European Identity and Euro Crisis in European Union Assignment

Assignment Task

Question

1. What is European identity and how is it projected in the world?

2. What are the EU’s main unifying and divisive elements?

3. What factors contributed to the ‘Euro Crisis’? (External students CANNOT select this if they choose short essay #2).

4. What is the key organisational objective(s) of NATO and the EU’s Common Defence and Security Policy (CDSP) concerning the security of Europe? Are they complementary or in opposition to each other?

5. Is more integration in Europe necessary? What would it achieve?

6. What type of actor is the EU in world affairs?

7. Who are the key actors in the EU’s energy policy? Have they changed over the past five years, and if so, why?

8. Who are the key actors in the EU’s environmental policy? Have they changed over the past five years, and if so, why?

9. Has eastern enlargement made the EU more powerful?

10. Do the large member states determine EU policy? Or are the smaller and medium states equally influential?

11. Will the EU become a military power? (External students CANNOT select this if they choose short essay #1)

12. What is the EU’s greatest influence in the contemporary world?

13. What are the key roles of EITHER the European Commission OR the European Parliament? What are some of the key areas of contention between this institution and member states’ own governing institutions?

14. What are some of the main challenges facing the EU?

15. Where are the boundaries of ‘Europe’ and why?

16. Which external actor is most important for the EU? Why?

17. How does populism pose a threat to the EU?

18. Which is the EU’s most crucial member state? Why?

19. Why did the UK leave the EU?

20. Is the EU a security community that has overcome the ‘anarchy’ of international relations in Europe?

21. Analyse how the war in Ukraine has altered the EU’s security. You can choose EITHER defense, OR energy security, OR the security dimension of the war's impact on EU economies, including the reaction of EU institutions.

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