This Thursday there will be ordinary session. Photo: Chamber of Senators.
Some legislators are in favor and others are against including for this Thursday, the project that repeals the agreement with the European Union, for the Educational Transformation program. The proposal has been pending study since last year.
The repeal of the agreement with the European Union was approved in the Chamber of Deputies, therefore, If successful in the Senate, it will be sent directly to the Executive Branch.
In this regard, the President of the Republic, Mario Abdo Benítez, announced that, if the legislation reaches that instance, its automatic response will be a total veto.
Senator Blanca Ovelar revealed that her colleagues Enrique Riera and Georgia Arrúa, requested during the meeting of the Board of Directors, to include the treatment of the project. However, yesThere were many more who opposed it, so it will not be included on this week’s agenda, according to the Secretary General of the Senate, Antonio Sánchez.
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“There are things that can be improved in the implementation, those that generate noise, but it is a non-reimbursable cooperation that must be used for the enormous needs that we have in education,” said Ovelar, in an interview with Universo-Nación Media.
For its part, the European Union presented three main points about the non-reimbursable agreement with Paraguay:
The EU does not finance the Educational Transformation project.
Does not decide the content of the curriculum of the Paraguayan public education system
The funds that the EU allocates to the education sector are non-reimbursable and unconditional.
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