L5ACR1_E_ Spain and the European Union
Listen to the audio and answer the following questions.
"Your Majesty, prime ministers, Lord President of the Council, Presidents of the Community's institutions, |
Excerpt from the speech by Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González |
Questions:
- What type of source is this and what is its historical context?
Classify and justify your answer.(2 points) - What main problems were occurring at this moment in Spain (1975-1986).(2 points)
- Do you believe that the accession to the EEC benefited Spain? explain how.
Read these Cohesion Policy document (link), summarize the Funds for Spain and explain your opinion about how much those funds can aid some regions.
Justify your answer. (2 points) - What were the reasons, why Spain could not join the EEC (now EU-European Union) before 1985?
Give your comment on this quote and give your explanation to what it refers to:
"we have set a milestone to achieve unity in our continent and also to overcome Spain's secular isolation.(2 points) - European Union: (2 points)
5.1 Do you know what the Charter of Fundamental rights is- link -? and the European Citizenship initiative? Choose one right from the Charter, and explain why in your opinion it is important.
5.2 Read what Martin Schulz says about the the European Union: Do you agree? Justify your answer.
5.3 Do you agree with the content of this ?
Study resources
- look at Study resouces L5 and also at Catalan task and L5ACR2_Fòrum Pactes de la Moncloa i Europa
European Union Webs:
- Charter of Fundamental rights enllaç-.
- European Citizens Initiative- enllaç-. Open Initiatives :enllaç-
- One Open initiative you can sign enllaç-
- Diari oficial Unió Europea,versió consolidada any 2012- enllaç-
To improve your Knowledge about European Union:
- Europe: history (link)
- infographics European Parlament -link.
- Founds Feder 2014-20,
- els fons de cohesió, a Catalunya
- de les possibles vies de futur dels 27 estats membres,
- així com de la creació del cos europeu de joves i la possibilitat de participar en aquest voluntariat.
- News:
EU get real.
EU matters to young people
- Founds Feder 2014-20,
- El desencant europeu (enllaç)
- Susan George:http://www.mujeresenred.net/spip.php?article2048
Europe Actions (study, jobs, activities, resources...) **
- Europa educació (link)
- Adult education (link)
- Erasmus for all ( enllaç)
- Presupuestos 2014-2020 (link)
- European Year of Citizens 2013 (enllaç).
- Programa Ploteus (link)
- Your voice in Europe (link)
Spain: EPA (employment). (INE: enllaç)
Dictionaries :
You can use this frame to answer the questions.
Structure | Useful starters | Useful vocabulary |
Source |
It is perfectly clear that you can see...
As you can see… This source is a... |
Primary /secondary source / textual/ iconographical/ cartographical/ statistical/political /public/ private/ |
Context |
It refers to… CEE: European Union The impact of... The context of 1982... Prime Minister Felipe González, Spain... different problems Deficit levels...cannot be sustained indefinitely. Spanish socialist Party... The main reason for the success of... As a result,... |
Before/After the ... in 1982, .... triumphant arrival. country's transition from dictatorship to democracy Dictatorship,Parliamentary democracy, youngest democracy, an absolute majority Spanish society, fiscal tax :changes in taxes and in welfare benefits. flexibility,,public/private debt economy, crisis, inflation, recession, unemployment rates serious strikes, deficit, petrol crisis FMI/ finance minister/ politics |
Sentences and Concepts |
He led Spain from 1982 to 1996...and... He said..., he will argue... He led the country... To invest.. to The kind of policy... The system of taxation... The authorities were incapable of handling The foreign policy was oriented to.. This alone explains/ doesn't explain.... The depression-level unemployment rate of nearly..% To improve economic competitiveness He consolidated... He consolidated... and brought ... Spain's remarkable transformation in the 1980's...
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Spain's young democracy, isolated country into NATO and the European Uniom political allies, military bases authoritarian past, freedom , democratic regime external forces, infrastructures, factories, health care. education, salaries, infrastructures, market reforms country's transition from dictatorship to democracy ...into the European Union
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