Across Europe, young people are protesting over housing, jobs and education while losing faith in politics and democracy, according to a new programme by the European platform ARTE .

The programme, titled "Europe's youthquake," finds that anger and protests are bringing a generation together across the continent. The grievances range from education to housing to jobs, but share one common theme: aspirations for a better future. This aspiration is increasingly coupled with a loss of faith in politics and even in democracy as it stands today. The programme is available in 10 languages through the European media partnership BEAM, which includes outlets such as El País, Gazeta Wyborcza and Le Soir.

In Portugal, the housing movement Casa Para Viver expects a crowd on the streets on Saturday . The group stressed that people must stay on the street. Opinion writer André Barata argues that when a generation cannot be sure of renting a house despite working, it becomes an impossibility of emancipation, not just a rights problem .

In Britain, the Labour government is eyeing welfare cuts to tackle a surge in youth unemployment . Faisa Omar applied for more than 500 jobs in the UK and got nowhere. She likened the effort to "shouting into the void." A 10-week training course tailored to the green energy sector finally landed her a job within a month. Her story is one the Labour government hopes to replicate.

The implicit meritocratic bargain that once provided advancement to new generations is breaking down from India to France, according to The New York Times . The 39th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is drawing attention to Gen Z protest movements worldwide with its opening film White Tiger Column, about a training camp in the jungle of Myanmar .

Protests in Paris are making some worry about total societal collapse, columnist Horace Engdahl wrote in Svenska Dagbladet . Ongoing protests across the continent may have prompted political reactions and fresh promises, but the ARTE programme asks whether they will lead to fundamental change.