How has E. U. Membership Benefited Italy? | Back |
     
1. Complete the 'Heads and Tails' exercise.
I'm a businessman and Italy being a member of the E.U. ...  ... and investment from the E.U.'s fund for disadvantaged areas.
I drive a lorry for a living and the E.U.  has helped to pay for a ...........  ... helps me find markets for my products.
We have hot dry summers and sandy beaches in the south of Italy and money from the E.U. is ....  ... with health care and education.
I work at a ski resort in the Valle d'Aosta and the E.U. has helped ....  ... a new motorway the full length of Italy
The South continues to receive heavy funding ...  .... guarantees the price of my farm products
I'm young but I live and work in the South  of Italy which is very poor and the E.U. has ...  ... has helped build many new factories and even a huge oil refinery.
I'm a poor farmer and I like the way the E.U. has ....  ... develop winter sports facilities ... Italy's tourist industry.
I live in Sicily and and money from the E.U. has helped to ...  ... being used to promote holidays and tourism.
     
     
2. Do you think richer areas of a country should support poorer areas or is it better for people to migrate to richer areas to find work. Explain your answer.
     
3. Do you think the European Union should spend money helping  a region in one of the seven richest countries in the world. Explain your answer.