Contrary to Western stereotypes about progressive youth, young Europeans are quite polarised and disunited.
![Protesters attend the Global Climate Strike of the movement Fridays for Future, in Hamburg, Germany on November 29, 2019. [File: Reuters/Fabian Bimmer]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2019-11-29T131335Z_1144422664_RC21LD9DF3V0_RTRMADP_3_CLIMATE-CHANGE-STRIKE-GERMANY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Contrary to Western stereotypes about progressive youth, young Europeans are quite polarised and disunited.
![Protesters attend the Global Climate Strike of the movement Fridays for Future, in Hamburg, Germany on November 29, 2019. [File: Reuters/Fabian Bimmer]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2019-11-29T131335Z_1144422664_RC21LD9DF3V0_RTRMADP_3_CLIMATE-CHANGE-STRIKE-GERMANY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
If Annalena Baerbock secures the chancellorship in September, she’ll have an opportunity to make Central Europe greener.
![Annalene Baerbock, co-leader of the German Greens Party, holds up a description of the party's policy program at a livestreamed, digital press conference ahead of Germany's federal elections scheduled for September on March 19, 2021 in Berlin, Germany [Sean Gallup/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1307910900.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)