Guia docente 2020_21 Facultade de CC. Sociais e da Comunicación

Political Science: Institutions and Policies of the European Union

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Approach to the current European Union	1.1 Basic Data on the EU 1.2 Panoramic comparative
2. Political history of the European integration	2.1 Main historical phases of the process of integration (1950-2020) 2.2 The EU in the 21st century: perspectives of future
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 as international organisation 3.3 The EU as political system. 3.4 The EU as system of governance.
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 policy-making process and public policies in the European Union	5.1 How does it decides in the EU? Ways and characteristics 5.2 Ordianry Legislative Procedure: institutional interactions 5.3 key Actors and informal dynamics. 5.4 Implementation of policies
6. The norms of the European Union	6.1 Types of European norms: Original and derivative Law. 6.2 Types of derivative norms: regulations, directives and decisions. 6.3 The jurisprudence of the Court of Justice. 6.4 Other types: international treaties and general principles of the law. 6.5 The relation between the European Law and the state: direct effect and primacy. 6.6 The application of the European norms (reference)
7. Approximation to the public politics of the European Union	7.1 General Introduction: the *europeanization 7.2 Internal Market: regulatory polciy and political of competition 7.3 Trade Policy 7.4 Monetary policy 7.5 Fiscal Policy 7.6 Agricultural Policy 7.7 Fisheries Politics 7.8 Regional and Cohesion Polices 7.9 Social and employment polices 7.10 Environmental Policy 7.11 Justice and domestic affairs: immigration, control of borders and police and judicial cooperation 7.12 External Policy and of European security 7.13 Other politics: consumers, energy, transports, telecommunications, health, alimentary security...
8. The European budget	8.1 historical Evolution 8.2 Income and costs 8.3 Multianual financial Frame 8.4 budgetary annual Procedure