1. EUROPE III Review Questions? Devolution
Virtual field trips?
Geography Today
Iceland/Greenland
Devolution
United Kingdom
Eastern Europe
Former Yugoslavia
Two Perspectives on European Union

2. Iceland/Greenland Iceland: 300,000, fishing & tourism
Declined to join EU, opposes common fishery policy
EFTA member
“Iceland has never held a referendum on joining the EU; it should be the same beige shade as Switzerland. The book is wrong, and your student deserves a bonus point! ”
Greenland: 59,000, fishing
Joins EC in 1973 with Denmark
Home rule in 1979 as Self-governing Overseas Administrative Division of Denmark: Kalaallit Nunaat
Secedes from EC in 1985
Has access to some EU programs based on its status

3. A Student Asks…
“I am trying to look for an article for my GEOG TODAY assignment. …Would you mind giving some examples of assignments done in the past so I can get a better feel for the NATURE of topics?”

4. Responses: Re-read the course outline
Look over the FAQs on the course web page
Read the newspaper everyday!
Buy a copy in Chapters
Go to university library
Go to public library
Let your curiosity run wild!

5. Supranationalism Issues
Loss of autonomy
Disparities in levels of economic development & transfer payments
Technical trade barriers
Product standards, inspection
Certification, labelling
Cultural barriers
Common Agricultural Policy
Chunnel/Øresund Fixed Link (16 kms)

6. European Regions Western Europe The British Isles Nordic Europe
Mediterranean
Europe
Eastern Europe

7. Germany of
the past
The Federal
Republic
Germany
Today
Germany

8. British Isles

9. Devolution in United Kingdom
“How convenient it would be if physical geography and political geography coincided!”
Northern Ireland Assembly
Welsh Assembly
Scottish Parliament

11. Underlying forces of Nationalism
Centrifugal forces
Forces that tend to divide a country
Religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences
Centripetal forces
Forces that unite and bind a country together
A strong national culture and history, shared ideology, and a common faith

12. Devolution
Outcome of centrifugal forces that cause regions or nationalities within a state to demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy
By peaceful negotiation
By rebellion
Some combination
At ‘the expense of the central government’

13. Balkanization
Break up (as in a region) into smaller and often hostile units
Originates from a mountain range in Bulgaria
Balkan countries of the Balkan peninsula

14. DEVOLUTION IN
EUROPE

15. Shatter belt
Term applied to eastern europe by geographers to describe a zone of chronic political splintering and fracturing
Why here?

16. ETHNIC
MOSIAC OF
EASTERN
EUROPE

17. Subregions of Eastern Europe
Countries facing the Baltic Sea
The landlocked center
Countries facing the Adriatic Sea
Countries facing the Black Sea

18. Countries facing the Adriatic Sea
Slovenia: first to secede; ethnically most homogeneous
Croatia: largely RC
Bosnia: centrally positioned
Serbia: largest and most populous
Macedonia: 65% Macedonian, 21% Albanian
Serbia-montenegro: includes Serbia, Kosovo, Vojvodina, and Montenegro
Albania: remnant of Turkish Ottoman empire; 70% Muslims; lowest economic ranking in Europe