Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Dirección e Xestión Pública

Grado en Dirección y Gestión Pública

Political Science: Institutions and Policies of the European Union

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to the current European Union	1.1 Basic Data on the EU 1.2 Comparative perspective
2. Political history of the European integration	2.1 Main historical phases of the process of integration (1950-2021) 2.2 The EU in the 21st century: perspectives and challenges
3. The European Union: concepts and theories	3.1 Theories on the European integration 3.2 What is the EU? Theoretical approaches 3.3 The EU how international organisation 3.4 The EU how political system. 3.5 The EU how system of governance. 3.6 Theories and policies
4. Institutions and organs of the European Union	4.1 Institutions 4.1.1 European Council. 4.1.2 Council of the European Union 4.1.3 European Commission 4.1.4 European Parliament 4.1.5 Court of Justice 4.1.6 Central Bank European 4.1.7 Other institutions: Court of Auditors 4.2 Organs of the EU. 4.3 The agencies of the EU 4.4 The European public function
5. The political process and public politics in the European Union	5.1 How does it decide in the EU? Ways and characteristics 5.2 legislative Procedure common: institutional interactions 5.3 Key Actors and informal dynamics. 5.4 Implementation of public politics and feedback
6. The legal acts of the European Union	6.1 Types of European legal laws: . 6.2 Types of secondary norms: regulations, derectives and decisions. 6.3 The jurisprudence of the Court of Justice. 6.4 Other types: international treaties and general principles. 6.5 The relation between the European Law and the state Law: direct effect and primacy. 6.6 The application of the European norms (reference)
7. Introduction to the European Policies	7.1 Introduction 7.2 Origins and historical evolution 7.3 Types of European policies 7.4 European Politics and state political systems: the **europeinization
8. Public politics: regulation, stabilisation and redistribution	8.1 Internal Market: regulation policy and polciy of competition 8.2 commercial Policy 8.3 Monetary policy 8.4 fiscal Policy 8.5 Agricultural Policy 8.6 regional and cohesion policy 8.7 Social Policy 8.8 Fishing Policy 8.9 environmental policy 8.10 Justice and Domestic affairs (asile, immigration, control of borders and police and judicial cooperation) 8.11 The European Union as a global actor: external politics and of European security 8.12 Other politics (reference)
9. The European budget	9.1 Historical Evolution 9.2 Income and expenditures 9.3 Pluriannual Financial Frame 9.4 Annual budgetary Procedure