History & Structure of the EU
- How the EU Works (Required)
- Guide for Americans
- BBC News: How the EU Works (Video)
- Europa: The History of the European Union
Current Issues the EU Faces
- The EU in 2019: Challenges and crises await from dw.com 2 Jan 2019 (Required)
- World Economic Forum: The Six Issues That Will Shape the EU in 2017 (compare with the one above)
- Human Rights Watch: European Union Events of 2016
- Congressional Research Service: The European Union: Current Challenges and Future Prospects (Recommended; updated annually)
- BBC News: What Challenges Does the European Union Face? (Video)
- Council on Foreign Relations: U.S. – EU Relations (Podcast, March 2017) and an update on Transatlantic Tensions (Podcast, 2018)
- Council on Foreign Relations: Brexit's Next Six Months (Podcast, April 2019)
Brexit
- BBC News: Brexit: All You Need to Know About the UK Leaving the EU (Required)
- History: The History Behind Brexit
- BBC News: Eight Reasons Leave Won the UK’s Referendum on the EU
- Pew Research Center: After Brexit, an Uncertain Fate for UK’s Nearly 3 Million EU-Born Migrants
- Pew Research Center: Post Brexit, Europeans More Favorable Toward EU
The Rise of Nationalism and the European Elections
- BBC News: Nationalism in Heart of Europe Needles EU (Required)
- EU Elections 2019: How the System Works and Why It Matters from the NY Times on-line (Behind firewall, but you should be able to gain access as educators)
- The 2019 EU Elections in 5 Posters on Quartz (Images; not comprehensive)
- Bloomberg: How the Populist Right is Redrawing the Map of Europe (Maps/Graphs)
- Council on Foreign Relations: What’s Next for Poland’s Democratic Decline?
- NPR: Polish President Signs Controversial Laws as EU Triggers Punishment Clause