Almost two thirds of young Europeans intend to vote in the 2014 European Parliament election, according to the latest survey of the European Commission on youth participation in democratic life.

The rate is 75 percent or above in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta, and only 55 percent or lower in Cyprus, Greece, Estonia, Czech Republic and Slovenia. The survey also shows that, among those who are not likely to vote, two out of three believe that their votes will not change anything.

The European Parliament has been directly elected every five years since 1979. The election turnout in 2009 only stood at 43 percent of all European voters, putting the EU's democratic legitimacy into huge debates.

There are widespread concerns about the turnout of the upcoming election in May 2014, as more and more Europeans lose faith in the EU system after more than three years of eurozone debt crisis and rising unemployment rate in many member states.

The survey was conducted in April among 13,000 young Europeans aged 15 to 30 from 27 EU member states as well as 500 respondents from Croatia, which is expected to become the 28th member state in July.

Another Commission study shows that nearly 70 percent of youth believe that being part of the EU is part of their citizenship, while there is a growing dissatisfaction among youth with the way politics work in the EU.