整个欧洲的Z世代抗议者正在就以下问题与各国政府对峙：不平等、腐败和糟糕的发展机遇。他们的运动反映出对政治问责制和可行未来的日益增长的需求。
Gen Z protesters across Europe are confronting governments over inequality, corruption and poor opportunities. Their campaigns reflect growing demands for political accountability and a viable future.
玛雅·古尔代尔（Maya Gourdel）是布鲁塞尔一名19岁的学生，她坐在课桌前，写着针对国家统治者的口号：“如果我们燃烧，你们也跟我们一起燃烧！”这个口号源自2012年的电影《饥饿游戏》，已被全球许多青年运动采纳为象征，反映出驱动欧洲各地由Z世代主导的抗议活动的愤怒、挫败感和变革渴望。从巴黎郊区到贝尔格莱德的广场，成千上万的人走上街头。
Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans against those running her country: “If we burn, you burn with us!”The slogan, taken from the 2012 film ‘The Hunger Games’ that has been adopted as a symbol by many youth movements globally, reflects the anger, frustration and desire for change driving Gen Z-led protests around Europe. From the suburbs of Paris to the squares of Belgrade, thousands have taken to the streets.
诉求多种多样，但往往相互交织——对破旧学校设施的不满、对经济机遇匮乏的感知、生活成本、腐败、住房以及一种未被倾听的感觉。有时这些抗议活动引发了暴力——仅在法国，最近几周就有数千家店铺受损或遭到洗劫，警察则发射了震撼弹和水炮。
The demands are various but often overlapping – frustrations with shabby schooling facilities, perceived lack of economic opportunity, cost of living, corruption, housing and a sense of not being listened to. At times those protests triggered violence – with thousands of shops in France alone being damaged or looted in recent weeks – and police firing stun grenades and water cannons.
本周末，它们也带来了真正的改变——在经历了近两年的抗议腐败和潜滋暗长的威权主义的示威活动后，学生主导的抗议活动最终在选举中推翻了塞尔维亚长期领导人亚历山大·武契奇。
This weekend they also brought real change – student-led protests culminated in the toppling in an election of Serbia’s long-time leader Aleksandar Vucic after nearly two years of demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism.
“醒来后，我们感受到的第一件事无疑是一种如释重负和自由的感觉，”学生抗议者斯塔沙·皮莱蒂奇（Stasa Piletic）说。“就个人而言，我有一种胜利感。我觉得我们终于从抗议走向了责任。”“愤怒的爆发”基娅拉（Chiara）是抗议活动波及的米兰的一名21岁学生，她认为“参与人们自发的运动至关重要，这些运动诞生于一场使集体行动成为可能的愤怒爆发。”她说：“我认为这个统治阶层对我这一代人造成的最大损害，是甚至剥夺了我们想象未来、去梦想的能力。”
"Waking up, the first thing we felt was certainly a sense of relief and freedom," said student protester Stasa Piletic. "Personally, I feel a sense of victory. I feel that we finally moved from protests to responsibility." 'AN EXPLOSION OF RAGE' Chiara, a 21-year-old student in protest-hit Milan, believes “it's vital to take part in people's spontaneous movements born from an explosion of rage that made collective action possible.”"I think the worst damage this ruling class has done to my generation is stealing even the ability to imagine a future, to dream," she said.
她说，意大利学生正面对着学校没有足够的教师和建筑破败的现实。
She said Italian students were confronting a reality of schools without enough teachers and crumbling buildings.
“所有这一切，伴随着一份我们并未获得相应资质的低薪工作的前景，以及住在可能远离我们不想居住的城市的、面积微小且价格过高的房子的前景。”从2024年的孟加拉国和2025年的尼泊尔，到今年的印度，随着大约在1997年至2012年间出生的一代人找到自己的声音，由Z世代领导的抗议活动在全球范围内引起了震荡。现在，欧洲已成为一个焦点。
"And all of this with the prospect of an underpaid job which we didn't qualify for and the prospect of living in a tiny, overpriced house, probably away from our city, which we didn't want to live in." Protests led by Gen Z have caused ructions globally as the generation born roughly between 1997 and 2012 found its voice, from Bangladesh in 2024 and Nepal in 2025, to India this year. Now Europe has become a focal point.
根据欧盟2025年发布的一项调查，物价上涨和生活成本是16岁至30岁人群中40%的人所关切的问题。
Rising prices and the cost of living are a concern for 40 per cent of 16-30-year-olds, according to a European Union survey published in 2025.
在2025年面临贫困或社会排斥风险的欧盟9270万人口中，记录到最高风险的是18岁至24岁的年轻成年人，为26.3%，而记录到最低风险的是65岁或以上的成年人，为18.8%。
Among the 92.7 million people in the EU who faced the risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2025, the highest risk was recorded for young adults aged 18-24 years, at 26.3 per cent, while the lowest was recorded for adults aged 65 years or over, at 18.8 per cent.
