The environment

PROBLEM:

The global warming is now one of the most important problems in the EU, as its effects can cause an increase of the temperatures, which will provoke the thawing of the glaciers. In consequence, the level of the sea will grow more and more every year until causing an overflowing disaster.

Also, one of the consequences it might have is the raise of the pollution, which is caused by the amount of gases that come from the transports, chemical substances and many others.

The results of this pollution could be problems in the human system, having more difficulties when breathing, and contamination of the water, which is one of the reasons why many people with no recourses die nowadays. Besides from this, it will cause other bad effects in the nature and so on.

What can the EU do to eradicate the climate change?

• To start with, the first proposal is to start eradicating the climate change by using more public transports or walking to places instead of driving private cars, motorbikes or any other kind of private transports. To motivate people, from the Parliament they could try to organize one day per month in which all the public transports are free. This way, people will use them more.
• Additionaly, another good idea is to encourage kids and teens from schools to visit the paper industry at least once a year, so they can recognize the consequences of not recycling paper and try to value more the different uses it can have once recycled.
• Recycling batteries is something not many people do, but they should do it, as its results would be better for the environment. The materials used to create them are too contaminating, and to avoid the problems and encourage people to recycle more, in supermarkets or shops where they are sold they could make an exchange, for example: every 10 batteries, two of them are given free.
• These proposals could be good so that people care more about the environment and the global warming, as well as the consequences it is having, like the increase of the temperature, and the climate change.

Social involved: a basic need

PROBLEMS:

-Nowadays, there are a lot of homeless people who live in precarious circumstances in Europe (16,4% of the population).

-There are several inequalities between the Member States.

-Most of the homeless don’t have any place to sleep, hygiene resources, food...

-The poverty can be produced by different causes: migrations, health problems, ageing...

-The prizes of the basic products are expensive around Europe, so are there people who can afford it? How can we resolve it?

MEASURES:

-Guaranteeing a place for everyone or just a place to sleep, take a shower or eat.

-Promote social projects to involucrate young people to help poor people.

-Make equal all the salaries of the European Union to eradicate the inequalities between the Member States. We think it’s really important to ensure an optimal quality of life so that everyone can have the same opportunities.

-Even the governments have to ensure that the social security is working well; sometimes citizens can be helped correctly.

CONCLUSIONS:

In the middle of “the chaos” that we are living, it’s really important to pay attention to the citizens who have serious problems with their daily life and try to improve the society.

PROPOSALS

A COMMON EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Problem:

As the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results reflect, there are huge educational differences between the State Members of the European Union. While some countries have really good results others are under the average. One of the most unevenness subjects is English.

Hypothesis:

Introduce a common educational system which promotes the EU values to give the European students the same opportunities to develop their minds. What we cannot allow is the rise of a European society with lack of knowledge. 

Measures:

-  Promote the interest for the studies among the students by the use of grants and         educational programmes.

-      Unify the educational system between the State Members to eradicate their differences.

-     Teach the same subjects and invest the same hours for each subject in each country.

-     Reduce university fees to let more students study in the European university that they want to.

-     Take a compulsory and common exam for all the students who want to enter at the university.

-     Require the same level for all the teachers and strengthen the figure of this job because they are the ones who prepare the future generations.

Conclusions:

As Spanish and European students we are worried about the current situation we are living. This provokes a feeling of insecurity about how our future is going to be like. Looking at the graphic above, we can see that there are important educational differences between countries. For this reason, we think that our proposal should be studied by the MEPs.