Group summary of all the topics

Group summary of all the topics.

- Is democracy in crisis? - Juanma

We all have a point in common that democracy is in crisis and that’s because of money. There’s no ‘’famous’’ party in Spain that can be the alternative, because they’ve shown that they’re not looking for the good of citizens, they’re looking for the good of their pockets. We all think that the system will collapse because the governments do nothing about the situation in Spain and citizens don’t feel represented by their governments. The ‘’equality’’ is not so ‘’equal’’ because now the ‘’political class’’ has appeared, and that has made politicians to be in a bubble and they don’t see what citizens see, also, they only look for the good of its ‘’political class’’. You can tell yourself how well is going the country if the leaders that are supposed to be honest, and the ones that give example, are almost all corrupted. You can’t have a government that is being chantaged everyday by an overall corrupted person, that even wants to receive 1 million € for an ‘’unfair dismissal’’ (That 1 million of € coming from the citizens) and that even has 22 million € in Switzerland. That points to a very critical situation. Another big issue of ‘’democracy’’ is that parties say whatever they need to just be in the power, and that’s not fair, because their ellectors aren’t being represented, only their political class is being represented. So all in all, democracy is in crisis, and all it’s just because of money.

- What’s going on in Spain? - Patricia

Nowadays Spain is suffering a crisis for four years.

This crisis came since the burst of the Spanish housing bubble. Spanish economy has headed downwards and it's getting worse

Something like that occurred in Greece but it was too small but Spain is the zone's fourth (after Germany, France and Italy) and that means that if Spain finally requires a bailout can cause a lot of damage all by itself.

Germany and other countries have been pressure to have a bailout but it can be the biggest blow to the euro yet and Spain is refusing due to the big changes and consequences.

After the general strike in Spain, people went out onto the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the new labor law of the government, we can't know how Spain reached this situation.

In these days, Spanish citizens are paying the debt into which we have incurred.

- Economical Crisis - Fernando

The economical crisis that Spain is suffering happens because during the 2000s Spain had a furious boom in housing construction and that made started a housing bubble. In 2002 the bubble burst doing the prices of the houses to be increased and the salaries didn´t increased.

So now the thing that happens is that now we are controlled by the richest European countries like Germany and United Kingdom.Now The Popular Party government is doing some extreme cuts in all areas except in his area that is the richest area of the country.

- Real Democracies now? - Cristina

There aren’t any real democracies now in Spain, this is because the human rights are been replaced by the money because of the governments, companies and banks. This is called materialist world.

This is a crisis of a leak of principles that affect to all the institutions of the state. So that if we want the crisis to end we have to start by giving back all those major principles that institutions and politicians have lost.

- Are our leaders independent?- Pedro

Nowadays nobody is independent because the money moves everything, and of course the politic. Everywhere you look around, the money leads it.

No politician can be independent because the most countries are capitalists and can’t ‘escape’ from money, but they don’t want to be split from money because it profits them.

Also the countries’ groups like the Euro Zone or the CIVETS

- Rescue of Spain - Belén

The decisions taken by the government in this period of instability, in which Spain is getting through, are really affecting normal people life but most of the people don’t realize it.

So, when politicians reach the power, most of them forget to work for the population, which is the reason why they are in the power. This is not a democracy.

With the problem of the Rescue in Spain, politicians aren’t taking democracy to practise. They are taking almost all the decisions being influenced by Brussels EBC and by the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. All of those decisions will affect most of the Spanish population. There will be many problematic consequences such as cutting spends of the autonomous communities, copayments and cuts in health or more taxes and labor reforms.