EU Enlargement

EU Enlargement Will the EU get new members soon? Here’s what you need to know.

"Social eating"

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-16-social-eating-connects-communities

Football and European identity

https://ruvid.org/ri-world/football-as-a-key-factor-in-shaping-a-unified-european-identity/

Germany’s Scholz says EU must reform before it can admit Ukraine

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-scholz-say-eu-reform-admit-ukraine/

The many crises of Europe (and possible solutions)

PROBLEMS:

1. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/five-reasons-why-europe-is-cracking-up/

2. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/europe-terrorism-migrants-debt-crisis

3. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35060225

4. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/07/anti-europe-parties-arent-anti-europe-anymore/

5. http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_europe_under_pressure_to_act

6. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/25/refugee-crisis-european-union

7. Coronavirus: https://www.ecfr.eu/coronavirus,  https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_shared_goals_how_germanys_crisis_response_could_strengthen_europ

8. Trump: https://europeancultureandcivilization.blogspot.com/2025/04/europe-cannot-fathom-what-trumpian.html

SOLUTIONS:

The Appeal of 9 May: https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/press-releases/paris-georges-dassis-will-convey-european-appeal-9-may-president-francois-hollande

Six Ideas to Save Europe: http://thebaladeur.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/six-ideas-to-save-eu.html

So, What's the Big Idea, European Union? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/so-whats-the-big-idea-european-union

Three things the EU must do to survive: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/25/three-things-the-eu-must-do-to-survive

Coronavirus solutions: https://www.esm.europa.eu/content/europe-response-corona-crisis#esm%E2%80%99s_role_in_the_european_response

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/spanish-pm-survival-eu-rests-response-coronavirus-crisis

Putin has given birth to geopolitical Europe

Links about Spanish Character

Spain – A great place to live, a terrible place to work? 

How to Be Spanish (The Times)

Spanish rude expressions

Extranjeros sobre España (Huffington Post)

Estereotipos españoles (Huggington Post)

Eurovision Song Contest

2023: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/14/this-years-eurovision-was-a-political-statement-whatever-the-organisers-may-have-wanted https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2023-04/eurovision-war-and-geopolitics-pop 

2022: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-wins-eurovision-as-european-voters-show-song-contest-solidarity/

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48325868

https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/17/how-politics-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-at-eurovision


https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/eurovision-2018-sees-global-turmoil-take-centre-stage-1.3486014


https://www.politico.eu/article/13-times-eurovision-song-contest-got-political/

"As the most anticipated event of the 2016 calendar draws ever nearer, tensions are running high: people up and down the country are considering and re-considering their position, reflecting on our national identity, the intricacies of an aged voting system, our relationship with our European neighbours, and the result’s knock-on effect on the European referendum. Sorry – you thought I meant the European referendum? No, I’m talking about the 61st Eurovision Song Contest."
Siobhan Palmer (28 APRIL 2016)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/04/26/is-eurovision-really-all-political-why-the-balkan-voting-bloc-is/