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Beyond the numbers, tariffs, fishing and visas, Brexit is going to have a series of consequences that can only be seen over time.

Inside that

fine print of the breakup

, there is the departure of the Erasmus + program by the United Kingdom.

The umpteenth unfulfilled promise of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who not a year ago assured that he would reach an agreement with Brussels to keep it, has resulted in the creation of the Turing program, an attempt to reply that, in addition to not having the The necessary infrastructure does not take into account the arrival of students to British universities.

Those who want to enrich their academic records there, will have to pay the full cost of their pockets, so, for practical purposes, the doors of one of the favorite destinations of young people in the European Union will be closed.

All this despite the fact that, last January, the Prime Minister assured in Parliament that there was "no threat" that would jeopardize permanence in the Erasmus + program.

Just 12 months later, its exit is sold as another triumph within the strategy of regaining control.

The problem is that, as a House of Lords report has reflected, replicating the benefits of a system that has been in place for more than 30 years is going to be very difficult in the short and medium term.

"The real problem is that the UK contributed enormously to the continent's high-quality education economy over the last few decades. In that period we've had a lot of European students with us, which is wonderful, but that also meant that our taxpayers They would lose out with the agreement. The Erasmus program was extremely expensive, "says Johnson, who states that he has not managed to reach an economic agreement with the European Union and that is why he has had to create a new one to which he will allocate

110 million euros per year

With which it intends to support 35,000 young people in England, Scotland and Wales.

For his part, Michel Barnier, chief negotiator of the 27 on Brexit, pointed out this issue during the presentation of the economic agreement as

one of the two great failures of the talks between London and Brussels

.

According to data from 2017, 16,571 British students benefited from the program, while 31,727 community members chose the United Kingdom as their destination.

This 2021 will be, however, the last in which the agreements remain in force.

The issue has also reopened territorial disputes within the United Kingdom itself due to nonconformity with Brexit.

Northern Ireland will remain within Erasmus + with its own funding, while Scotland, which intends to return to the bloc if it manages to advance the independence cause, has already asked to be allowed to do the same after sending 14,000 students to community universities between 2014 and 2018.

"Ending participation in the Erasmus + program, an initiative that has expanded the horizons and opportunities of so many young people during these years, is nothing more than a sample of cultural vandalism by the British Government," he pointed out on his Twitter account Scottish Chief Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Johnson, for his part, and continuing with the speech of opening the United Kingdom beyond the borders of the EU, has said that the

Turing program will

allow British students "to go not only to the best European universities, but to the best world universities ".

It remains to be seen, in any case, how they start up all the necessary infrastructure from scratch, because, although they try to replicate the existing agreements with Erasmus to avoid the bureaucratic process, the academic institutions of the 27 will have little incentive as their students do not receive any kind of help to make the reverse trip to the islands.

Meanwhile, in Universities UK, where at first they received the news with "disappointment", they have decided to change their position and look optimistically at the benefits of the Turing program.

"As I understand it, there are going to be scholarships for young people not only in universities, but also in other areas, so support will be provided for studies and possibly also work and volunteering. These experiences will be to help them get a job, especially those who, coming from families with lower incomes, would have fewer opportunities to travel abroad ", points out

Vivienne Stern

, director of the international area of ​​the organization.

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