SOS questions (February exam)

Practice lessons

• How did the idea of a united Europe germinate? (1)
• Which are the founding treaties and their issues? (1)
• How many countries have joined the EU since 2004? (1)
• Which countries are candidate members? (1)
• Briefly refer to the four symbols of the EU. (2)
• What do you know about the European Parliament’s elections and its seat? (6)
• Describe in brief the three main working areas of the Parliament. (6)
• What do we mean by the ‘co-decision procedure’? (6)
• Justify the sentence: ‘The European Parliament is the democratic voice of the citizens’.(6)
• Which are the four freedoms of movement? (8)
• What do you know about the free movement of people within the EU? (8)[1]
• What does the EU do in order to prevent organised crime? (8)
• Eurocrat, Eurosceptic, Euroland, four freedoms, Intergovernmental Conference, Schengenland, official languages, subsidiarity principle. (9)

Theory lessons

• Who is considered to be the instigator of the European Single Market? Why? (1)
• In how many political groups are the members of the European Parliament divided? (3)
• What do we mean by the term of ‘co-decision procedure’? (3)
• Explain the motto “think small first”. How is this principle met in the EU? (4)
• Refer to the Europass documents and their value.(6)
• Which funding programmes would attract: (6)
  a higher-education student
  a young worker
  a secondary-education teacher
  an adult
• Briefly refer to the main goals of the Union’s Education and Training 2010 work programme.(6)
• Explain the statement “Mother tongue-plus-two”. (8)
• Which treaties is the Constitutional Treaty going to replace? (9)
• Briefly refer to the structure of the Constitutional Treaty. (9)
• Refer to the procedures needed in order for the Constitutional Treaty to enter into force.(9)
  
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  Special attention should also be paid to all T/F exercises (including their justifications) and theory lesson 3, which deals with the European Institutions. Vocabulary exercises will be similar to the ones included in your notes, but there will be no more than one exercise in each part.

[1] Please have in mind that all EU member states -plus Norway and Iceland- belong to the Schengen area, as well as the newcomers (i.e. the countries that have entered the EU since 2004), except Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. The UK and Ireland are still out of the Schengen agreement. This means that you need a valid passport or ID to travel to these countries.