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Onlookers watch a double-decker bus engulfed in flames on O'Connell Street, Dublin, at night.

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Another uprising?More crime?Less safety?

Is this the Europe you imagined?

What will Europe look like in 20 years?

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DUBLIN, IRELAND · 23 NOVEMBER 2023 — A Dublin Bus burns on O'Connell Street during the riot that broke out in the city centre hours after a knife attack outside a school on Parnell Square. Photo: CanalEnthusiast / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified.

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Protesters in yellow vests stand behind toppled metal construction fencing on a Paris street at dusk.Paris, France

8 December 2018

A barricade of construction fencing near the Opéra on “Acte IV” of the gilets jaunes protests against fuel taxes and the cost of living.

Photo: Olivier Ortelpa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, modified

People in yellow vests cover their faces as tear gas drifts across Place de la République at night.Paris, France

8 December 2018

Tear gas drifts across Place de la République during the same day of gilets jaunes demonstrations.

Photo: Olivier Ortelpa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, modified

A shopfront burns on a London high street at night as riot police and firefighters work nearby.London, England

8 August 2011

The Party Superstore on Lavender Hill, Clapham Junction, burns during the 2011 England riots, which followed the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham.

Photo: Andy Armstrong / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0, modified

Twenty years from now,
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