年轻人也对承担老一辈人的财务负担保持警惕，老一辈人投票率往往更高。据法国经济形势观察所（OFCE）智库称，法国60岁以上的人口占四分之一，却拥有法国60%的财富。
Younger people are also wary of shouldering the financial burden of an older generation that tends to vote in greater numbers. People over 60 in France make up a quarter of the population but own 60 per cent of France's wealth, according to the OFCE think tank.
随着人口老龄化以及选民抵制提高退休年龄或削减福利，法国养老金迄今为止是最大的公共开支，正处于达到经济产出14%的轨道上。根据OECD 2025年的数据，这仍然低于希腊或意大利，这两个国家在OECD国家中将国民收入的最大比例用于公共养老金，约占GDP的16%。但它远高于澳大利亚、智利、冰岛、爱尔兰或韩国，根据经合组织的数据，这些国家将不到4%的GDP用于公共养老金。
French pensions are by far the biggest public expense, on track to reach 14 per cent of economic output, as the population ages and voters resist raising the retirement age or reducing benefits. That is still less than Greece or Italy, which spend the largest proportion of national income on public pensions among OECD countries, at around 16 per cent of GDP, according to OECD figures in 2025. But it is much more than Australia, Chile, Iceland, Ireland or South Korea, which spent less than 4 per cent of GDP on public pensions, according to the OECD.
“欧洲年轻人是团结的”小 Bilal Narjissi 是巴黎北部郊区的一名17岁高中生，他一直在抗议学校“糟糕”的条件和人员短缺。“以前有老鼠，”他说。他说，去年屋顶坍塌砸向庭院时，学生们被疏散了，尽管无人受伤。
'YOUNG PEOPLE IN EUROPE ARE UNITED' Bilal Narjissi, a 17-year-old high school student in a suburb north of Paris, has been protesting against “deplorable” conditions and staff shortages at his school. "There used to be rats," he said. Students were evacuated last year when a roof collapsed on the courtyard, though no one was hurt, he said.
他说，抗议活动表明“欧洲的年轻人是团结的”，并补充说，“我们在一点上都同意：年轻人被像小孩子一样对待，过头了，而且他们没有被足够倾听。”法国政府10月的一份报告称，2000年至2023年期间，养老金支出占GDP的比例上升了2.5个百分点，而教育支出则下降了0.5个百分点。报告还显示，教育部预算的32%用于养老金，挤占了其他领域的资金。古尔代尔也一直在抗议比利时学校更好的条件。
Protests showed "that young people in Europe are united", he said, adding, "we all agree on one point: that young people are treated like children, far too much, and that they aren't listened to enough." A French government report in October said pension spending had risen by 2.5 percentage points of GDP between 2000 and 2023 while that for education had declined 0.5. It also showed 32 per cent of the education ministry’s budget went towards pensions, crowding out money for other areas. Gourdel, too, has been protesting for better conditions in schools in Belgium.
她说：“我们曾试图被动地去做。没有人听到我们的声音。只有当人们开始焚烧垃圾或诸如此类的事情时，媒体和摄像机才开始关注我们。”
"We tried to do it passively. Nobody heard us. It's only when people started to burn trash or that kind of stuff that the media and cameras started showing us," she said.
抗议活动仍在蔓延，德国计划在本周末举行示威活动，抗议生活成本、不平等、战争和学校状况。
The protests are still spreading, with a demonstration planned in Germany this weekend over cost of living, inequality, war and the state of schools.
动荡也打击了阿尔巴尼亚，由学生主导的针对埃迪·拉马总理政府的示威活动席卷了地拉那并蔓延到其他城市，这些示威活动由对感知到的腐败、缺乏工作和糟糕教育标准的愤怒所点燃。
Unrest has also hit Albania, where student-led demonstrations against Prime Minister Edi Rama's government, fuelled by anger over perceived corruption, a lack of jobs and poor education standards, engulfed Tirana and spread to other cities.
19岁的建筑系学生齐克·库尔蒂（Xyke Kurti）说：“我们的总理花了一百三十天不听我们说话。”
"Our Prime Minister spent 130 days not listening to us," said Xyke Kurti, a 19-year-old architecture student.
她说：“如果你问阿尔巴尼亚的一个学生，‘你把你的未来看作在哪里？’每个人都说‘这个国家之外’，”她认为在国内，即使你有天赋，有“关系”的人也总是会击败你。
"If you ask a student in Albania, 'where do you see your future?' Everyone says 'outside this country'," she said, arguing that at home, even if you have talent, someone with "connections is always going to beat you".
塞尔维亚的学生运动做到了其他欧洲首都的示威者只能梦想的事情。
Serbia’s student movement did what demonstrators in other European capitals can only dream of.
然而，现在迎来的是治理的残酷业务——无论是学生还是他们的候选人都对此没有任何经验。另一位抗议者卢卡·斯托亚科维奇（Luka Stojakovic）对此不屑一顾。“我们已经看到了有政治经验的人把我们带到了哪里。”
Now, though, comes the gritty business of governing -- something neither the students nor their candidates have any experience of. Luka Stojakovic, another protester, brushes that aside. "We have seen where people with political experience have brought us."