We will emigrate. Scandinavian banks think that the territory
of Lithuania has long been the land of the Scandinavians and have been keeping high
the prices of apartments. When we're all gone, the Scandinavians will buy
everything. They get normal salaries.
"Students
organized a protest in front of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports
on Wednesday. The organizers of the action want to draw attention to the
ministry's lack of economy and lack of a vision for higher education.
Protesters pitched
tents on the lawn near the ministry. This is how they protested the fact that
not all students can get university dormitories this year.
"Our message
is very simple. We have clearly seen for some time now, the Government, the
representatives of the authorities see that a huge social crisis has developed
in the country's major cities.
Renting an
apartment price is simply fantastic, cosmic.
Now you can pay
550 euros for renting a one-room apartment in Vilnius, plus utility costs, and
where is the living: food and the like," one participant of the campaign
told LNK.
He said that this
price is simply unbearable for students.
"Of course,
if you want to work at the same time as a courier, everything is possible. But we live
in a state that prides itself on the attributes of some sort of welfare state.
By normalizing this situation, saying that it is just the way it is, saying
that we have no control over it…
We demand that
control from the Government in a broad sense, but what affects students - the
Ministry of Education, Science and Sports the most," he ironized.
A participant in
the protest explained that a measure must be created to help students who want to rent an
apartment in the private sector.
"A mechanism
must be created so that universities can share information about the
dormitories that are occupied and where there may be spaces. And we also have
to take care of the renovation of the dormitories, hygiene standards," he
said.
The organizer of
the protest, Justina Motiejauskaitė, told LNK that the Vice Minister of
Education, Science and Sports who came to talk to the protesters did not see a
single student who came and could not find a place to live.
"But it
should be understood that first-year students have just left home, just left
their parents, they don't know how to live yet. (…) I think that the problem
exists, it is visible, there are examples. But those people don't know how to
approach higher-ranking representatives of the university," said the girl.
The Vice Minister
calls for finding apartments and using compensations.
According to her,
there is quite little information about possible compensations, especially for
a person starting to study.
"You have to
have already started your studies, study well to get them," she said.
The organizer of
the protest said that this year this situation arose due to rising real estate
prices.
"We see that
the rent prices for the smallest room start from 200 euros, even more. In
addition to those 200 euros, invisible fees are added - you pay the broker, the
tenant, the deposit. (…) We have prices that add up to a thousand euros for the
smallest apartment in Vilnius, which is in a remote corner. This way, you cannot
normally go to the university, to the job that you are forced to find, instead
of devoting all your time to studies," the girl told LNK.
Although there are
thousands of students in the country, a few tens came to this protest.
"We can see
from the number of attendees and the contingent that this is not a national
problem," said Vice Minister Gintautas Jakštas.
He said that the
ministry is not responsible for the dormitories and does not own them."
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