Erasmus students gather to remember the best years of their lives

A group of Erasmus students gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the student exchange program of the European Union, to analyze the experience that qualify as the best year of their lives. With youth jobless and practically doomed to leave the country to seek work, mobility programs created by universities become more effective, especially where unemployment rates are higher.

Studying or working abroad is already another career. Anyone who has traveled knows. Erasmus students tell their experiences abroad in next edition of the Conference of the European Union, organized by the Society for the Development of Marchena -Sevilla-, Sodemar, in what many are calling it the best year of their lives.


Wito Carmona Vargas, studied economics in Naples two years ago. "Living in a country other than one year gives you experience and open mind and you relate to people around the world" and calls it "a unique opportunity that exists only once in life."


Studying physical education in Athens, the birthplace of the sport and the Olympic Games is not a bad idea. It's what made Francisco Javier Cortés Pazos, several years ago. Francisco is very clear. "Traveling abroad opens your mind, travel abroad, broadens your mind".


A Erasmus is a "unique opportunity presented to you in life to live outside, learning a language, formed you, meet people from around the world," he says. This year, sharing an apartment with two girls, one Polish and one French, have learned to "cook, clean, iron, and live with people all over the world. (...). "It's the best year of my life."

CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN UNION. 18, 19 and 20 September.
Sala Carrera (C / .Carrera, 3) Marchena.Sevilla. 
Tuition Price: 12 € uros. 25th Anniversary of the Erasmus Programme.
Training and mobility. Youth in Motion.
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The victims of the Spanish crisis occupied houses property of banks

"The bank has plenty thousands of empty houses that no one can buy, and we lack the Spanish houses in which to live. Therefore, we call social justice," said the girl Irma Blanco.
She and other women in the community Neighboring Corrala of Utopia, has occupied a building in Seville that was two years without a suitcase. In just five days and were housed 36 families.
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"Our work shows that this problem is not marginal, it affects everyone," explains White, 35, and a Diploma in Social Work from the University Pablo de Olavide of Seville.

In Spain there are more than three million vacant homes and, according to the General Council of Judicial Power, in the first quarter of 2012 there were 46,559 evictions, an average of 517 foreclosures per day.

Access to housing for young people is also complicated by the high unemployment rate with the living, about 50%, and the minimum wage in Spain does not reach the 642 euros (U.S. $ 803).

Foreign media speak of "scandal" by the "cowardly" journalists layoffs

The Financial Times highlights accusing Madrid of interfencia in the media. The chronicle of Miles Johnson published on August 9 says: "Growing criticism of the Government of Spain for political interference in state TV after a series of outputs of high-profile journalists considered critical of the Popular Party in recent months. Several of the leading journalists have been in rough conditions, following a government decision to Mariano Rajoy earlier this year to reverse a law that required to approve appointments to Spanish Broadcasting by two-thirds majority in parliament.

The Guardian speaks of cowardly purge of journalists in Spain posed difficult questions. The article by Miguel Anxo Murado notes that "the dismissal of journalists from the Spanish state broadcaster shows how the government of Mariano Rajoy has lost ground. Spain has always struggled with the impartiality and objectivity. Interestingly, most interviewers are laid off, work that makes sense only when the journalist is on the opposite side.


Le Monde notes that there is a scandal in Spain by the layoffs. The text, dated August 9: "After the resounding rejection of some of the most famous Spanish radio and television, there is growing unease among journalists who fear that the right-wing government is getting into shape for public broadcasting . On Saturday, the new management of the public broadcaster TVE, appointed by the government of Mariano Rajoy, retired as Ana Pastor, star reporter of the morning. It is a "political decision", accuses her in The Country.

Famous for his incisive interviews, Ana Pastor disturbed during the last election a number of senior representatives of the Partido Popular (PP).

City Council canceled the bank account that defrauded an elderly

Arahal City Council canceled today the account that has opened in Cajasol. It will do in order to support Antonia Brenes and other Arahal affected by the preference shares. Today, by order of the Tax Office has taken the 120,000 euros that were entered. According to the councilor in charge, Jonathan Morilla, "is the only measure of pressure can do".
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This measure was announced in the last plenary session which unanimously passed a motion urging the Central Government to the Board of Directors and General Assemblies of the banks and solucionasen the problem.

Municipal officials requested the application of the formulas and procedures to be repaid immediately or invested capital is reached satisfactory agreements with those affected.

The motion also specified that "have committed various irregularities in the marketing of these preference shares, in particular with regard to a complete lack of information on product features especially in regard to their lack of liquidity and its perpetuity because under the guise of a deposit is placed a perpetual product whose investment can not be retrieved at this time of economic crisis, just when necessary, have made it. "

Some councilors do not rule out attending the rally in support of Antonia Brenes called for tomorrow at the doors of the bank branch, Cajasol old, currently in the process of integration into La Caixa. Family members have prepared a basket full of thistles to give them to the branch manager.

