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Kar

Társadalomtudományi Kar

Szervezet

TÁTK Nemzetközi és Európai Tanulmányok Tanszék

Kód

IRB113

Cím

Decision-making in the European Union

Tervezett félév

Tavaszi

Meghirdetve

2024/25/2

ECTS

4

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

This course gives an introduction into the theory and practice of the European Union’s public policy, institutional and decision-making systems and their practical functioning, and the basics of interest representation mechanisms on EU level.

Tantárgy tartalma

1. Course introduction 2. Objectives and milestones in European integration 3. The nature of the European Union; the nature of EU public policy 4. The European Union and its Member States 5. The Treaties (TEU, TFEU) and the ordinary revision procedure 6. Accession and withdrawal 7. The basics of EU law; basic principles in EU law-making 8. The European Council; the European Commission 9. The co-legislators: the Council (of the European Union) and the European Parliament 10. EU legislative procedures since the 1950s 11. The ordinary legislative procedure; the consent procedure 12. Legitimacy and democracy in the EU 13. The basics of the EU budget 14. EU external action and its institutions 15. The basics of EU interest representation

Számonkérés és értékelés

Each student will sit the end-of-semester written final exam. The grade of the final exam will be the final grade in the semester. The final exam covers all the topics discussed in class and/or in the above required readings. Students will receive detailed information, guidance and instructions regarding the final exam in the course of the semester, both in class and via CooSpace.

Irodalomjegyzék

Day 1 Patel, Kiran Klaus: European Regional Integration from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century.  In Ramona Coman – Amandine Crespy – Vivien A. Schmidt (eds.): Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union. Cambridge: University Press, 2020. 35-53 Young, Alasdair – Christilla Roederer-Rynning: The EU Policy Processes in Comparative Perspective. In Helen Wallace – Mark. A. Pollack – Christilla Roederer-Rynning – Alasdair R. Young (eds.): Policy-Making in the European Union. 8th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2020. 43-66 Day 2 Treaty Articles: TEU 1, 2, 7, 48 (1-5), 49, 50 Laffan, Brigid: Member States. In Daniel Kenealy – John Peterson – Richard Corbett (eds.): The European Union. How Does it Work?  5th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2018. 75-97 Nugent, Neill: The Government and Politics of the European Union. 8th ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 111-125 [Treaties and the Integration Process] Sedelmeier, Ulrich: Enlargement. Widening Membership, Transforming Would-be Members? In Helen Wallace – Mark. A. Pollack – Christilla Roederer-Rynning – Alasdair R. Young (eds.): Policy-Making in the European Union. 8th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2020. 440-468 Day 3 Treaty Articles: TEU 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and TFEU 2, 3, 4, 6, 288 Corbett, Richard – Peterson, John – Kenealy, Daniel: The EU’s Institutions. In Daniel Kenealy – John Peterson – Richard Corbett (eds.): The European Union. How Does it Work?  5th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2018. 49-74 Nugent, Neill: The Government and Politics of the European Union. 8th ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 228-234 [The Sources of EU Law] Wallace, Helen – Christine Reh: An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy Modes. In Helen Wallace – Mark. A. Pollack – Christilla Roederer-Rynning – Alasdair R. Young (eds.): Policy-Making in the European Union. 8th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2020. 67-89 [The institutional design of the European Union] Day 4 Treaty Articles: TEU 9, 10, 11, and TFEU 289, 294 (1-14) Corbett, Richard: Democracy in the European Union. In Daniel Kenealy – John Peterson – Richard Corbett (eds.): The European Union. How Does it Work?  5th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2018. 146-164 Nugent, Neill: The Government and Politics of the European Union. 8th ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 329-344 [Making and Applying EU Legislation] Day 5 Treaty Articles: TEU 21-31, TFEU 312 Nugent, Neill: The Government and Politics of the European Union. 8th ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 265-274 [Interests] Peterson, John – Helwig, Niklas: The EU as a Global Actor. In Daniel Kenealy – John Peterson – Richard Corbett (eds.): The European Union. How Does it Work?  5th ed. Oxford: University Press, 2018. 193-215 The EU budget at a glance. European Commission, May 2019. Available online at: file:///C:/Users/zolta/Downloads/the%20eu%20budget%20at%20a%20glance-KV0219429ENN.pdf

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