Monday, February 14, 2011
Abstract: Current Challenges
As a country recently admitted to the EU (March 8, 2003), Malta is currently facing many challenges and opportunities. Since its admission to the EU, Malta has been working to meet the standards that the EU requires of all of its members, including a minimum of twenty percent RES by 2020. Also, with its strategic geographic location in the Mediterranean Sea, Malta plays an important role in terrorism prevention. This set of circumstances provides Malta with room for a surprising amount of political power for such a small nation. What is Malta doing to create RES, what have they done to prevent terrorism, and how has their recent situation affected their power in global politics since their admission to the EU.
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ReplyDeleteI find your research topic incredibly interesting, considering that admittance to the EU must be an incredibly validating step for a small island like Malta, which I read is the smallest country in the EU. I understand that Malta faces challenges, one of them being to meet a minimum of 20% RES by 2020; however, RES is not an acronym I feel that is readily known by the public, and this would be an integral definition to have spelled out in the abstract. I only say this because I cannot easily find a relevant definition of RES (Renewable Electricity Standard) on Google. I feel your project is engaging and impressively ambitious. Given the time we have in class, and that I do not currently have your working bibliography,I feel that the terrorism component is a bit extraneous to the engineering scope of the class. I mention this in light of the fact that it is not stated if and how engineering plays a role in preventing terrorism. In addition, perhaps providing a link to how Malta’s strategically powerful situation within the EU has perhaps led to this nation being able to reach its RES requirement by 2020 in stride.
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