'Ready for it?' Brussels asks Taylor Swift to mobilise young voters ahead of EU elections

Look what they made her do: Brussels has asked American star Taylor Swift to mobilise young voters ahead of the elections to the European Parliament.

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00:42 Taylor Swift, last September, she

00:47 made a social media call to young Americans

00:51 to register to vote.

00:53 The day after her post, 35,000 young Americans

00:59 had registered to vote.

01:01 Now, Taylor Swift will be in Europe in May.

01:05 9th of May, Europe Day, she will be in Paris for a concert.

01:10 So I would very much hope that she does

01:14 the same for young Europeans.

01:16 And I very much hope that someone from her media team

01:19 follows this press conference and relay our request to her.

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01:30 No one can mobilize youth better than young people.

01:49 That's how it works.

01:50 It's young people who can mobilize young people

01:53 to participate, more, I think, than commissioners

01:56 from the press room.

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