On Tuesday 14 at ten o'clock is planned concentration. The family has requested the support of neighbors and friends and local calls through Arahal that adds information to anyone who wants. For the concentration plan to collect enough thorns (thorny wildflower) for attendees to have it delivered to the director of the branch.

After it was front page of the website Meneame.net the history of this neighbor who has one and a half protesting in front of the bank to get your money back, published in Arahal Information, several media outlets nationwide have been interested in the subject. Antonia Brenes will start tomorrow in the program Ana Rosa Quintana, Telecinco and Cuatro cameras come. Today talked with ABC Punto Radio.

Chamizo

Moreover, the Andalusian Ombudsman, José Chamizo, recorded today in the Senior Prosecutor of Andalusia, based in Granada, 300 records of claims and complaints received in relation to preference shares and sought to investigate the facts and responsibilities are purged because in many cases is suspected to have a "crime", according to Europa Press.

In Andalusia it is estimated that about 67,000 people are affected by this issue, with capital assets of "hundreds of millions" of euros, as noted Chamizo, who has stated that in the case of these 300 cases the average investment is between 6,000 and 10,000 euros.


Antonia Brenes, a retired woman from a village-agricultural Arahal Inhabitants of 20.00 near Seville, the capital of Andalucia Takes more than a month at the gates of La Caixa, one of the three largest banks in the country-after feeling cheated. She lost all the Savings of her working life Because of the bank According To His complaint.


She thought she got € 33,000 fixed term, without Knowing It Was But buying preferred shares, a product of High Risk Informed Which was not at Any Time by the bank. In protest, the old Antonia Brenes installed WAS With An umbrella and an inflatable pool at the doors of the bank, Where I spend the plans to Entire summer.

Gala: Estamos gobernados por una pandilla de gilipollas

VERDADES COMO PUÑOS/ Home truths

ANTONIO GALA, WRITER
It seems that this country is ruled by a collection of fools who have come together to play a game, cards, or dominoes, and do not know the rules. And then there's poor Rajoy, who to me always made ​​me laugh, but now I feel bad because he can not do. The truth is that we are ruled by a bunch of assholes.

Llamazares, lide de IU ha argumentado que los actos de desobediencia civil están justificados por la "pobreza severa" que se sufre en España en este momento de crisis.

Llamazares, UI , United LEFT,   leadership has argued that acts of civil disobedience is justified by the "severe poverty" suffered in Spain at this time of crisis.

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“La financiación estatal que recibe la Iglesia Católica, en aplicación de la normativa vigente, no está sometida a la posibilidad de aplicar sobre la misma criterios discrecionales de reducción o ajuste de su cuantía global con objeto de contribuir al cumplimiento de los objetivos de estabilidad presupuestaria”

"State funding received by the Catholic Church, under current legislation, is not subject to the possibility of applying the same criteria for discretionary reduction or adjustment of the overall amount to contribute to meeting the budgetary stability objectives ".

ALEJO SAURA, ACTOR

Actor Alejo Saura  afirma que su serie 'República', "está hecha con dinero público y el motivo por el que no se emite en la TV estatal TVE no es la falta de dinero, porque ya está pagada". "Según tengo entendido, es simplemente que si no la emiten no tienen que reflejarla en su presupuesto como gasto, aunque esté ya pagada y el dinero haya sido gastado", explica.

Actor Alexis Saura says his series 'Republic', which has not yet issued prints and 17 chapters, "is made with public money and the reason is not issued on state TV TVE is not lack of money, because is paid. ""As I have understood, is simply that if the issue does not have to reflect it in their budget as an expense, even if already paid and the money has been spent," he explains.

The protest of a cheated old woman: flowers with thorns for the bank manager

SOURCE: www.arahalinformacion.es

Antonia Brenes, a retired woman from a village Arahal-agricultural inhabitants of 20.00 near Seville, the capital of Andalucia takes more than a month at the gates of La Caixa, one of the three largest banks in the country-after feeling cheated. She lost all the savings of her working life because of the bank according to his complaint.


She thought she got € 33,000 fixed term, but without knowing it was buying preferred shares, a product of high risk which was not informed at any time by the bank. In protest, the old Antonia Brenes was installed with an umbrella and an inflatable pool at the doors of the bank, where he plans to spend the entire summer.

As it thousands of people in Spain have been shortchanged in recent years, and now begin to occur early court decisions in favor of the defrauded, after years of legal struggle.


Antonia is an example of the crisis. Rural working woman barely literate. His whole life has been harsh working conditions in the field during the Franco era and later, with the intention of building a better future for herself and her children, and achieve a fee with which to qualify for a pension that guarantees a certain stability in retirement.

