Our initiative consists on promoting the Tax to Financial Transactions Tax, so we have created a petition on change.org for collecting signatures supporting this tax. We have sent this petition through e-mail to friends, teachers, families, NGOs and even the members of the Europea Parliament.
For disseminating our initiative and promoting the European Union:
-We have informed about everything that we have done in our social nets.
-We went to a radio station (Onda Cero) and to a newspaper, Diario de Burgos, where we were interviewed about our project in Euroscola.
-We have given talks about the European Union in some Primary Schools and we made a video about it.
-We have made a Glogster, in which we summarized our initiative and incorporated links and videos we made.
-We have interviewed the citizens about their opinion about the EU and the FTT, and we have made a video.
-We also have made booklets with information about the European Countries and the EU institutions in collaboration with other students of our class. With them, we created a mural about the European Union, in our High School.
-We have drawn a comic about the FTT and designed designed a poster for promoting the FTT.
-We have talked with some economists and philosophers, in order to understand better the European Union.

We were supposed to participate in this contest in English but, as we wanted to reach many people (from different ages, countries...) we have translated every text that we have written and subtitled all the videos, so each text is in both languages: English and Spanish.


That´s how we work / Así trabajamos...

jueves, 10 de abril de 2014

Interviews about the European Union and Financial transacions Tax / Entrevistas sobre la Unión Europea y el Impuesto a las Transacciones Financieras


    We have prepared interviews to know the opinion of the citizens about the European Union (its advantages and its weaknesses) and although we obtained different answers, most of the people don’t have a lot of confidence in the Europen Union, due to, mainly,  the lack of effective solutions to the current crisis.  
    Other people think that is really good to belong to the European Union, and that it would be much worse for us to be alone as a country. As our project was about the Financial Transaction Tax ,we have also asked about it. Most of them don't know what  this tax consists of, although they have heard about it, so, we explained to them the importance of it.

Here you can see a video with some of these interviews:


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    Hemos realizado entrevistas para conocer la opinión de los ciudadanos sobre la Unión Europea (sus ventajas y sus defectos) y aunque hemos obtenido respuestas muy diferentes,  muchas de las personas muestran desconfianza respecto a la Unión Europea, principalmente debido a la falta de soluciones para la actual crisis económica.
    Otras personas piensan que pertenecer a la UE es muy ventajoso para nosotros y que nos iría mucho peor solos. Ya que nuestro proyecto trata sobre el Impuesto a las Transacciones Financieras, también preguntamos acerca de ello. La mayoría de la gente no sabe lo que es este impuesto, aunque si han oído hablar al respecto, por lo que aprovechamos para explicarles su importancia.


Aquí podéis ver un video con varias de las entrevistas: