Zalaegerszeg (hungary)23rd-26th october 2012 Public services and immigration |
The only non-Mediterranean country was warmly welcoming its distinguished partners. And we really could make astonished our friends as it almost snowed when we had our meeting. It was a real challenge especially for the kids from Saint Martin. Winter coat is an unknown term there and they had to order it via the net. Everybody was a real hero in the real nasty foggy autumn weather. However after the first shocks the guests felt it rather interesting than unpleasant. The programme was based on ’Hungaricum”-s so we intended to show them as many truly unique Hungarian things as possibly, They arrived int he afternoon of our national celebration so they got a bit of our History. Int he evening we took them to the concert where the masterpieces of our greatest composers were played. They also could take part in one of our school traditions called ’Students’ week’ with its many programmes. The guests performed in the show ’Stage is your’ and could play football and basketball against teachers. We organized a ’Dinner party’ where we made our countries national dishes together. We tried to show some of the old traditions and those of the original landscape on our trip to Kis-Balaton. As belongs to the official content of the meeting, we tried hard to find out a lot about the provision of public services and the immigrants facilities of using them. First we had to define the term and we agreed that they are the services provided by the government for all the people living in the are lead by them. And if the immigrants pay taxes for the governments, they have the right to use them according to Lisbon treaty. The trouble is not here but they begin with illegal immigrants. They make a real burden on the government as they somehow should be looked after. It is better for them as they can enjoy social security, basic health care, they get warm food, shelter etc. although it is also good for the local people because of the security of the area. Of course nobody is happy if a camp is planned to be built in the neighborhood. We initiated the ’logo’ project and the results are uploaded here. |
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