to a completely different level and somewhere we never thought we would be. And so I think it's also something that we learn as youth that it is possible to take strong measures facing a crisis. And I really wanna learn from this and I really wanna make sure everybody is reminded that it is possible if the citizens understand why we have to take those measures, that we take them and then that we can new life. And what's amazing about climate is that we don't even have to stay home. It's really about just creating a new normal, a new life. And so I am now inspired also by how we reacted by facing the corona crisis to make sure we will also react facing the climate crisis. Okay, thank you very much for your answer. We are reaching almost the end of the webinar and I want to use the last minutes for maybe a more personal perspective. I think you all, you personally, your family, your friends were hit by the crisis. Things have changed, maybe plans to go abroad for studying, traveling, or canceled. And so from your personal perspective, I would like to inform us how do you see the future and what you think is urgent to give young people a better perspective. So maybe as gay you can start. Thanks. So I am not in the Erasmus age anymore, but maybe I can give a perspective of a migrant because I am a migrant in Belgium. And with the COVID crisis, when everything was shut down, it was very, it is still an ongoing bureaucratic process. And it is, I can feel for a lot of people who are on certain visas and trapped in Europe that are wondering what will happen to them and because they cannot leave you right now. So I was in this situation. So maybe I can reflect on that as a migrant to stay in some place was quite problematic for me during Corona time. So I feel a lot with the people who are having similar problems. And then for a future, I think we know the answers. I think when everyone went into these lockdowns, we understood what is life and what is the value of a life. And at the Greens, we always say that there is more to life than just working. There's more to life that we all deserve a good life regardless who you are. So I think this is something that we will work on. And I see hope there. And I invite everyone to be part of this conversation for a better social, welcoming and feminist European future for us. Okay, thanks. Michael, your personal take on the Corona future. So, personally, Corona, how did Corona affect? So because of my, so I'm from Malta. So I live on a small island off at the edge of Europe. And because of my role in the youth forum, usually that means I have to travel a lot. So basically the option is unfortunately plain because we don't have trains, conduct mail in Europe and their ferry system is not really efficient with Italy. So the difference between before and now personally was of course, I could see a difference of having to stay first of all here and staying at home. And I reflected a lot in the past couple of months because I was staying at home and I'm fortunate to have a house which I live in with my family, which is not that small. And even me, my mom and our dog living in quite comfortably in a house with quite comfortable space, felt the pressure of having to stay in a confined space. And what I was reflecting on is that I was feeling such pressure with staying in such confined space with still having relatively quite an up area. And I was imagining there are people, including young people all over you who are homeless, for example, and they couldn't have a place where to lock down, basically. I locked down at home. So it made me reflect on other people. People who did not have actually a house to lock down in. People who in different areas of the world live in Pavelas, for example, where you do not actually, there's not possible to keep a distancing from each other and stay healthy and they're not gonna chat around. So my hope at least personally is that the experience of living confined in their single spaces makes young people and the population at large reflect on the difficulties faced by other people and how we need to then make sure to fight to change for a more equal world. Okay. Thank you very much, Yarda. For me, how COVID affected me personally, I am a student, so I am busy with my exams right now. And that definitely took a toll on that. But also during COVID, I saw that even though the world is in a pause or however you call it, crises keep happening. For instance, Yemen right now has war, is suffering from famine with a cholera epidemic and COVID-19 on top of that, one Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes. So the world is suffering so many crises for every country, each their own. But so a pause, there is no pause to crises. I would say COVID cleared up a lot of problems as I said before, what is wrong with the system. But I do have hope in what humanity is capable of because we conquered lots of things. For instance, the wars that have happened in the past. So we can definitely, if we unite, we can definitely conquer the corona crisis and the climate change, the climate crisis. So I think, well, I have hope in humanity if we act right now. Okay, thank you very much. So Adelaide, you have the final words. Thank you so much. I don't want to take it too long. I just want to make sure that corona, that we remember that corona did not erase other crises. So it was a rough time, rougher for others, but we want to make sure that we face the other crises that are present, wherever they are, that we stay in solidarity. Solidarity shouldn't be only during COVID-19. It should be every day, making sure that we stand with everyone and with the people that need help. And I really maybe want to remind everyone that, for example, in China, the CO2 emissions were never as high as today. And they were, so they were even lower before the COVID. So COVID did not erase anything. We still have a huge amount of work in front of us. It's possible, but we really got to go for it. We got to chase it, and we still have to put our voices out there to make sure that happens and start acting now. Okay, many thanks for this closing words. But people watching us, if you appreciated this talk, you can make a donation so we can build on further talks. You can find information in the chat. And I also really want to invite you for next week, which will be our last green post corner talk before summer. And we thought it would be a very good topic to discuss then the future of tourism. So I hope to see you all again next week and to the panelists, many thanks for your contribution.