POL 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Treaty Establishing A Constitution For Europe, Brexit, Polish Plumber
2 Aug 2018
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Cases: quebec, spain (catalonia, hong-kong, taiwan, scotland flanders and belgium, eu & brexit. 3 questions are 10 marks, and 2 questions are 5 marks. Early enlargement and the uk system: uk applied to join eu in 1960s but required unity, but france opposed. British membership in eu: arguments were that uk was not european and too right of centre to mesh with continental european. Its orientation is trans-atlantic which is towards the us: when france left, they agreed to british membership. Where states had well defined and controlled borders. The failed european constitution (2004-2005: things started to turn. Monday, december 4th, 2017: this was difficult, because its hard to bind all states together under a constitution. The currency: the common currency has had mixed reviews, then everyone is linked to some situation. Far-right populist parties and movements in the members state.
