GEOG 2600 Lecture 9: European Union to European Superpower
24 Sep 2016
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Lecture 9: european union to european superpower?2016-09-23: powerpoint 1: eu headlines 2016. How do they get to europe: **see ppt for trends of questions on slides, 6. Established quotas for how many refugees to bring in: 7. Eritrea, iraq, afghanistan and iran- not many compared to actual number of refugees. Other news: youth unemployment, huge in eu even more than in na- 40-60% under age of 30 unemployed/underemployed, greece bankrupt, uk finally finishes paying for wwi, continuing discontent within eu- greece and italy threatened to leave, Hungary and austria shut borders to migrants, denmark putting up hard line against migrants: brexit= british exit. Major movement in uk to leave eu, referendum coming up in june: euro crisis- gaps between countries benefitting from (germany, Netherlands) currency and those who aren"t (spain, italy, france, greece, Privatizing europe: neoliberal master plan for europe- very wealthy transnational corporations are benefitting substantially from eu plan as opposed to supporting efforts of smaller businesses/country interests.
