The Guardian view on Europe’s protests: the social contract has broken – and young people want solutions | Editorial

An electoral supercycle over the next year may redefine the continent’s future. But what’s happening on the streets is shaping it, too France sneezed, and Europe has again caught the cold. The wave of unrest which began with teenagers at a high school soon drew in hundreds of thousands of people nationwide and then spread across the continent . Protests have filled the streets in Lisbon and Madrid, and have ignited into violence in Milan , Brussels and Tirana as well as in French cities.