Purposes here now can not meet because of the greed of the bank. These practices have become common in the last decade, most Spanish banks, which now will be helped by the EU with more than 100,000 million.

On Tuesday 14 August the whole town is called a protest to support it. The branch manager has asked you to leave but she is still there.

Symbolically, the old woman delivered each morning to the director of the bank office with a dried flower spikes, which are easily found in the fields near the village. It is the symbol of their protest, so next Tuesday, August 14 all the people in that demonstrations will dry flowers with thorns to the bank manager.

Der Spiegel predice: Un "rescate total" será el final de Rajoy

Der Spiegel ataca al gobierno español y dice que España no es Grecia

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El semanario alemán Der Spiegel ofrece una imagen del presidente Rajoy de incapacidad y baja solvencia, que ha dilapidado en sólo seis meses todo su bagaje político. Insinuó que Rajoy  molesta con sus llamadas desesperadas a sus socios europeos.

Literalmente dice que "la bancarrota política española es un problema más que añadir" a la ya larga lista de los problemas del país. Toma nota de que esto no es lo mejor para la cuarta economía de la zona euro, y que no ofrece la imagen de socio solvente y fiable de la UE.

El semanario critica al presidente español por la falta de una política de comunicación, por haber llegado a tranquilizar a la gente y los mercados con discursos en televisión. Asegura literalmente que "Rajoy es irritante para sus socios europeos con frenéticas llamadas telefónicas".

"Este comportamiento no inspira confianza. Se parece más a una declaración de bancarrota política", dice el articulo firmado por Erich Follath y Helene Zuber . También es crítico con algunos ministros del gobierno por su constante contradicción, en su discurso, dando la imagen de poca unidad y solvencia.

Dice que el gobierno tiene "una incapacidad para coordinar la política económica y para explicar el razonamiento detrás de las acciones tomadas por el gobierno", continúa diciendo que sus mentiras han enfurecido a la población. Indica si hay un rescate total y llegan los temidos hombres de negro, será el final de la carrera política de Rajoy. No indicar si esto significa que la UE impondrá un gobierno de tecnócratas o se trata de un recambio en el interior del propio PP.

También criticó las políticas neoliberales que inflaron la burbuja inmobiliaria en décadas pasadas, y a la Unión Europea por no llevar un control exhaustivo de la ayuda europea concedida al país en las últimas décadas. Según Der Spiegel, los fondos eurpeos no han servido para modernizar el país, sino para construir una infraestructura innecesaria enorme, ordenada por una clase política ineficiente.
Toma nota de que el país no ha logrado ser competitivo y ha vivido bajo un excesivo proteccionismo estatal también, heredado de la época de la dictadura, hace 40 años.

Alaba a la paciencia que están teniendo los españoles a pesar de las dificultades y destaca que sólo a finales de julio hubo un aumento de protestas y huelgas, y prevé que suceden de nuevo en septiembre después del paréntesis de agosto. Indica  las tasas de desempleo elevadas y concluye que si este entorno social de inestabilidad y protestas se incrementa será un problema adicional.

Indica que los españoles no están dispuestos a aceptar recortes en las pensiones y la salud: "Los españoles no están dispuestos a aceptar sin más la idea de que los miembros más débiles de la sociedad deben ser privados de la red de seguridad social, pero están expresando su descontento sin ser agresivo. En España, a diferencia de Grecia, las manifestaciones se han celebrado sin violencia ".

"¿Es este un país estable, confiable socio de la Unión Europea esto a menudo elogiado como la alianza de" ancla sur ", la cuarta mayor economía de la zona euro después de Alemania, Francia e Italia, en una encrucijada?. Se pregunta, interrogándose sobre si podría suceder "un retorno a la los tiempos autoritarios, nacionalistas, 37 años después de la muerte del ex dictador Francisco Franco? "escribe Der Spiegel.

También hace un breve repaso del "historial antieuropeo" del país, desde el siglo XVI, con algunas estructuras de poder ultra-conservadores que tradicionalmente han evitado la innovación y todo el progreso social o económico, con  todos los ilustrados y modernos procedentes de Europa durante siglos vistos como anti españoles.

Señala que "esta actitud llegó a su clímax con las expediciones infelices para garantizar el brutal régimen colonial y de la Inquisición, durante el cual atrocidades inimaginables fueron cometidas en nombre de la iglesia eran también un rechazo deliberado de Europa".

Pero también hay un lado positivo. 

Der Spiegel cree que España no es Grecia, que tiene un alto interés como destino de vacaciones para los alemanes, un paraíso de playas, monumentos, cultura e historia y tiene unas activos multinacionales importante para los inversionistas, citando el Banco Santander como mejor banco en el mundo en el 2012, empresas como Inditex o Telefónica. Sin embargo, también señala que la innovación y la tecnología siempre has sido olvidadas.

