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Supporters celebrate at a rally for Emmanuel Macron, outside the Louvre on May 7, 2017 in Paris, France.
Looking more broadly at discontent affecting the continent and the neighboring Middle Eastern region, the executive who has forged a stellar career from crafting marketable stories cautions that it is the inability of European authorities to connect with the European people that has led to such instability within countries dealing with disaffected youths.
“They are attracted by Daesh because they have no jobs…Because they believe that the values which are defended by Daesh are more interesting than the values that they see when there is corruption and a lot of issues in some governments and we need to be clean and to have values and virtues which allow the government to speak up,” he observed.
Asserting that ongoing discrepancies and differences between messages directed at younger generations would just exacerbate tensions within countries, Levy reiterated his warning over a failure by regional leaders to deliver a consistent and inspiring message.
“It is extremely difficult to be credible with the storytelling that will bring the youth back to where we want them to be,” he concluded.
