ECTS:

4

Code:

ΚΕ0Ε31

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Optional

Teaching Period:

Spring

Course Content:

The course examines the policies adopted and implemented by the European Union from the Treaty of Rome (1957) until today. The content and the significance of these policies is analysed; at the same time, the processes of policy formulation, impelmentation and assessment are being presented. Speceial emphasis is attributed on the study of the interaction between the European and national levels of governance, as well as on the examination of the role of the wider international context.

Course modules

1. Introduction: the EU political system and its policy processes
2. The single market
3. Competition policy
4. Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
5. The Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Policy on Security and Defense
6. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
7. Social and employment policies – “Europe 2020” strategy
8. The EU budget
9. Cohesion policy and the Structural Funds
10. The Common Agricultural Policy
11. Research and Development policy
12. Environmental and energy policy
13. ΕU Enlargement

Upon the successful completion of the course, students will: - gain an understanding of the different modes of interaction between national, European and other international institutions during the formulation, adoption, and implementation of specific policies - comprehend the opportunities and limitations relating to policy-making that are being posed by the participation of a country in the EU - be in the position to study in depth specific aspects of the main policies co-determined by the European Union