IN SEARCH OF SOLIDARITY-BASED EUROPEANISATION Miran Lavrič FIVE POINTS ON YOUTH IN THE WESTERN BALKAN SIX COUNTRIES 2019 1 Youth in all WB6 countries are confronted with very ad­verse conditions in the labour market; the situation for youth from the SEE EU countries is by comparison substan­tially more favourable. 2 Informal practices are perceived to be extremely wide­spread and are increasingly tolerated among youth across the region. 3 The emigration potential of youth from the WB6 countries continues to be very high and is much higher in ­comparison to the SEE EU countries. 4 A large majority of youth in the WB6 are in favour of soli­darity-based Europeanisation, but there are also signs of increasing authoritarian tendencies. 5 Interest in politics is very low and has decreased in r­ecent years. Nevertheless, the democratic potential of WB6 youth in terms of voting and civic engagement appears to be considerable – also in comparison to youth from SEE EU countries.