Para Der Spiegel, el principal problema son los bancos españoles.

"Las primas de gran interés para los bonos públicos españoles en los mercados internacionales no se basan en fundamentos, como dijo el ministro de Finanzas alemán, Wolfgang Schäuble, el pasado martes durante una reunión en Berlín con su homólogo español. El principal problema de España es la liquidez, en particular con sus bancos ".

Para Der Spiegel, Madrid junto a Roma y Paris tiene previsto desarrollar una nueva estrategia para aplicar presión a la Canciller Merkel, enfrentado el sur y el norte de Europa. Señala la reunión de los tres primeros ministros de los citados paises a inicios de septiembre. El mismo día que Draghi tendrá que explicar a sus colegas en el Consejo del BCE porqué su idea para imprimir dinero se supone que funciona.

Der Spiegel predicts: A "total rescue" will be the end of Rajoy

Der Spiegel and attacks the Spanish government Spain is not Greece

The Spanish are naked, helpless and defenseless against our government according to Der Spiegel

                                 Image: AFP

The German weekly Der Spiegel spoke in a review article on the Spanish reality referring to the image of disability and low solvency about Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, who has squandered in just six months all of its political baggage. He even hinted that Rajoy is a hysterical annoying with their desperate calls to its European partners.

Literally says that "the Spanish political bankruptcy is a problem more to be added" to the already long list of problems the country. Notes that this is not the best for the fourth economy in the euro zone, or offers the image of country solvent and reliable partner of the EU.

The weekly criticizing spanish president and government for the lack of a policy of communication, not to have come to reassure people and markets with speeches on TV and said that "Rajoy is irritating to its European partners with frantic phone calls" .

"This behavior does not inspire confidence. Looks more like a declaration of political bankruptcy." Also critical that while some government ministers constantly contradict, in his speech and image including giving little unity and solvency.

He says the government has "an inability to coordinate economic policy and to explain the reasoning behind the actions taken by the government" continued his lies have angered the population. Indicates if there is a total baylout and become the feared black men, will be the end of the political career of Rajoy. Not indicate whether this means that there will be a government of technocrats or a relay inside the PP itself.

Also criticized the neoliberal policies that inflated the housing bubble over, and the European Union not to keep a tight check on European aid granted to the country in recent decades. According to Der Spiegel, eurpeos funds have failed to modernize the country, but to build enormous unnecessary infrastructure, in order for an inefficient political class. Notes that the country has failed to be competitive and has lived under a state protectionism too, inherited from the era of dictatorship, 40 years ago.

He praises the patience that are taking the Spanish despite the difficulties and notes that only in late July increased protests and strikes, which foresees happening again in September after the August parentheses. Notes the towering unemployment rates and concludes that this social environment of instability and protests will be increased an additional problem.

Indicates that the Spanish are not willing to accept cuts in pensions and health: "The Spanish are not willing to accept without question the idea that the weaker members of society must be deprived of the social safety net, but are expressing their dissatisfaction without being aggressive. In Spain, unlike Greece, the demonstrations have been held without violence. "

"Is this a stable, reliable partner European Union this often praised as the alliance of" southern anchor ", the fourth largest economy in the euro zone after Germany, France and Italy, at a crossroads? And it could not even see a return to the times authoritarian, nationalist, 37 years after the death of former dictator Francisco Franco? "write Der Spiegel.

Also a brief review of the "anti European history" of the country, from the sixteenth century with some ultra-conservative power structures that have traditionally plugged all innovation and all social or economic progress, indicating that all enlightened and modern coming from Europe for centuries has been seen as anti Spanish.

It notes that "this attitude reached its climax unhappy expeditions to ensure brutal colonial rule and the Inquisition, during which unimaginable atrocities committed in the name of the church. They were also a deliberate rejection of Europe."

But there is also a positive side. Der Spiegel believes that Spain is not Greece, which has a high interest as a holiday destination for Germans, a paradise of beaches, monuments, culture and history and has a multinational and very important assets for investors, citing the bank Santander as the best bank in the world in 2012, companies such as Inditex, or Telefonica. However also notes that long innovation and technology has been forgotten.

To Der Spiegel, the main problem are the Spanish banks.

"Premiums of great interest to the Spanish government bonds in international markets are not based on fundamentals, as German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said last Tuesday during a meeting in Berlin with his Spanish counterpart. Main problem Spain is liquidity, particularly with their banks. "


 Along with its ally, Rajoy plans to develop a new strategy to apply pressure to Chancellor Merkel. Facing south and north of Europe together. The same day, Draghi will have to explain to their colleagues in the Council of the ECB as its offer to print money is supposed to work.