GEOG 2600 Lecture 9: European Union to European Superpower
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture 9 mar 9: european union to european. Eu and turkey hold difficult summit in march. Breakthrough deal with turkey: one for one - for every migrant that gets turned back from entering eu, needs to be one migrant accepted from a refugee camp. Un expresses concern, could contravene international law. Another migrant boat sinking claims 25 lives. **see ppt for trends of questions on slides! Established quotas for how many refugees to bring in. Eritrea, iraq, afghanistan and iran- not many compared to actual number of refugees. Shaky cease fire seems to be holding in eastern ukraine- big guns are pulled back but many violations. Youth unemployment, huge in eu even more than in na- 40-60% under age of 30 unemployed/underemployed. Continuing discontent within eu- greece and italy threatened to leave, Hungary and austria shut borders to migrants, denmark putting up hard line against migrants. Major movement in uk to leave eu, referendum coming up in june.
