SUBJECTS

AQUACULTURE GEOGRAPHY Contents Aquaculture is now a very relevant activity. Approximately 47% of the fish consumed in the world today come from aquaculture and in Europe the corresponding level of consumption is 20%. Furthermore, in Europe about 65,000 workers live from this sector. Despite the...

COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To know how the EU supports its food producers. To understand the principles and objectives of the CAP. To understand how public policies that support the agricultural sector affect international trade Contents The Common...

COMMON FISHERIES POLICY GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To know how to regulate the EU fisheries sector. To understand the main problems facing the fisheries sector at both the EU and global scales. To identify the potential of the aquaculture sector in the EU. Contents The...

EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To know how the EU structures its relations with its closest neighbours. To discover the projects or areas of interest on which these types of associations are based. Contents The European Neighbourhood Policy...

IMMIGRATION IN THE EU GEOGRAPHY Contents To face up to the demographic challenge facing the EU, it is necessary to establish quotas on the arrival of migration from outside the EU. The combination of the fall in the fertility rate and the increase in life expectancy means that in around 40 years’...

PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To provide information about the European landscape. Contents Europe only occupies 6.2% of the surface of our planet. Without any clear limits towards the East, the separation between the European and Asian continents have been...

POLITICAL ORGANISATION OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE EU GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To understand the political systems of the European countries. To identify the main differences between Europe’s different political systems Contents The systems of government of the EU can be divided...

POPULATION GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To discover the main tendencies and challenges which have affected the population of Europe. To understand the need for immigration for the future of the EU. To understand the main characteristics of the immigrant population living in the...

SECESSIONIST TENSIONS WITHIN THE EU GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To identify regions that could potentially seek to become new EU states. To understand what lies behind the secessionist movements within the EU. To understand the possible positive and negative effects of...

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To understand the concept of sustainable development. To know the principles on which the EU has based its policy of sustainable development. Contents Sustainable development is a transversal objective that has implications for...

THE REGIONAL POLICY OF THE EU GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To know the main funds destined to regional policy. To understand the criteria for granting aid from the EU’s cohesion funds. Contents The regional policy of the EU, which is also referred to as its Cohesion Policy, aims...

TRANSPORT NETWORKS IN EUROPE GEOGRAPHY Specific Objectives and Competences To know the objectives and principles that determine European transport policy To identify the main transport corridors for the EU. To understand the need for sustainable transport. Contents The EU has had a common...

ENLARGEMENTS HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To distinguish the different phases of enlargement that the EU has passed through, which countries have been involved in each phase and which countries are currently in the process of joining the EU. Which countries entered the EU in each of...

EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To overcome difficulties through collaboration and understanding. To understand the international institutional architecture that emerged after WWII. To understand the reasons that gave rise to the beginning of the process of...

FROM THE ECSC TO THE TREATY OF LISBON HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To understand the logic of the construction of Europe from its origins. To know the relative chronology of the EU treaties. To learn about the main contributions of each of the treaties to the process of European...

OVERCOMING FRANCO-GERMAN RIVALRY HISTORY Contents Franco-German reconciliation was seen as the first challenge for establishing lasting peace in Europe and as a base on which to build greater collaboration between the countries of Europe. Robert Schuman, who is considered one of the founding...

THE DECENTRALISED EUROPEAN AGENCIES HISTORY Contents Whereas the European institutions are concentrated in Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasburg and Frankfurt, there is another level of administration (agencies) which is present in a large number of European cites. This is a response to the EU’s desire...

THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AND THE REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To understand the importance that the end of the separation of Germany had for Europe. To understand the logic of international relations during the Cold War period. To verify the difference in...

THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE EU HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To know about the generation of politicians who made it possible to undertake the process of European construction. To know about the type of model for integration that was used at the beginning of the process of European...

THE INDEPENDENCE OF KOSOVO HISTORY Contents The independence of Kosovo is a clear example of the divergences within the EU with respect to questions relating to foreign policy. This territory unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 and has been recognised by 23 of the current...

THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE EU HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To recognise the main institutions of the EU, their locations and functions. To understand the roles of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Council in the decision-making process. To understand how...

THE MARSHALL PLAN HISTORY Contents Faced with the bleak panorama of post-war Europe and the difficulty that the European states encountered to meet their debt payments, in 1948, US Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall launched an ambitious plan to aid European recovery: the European Recovery...

THE ROLE OF THE EU WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA HISTORY Specific Objectives and Competences To understand the principles on which the foreign policy of the EU is based. To discover the type of actions undertaken by the EU with respect to third party countries. To identify weaknesses in the...

THE WAR IN THE BALKANS HISTORY Contents The war in the Balkans included the different conflicts that took place between 1991 and 1995 involving the different territories formed after the breakup of the former state of Yugoslavia. These events showed the great divisions between the EU member states...