The controversy over the confirmation of the will of the British government of Boris Johnson to get the Kingdom out of Erasmus, the historic exchange program between European students, as soon as Brexit is in force, rebounds in the international media.
The issue was settled once and for all yesterday afternoon with the clear rejection of an amendment to the law ratifying the divorce from Brussels presented by the liberal democratic opposition in a House of Commons now dominated by the conservatives of Boris Johnson after last month's election victory .
The vote, as expected, aroused protests on social media today by various students and academics of the Kingdom, on the same day in which the final approval of the Municipalities of the ratification is expected, before the ritual passage of the procedure of the law next week in the House of Lords.
The end of Erasmus was also announced, against the background of Prime Minister Tory's promise to end the freedom of automatic movement with the exit from the EU and to change the rules of the game on immigration in general, with a substantial equalization between Europeans and it is not a point system for the input filter based in the future as in Australia on the exclusive evaluation of the qualities of the aspirants.
"Yes, the UK House of Commons has also officially said goodbye to Erasmus +, that platform which also includes the European student exchange program so appreciated by generations of European students. Brexit is now in fact and not for me to say what is right and what is wrong. I have always said that the popular will should be respected. This does not mean that today is really a very sad day because, if the European project has grown in recent years, if the Union, above all among the younger generations, it has become concrete, it is also due to initiatives such as Erasmus ". Sergio Battelli, president of the EU Commission for the Policies of the Chamber, writes it on his social channels. "Every loss requires a reflection and a restructuring, therefore I believe that the EU must necessarily rethink the educational path for the new generations. Only the exchange and integration will make the European citizen of tomorrow, certainly not the closings and the perches", He concludes.