Economy, migration, climate change: Voters' main concerns ahead of elections

Euronews correspondents spoke to European citizens in Brussels about what their main concerns are ahead of the EU vote.

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00:00Citizens go to the polls during the European elections with an expectation for change,

00:06for improvement.

00:08According to Boyd Wagner, chief analyst of the Renews Poll Center, data shows that the

00:12main concerns for Europeans are the economy and security issues.

00:17They are expecting more stability from the upcoming parliament.

00:25Number one would be the economy, would be things like purchasing power and the inflation.

00:30I think secondly, the one that is very common across every country is migration, remains

00:38to be an important issue.

00:40The economy, migration and climate policies are some of the top concerns that people in

00:44Brussels have as the EU elections loom.

00:55If you want to do anything about the climate, you have to pay, so economically it's important.

01:25Well economic stability, all our economies are so interlinked in the globalist world

01:30and we have local problems as well in Ireland, you know, it continues to be a massive housing

01:35crisis, cost of living crisis and, you know, I don't think politicians are taking seriously

01:42these issues, especially European parliament politicians.

01:46At the political level, the focus is on competitiveness, while for European citizens it's about their

01:51daily lives and for some, it's two sides of the same coin.

01:56On the other hand, the issues of defense also appears to be a key priority for Brussels.

02:03If politicians worry about competitiveness, this is about the budgets of the states and

02:07the budget of the states is then of course necessarily also translates into the money

02:12of the people, so there is of course a strong connection.

02:15Now when it comes to defense, then we see that people also worry about that, but that

02:20very much depends on where they live.

02:23Water expectations vary across member states, but they all unite in the hope for better

02:28management of both present and the future.