Another change on sight

One of the recent ideas or projects of the Spanish Government is to change the law of universities. For what I heard on the news, the idea is as follows: they want to reduce the careers to three years (I honestly don’t know if for some careers like Medicine it is feasible or not) and afterwards study a Master for two years.

And why these changes? People in charge say that we must apply this new law because this is the way it works in Europe. I honestly don’t know if it is true but all those changes that can benefit our future generations I think are welcomed. In this sense, I must say that if it helps to have a better education, we should go for it.

On the other hand, we also have to see how much money this law will cost to families. A master costs between 4,000-8,000 euros and if you have to pay it during two years it means a lot of money. Maybe a lot of families will not be able to afford it either.

However, and as usual, all Universities except a few (only three I believe) are against this law. Actually, the students have announced that they will go on strike the 26^th and 27^th of February.

I think the law will go ahead even the protests or all the opinions against it. However, I understand that it is time that politicians start thinking what’s best for the people and not for their own interests. In past years, we have changed our educational system many times.

I understand that after Franco’s dictatorship we had to change –I keep thinking that my parents generation have great culture and knowledge- but it is not normal that my sister and I didn’t have the same system or that in  past years younger people have gone under changes depending on who is in the government.

In the past fewdays, Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez have reached an agreement to sign a law against Islamic terrorism. I don’t really like any of them, but I think it is something good because there are topics regarded of national interest need the agreement of all politicians of the main parties. Medical coverage, education, defense… are topics that require the understanding between our leaders and those who are in the opposition as we must aim to enjoy the best possible system. Politicians should not work for them; they must work for the people they represent, for everybody and they should try to avoid so many changes depending on who is leading the country. There are a few things that are non-negotiable.   

European elections

This Sunday we celebrate the European elections. The pools say that most of European citizens don’t care much about them –more than 60% say they won’t vote-. I imagine that Europe is still far away from us, especially, when we have to fix a lot of things in our own countries.

However, the specialists say that the decisions they make in the European Parliament are more important than we think. Decisions taken in Brussels affect us directly even though we don’t think about it normally.

Despite this argument, a lot of people think that the European Parliament doesn’t have any sense. The amount of politicians that are there and the money it costs us are some topics people repeat and these is a bad publicity for them.

I think I didn’t vote in the past elections, but I am in this one. For me is special because it will be the first time I will go with my wife Jéssica to the pooling station. Now, the only problem is deciding who I am going to vote for.

I don’t like to generalize and I know that all politicians aren’t as bad as people say and think. However, the situation of our country and all the scandals we have found out about them in the past years don’t help. It is not fair to say that all of them are bad, thieves and that they should disappear. I am sure there are a lot of them that spend a lot of hours working, trying to help their neighbours, with the purpose of building a better society.

In the other hand I understand that people don’t believe in them as they used to. I think politicians have lost their prestige through their own fault and now they have to try to fix it. Despite this, it looks as every day they try to do their job even worse.

I have a lot of doubts for this Sunday. I think politicians should put their feet on the ground and see which the real problems of society are. There are a lot of families that don’t have jobs, food and that live in poor conditions. They say the crisis is over but nobody sees any improvement. As I said, I know not all the politicians are bad, but they have to work hard to change the way people think.

Now it is a moment for leaders, for people who have to stand out and not only say nice words; we need somebody that convinces people with words and work, specially. I am sure these elections will not change anything, but politicians should think about it and try to do their best. Society is getting fed up with them and they need to start believing in politicians again.