European Institutions and Policies

(2,5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The seminar aims at introducing the achievements and challenges of European integration. After a short presentation of the European history since WWII, it focuses on European institutions and their interactions, which will be affected by the Brexit. It then turns to European policies: did the European Union manage to achieve the single European market and to make the EU the most competitive and cohesive economy in the world? What are the achievements and challenges in European environmental policy and of the economic and monetary union? Is the European immigration Policy able to tackle the immigration crisis? What about the protection of human rights? What are the strengths and flaws of the EU's external action, as regards the trade, development, defense policies, which will be affected by the election of Donald Trump?