IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

This is a countdown for the European elections

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Hosting in England

Thanks to our school, we have travelled to England and Ireland. We have stayed with hostfamilies for one week in each country.

This following photos are outlined in a chronological order:

VOTE

We want to encourage you to participate in the European Elections which are going to take place between the 22nd and the 25th of May!

Inauguration of our project "Around Europe in 270 days"

EU muffins!

We made all these amazing and delicious muffins to celebrate the end of this project. As you can see in the picture they have the Member States flags on the top.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EXPERIENCE POSSIBLE!!!!

Interview to a MEP

We tried to interview some of the Spanish candidates to the European Parliament. Although none of them have answered yet, we want to share the questions we asked them with you.

Excellency Gentleman,

We are students from the school FEDAC-LLEIDA in the city of Lleida, Catalonia, coursing first of Bachillerato. We are writing to you because of our participation in the contest called “Euroscola” which promotes the knowledge and the circulation of the values of the European Union as well as the elections that will take place next May.

It would be a great contribution to our project if you could answer to some questions in order to help us understand the way a MEP thinks and acts.

The questions are attached below. We hope that you kindly answer them. Even though we understand that our petition can be refused, we want to thank you in advanced for your time.

A cordial greeting,
European Students.

• What does the figure of a MEP represents to the society?

• What does your daily routine in the European Parliament consist of?

• Do you believe that the initial essence of the EU remains with the same intensity nowadays?

• Do you think that the corruption supposes a wearing out of the figure of the politician and the institutions of Government?

• The last results of the report PISA indicate that Spanish students fail in resolution of problems with 10 points less than the previous year. Do you believe that there is a possibility of a unification of the European Educational System to assure better results and a better preparation of the European young people?

• Nowadays "The Europe of the regions" is a term which is highly used. The fundamental values of the European Union are based in solidarity between citizens. What does the increasing of independence movements in Catalonia, Scotland or Flanders mean for the stability of the EU?

• What would you say, as a MEP, to the Spanish young people that must travel to the rest of Europe looking for work or opportunities that are difficult to obtain here?

 

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.