Europe, Power and the Sea

Globalisation is leading to ever greater interdependence between populations and zones in the use or transformation of resources. Formerly these zones lay close together and concentrated around populations whose activities in situ covered overall requirements. The rarefaction of some resources and the significant growth of consumption, as well as the low cost of maritime transport and major price differences in labour have changed the old autarkic balance. Trade and flows are now factors of wealth

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU maritime security strategy approved http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-eu-maritime-security-strategy-approved/

ESO: Background information: Maritime surveillance: Joining forces with Member States for safer seas and oceans http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-maritime-surveillance-joining-forces-with-member-states-for-safer-seas-and-oceans/

ESO: Background information: Council conclusions on the Mid-Term Review of the EU’s Maritime Transport Policy until 2018 and Outlook to 2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-council-conclusions-on-the-mid-term-review-of-the-eus-maritime-transport-policy-until-2018-and-outlook-to-2020/

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