During her official visit to Finland, Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with sutdents at Europa Experience in Library Oodi, in Helisinki.

METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

EU - Finland (T)

Finland

Helsinki

president's agenda

Official visit of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Finland: Roberta METSOLA meets with students at Europa Experience, Library Oodi

Arrival of Roberta METSOLA, EP President at Library Oodi

Arrival of Roberta METSOLA, EP President at the Europa Experience inside the Library Oodi, 3 shots 

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, We have new a Eurobarometer survey that comes out tomorrow. Rising support for the EU is skyrocketing everywhere. But there's still a lot of issues with people not voting. In France, young people did not vote on Sunday. They did not vote. Now, of course, you can say, of course, they're involved because they're comfortable with it. But if you don't vote, someone else will take the decision for you. And that's not what you want. You want to be able to, first of all, choose who you elect. And then once you elect them you go oi, you know, you ran on this platform. You have done nothing of this. I expect you to be accountable to your voters and not just turn out every five years, every time there's an election. So that's what I'm trying to do by going from one country to another.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Four Member States for the first time will have 16 as voting age mine is one, Austrians another. I can't remember the other two, so that's already a difference to 2019. So for the first time you have quite a few million young voters to vote, but we need them to vote.