Master in European Law and Policies (Academic Year 2012/2013)

History and Institutions of the European Union

Credits: 12

Content language:English

Course description

The history of the process of integration from the immediate post-war period to the present days. Reflections on the Union’s future prospects. The section about the Institutions shows the structural dynamics of the European Union, from the political and legal point of view. We examine the European institutions, their individual duties, the institutional balance and the most important processes of the European Union.

Prerequisites

Objectives

Supplying the student with basic notions about the historical and political evolution of the European integration process and about its Institutions.

Program

The European Union law is analized in this module as a legal system, under the perspective and methodology of the comparative law. The module analizes the dynamics in the emerging European democracy, the main aspects of decision-making process and the main innovations brought by the Treaty of Lisbon.

Book

Exercises

Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching

Pier Virgilio Dastoli

Video professors

Prof. Filippo Maria Pandolfi - Già vice – Presidente della Commissione europea dal 1989 al 1994 (Belgio) Membro del Parlamento italiano

Prof. Pier Virgilio Dastoli - Direttore della Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea dal 2003 al 2009 Presidente del Consiglio Italiano del Movimento Europeo (CIME) (Italia) Consigliere principale della Commissione europea (Belgio)

Prof. Romano Prodi - Già Presidente Della Commissione Europea Dal 1999 Al 2004 (Belgio). Già Presidente Del Consiglio Dei Ministri Italiano Dal 1996 Al 1998 E Dal 2006 Al 2008.

Prof. Rocco Cangelosi - Già Consigliere Presso La Presidenza Della Repubblica Italiana

Prof. Franco Frattini - Già Ministro Degli Affari Esteri Del Governo Italiano Dal 2008 Al 2011. Già Vice Presidente Della Commissione Europea (Belgio)

Prof. Mario Monti - Già Presidente Del Consiglio Dei Ministri (Italia). Già Commissario Europeo (Belgio). Presidente Dell’università “Bocconi” (Italia)

List of lessons

• Lesson n. 1: The origin of the idea of Europe		Rocco Cangelosi
• Lesson n. 2: The History of European Union as seen by its Actors: The History of the European Communities 1947/1979		Filippo Maria Pandolfi
• Lesson n. 3: The History of European Union as seen by its Actors: The History of the Communities and the Birth of the European Union 1979/1997		Pier Virgilio Dastoli
• Lesson n. 4: The History of European Union as seen by its Actors: The History of the European Union from 1998 up to Today. Future Prospects		Romano Prodi
• Lesson n. 5: The History of European Union as seen by its Actors: The European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice		Franco Frattini
• Lesson n. 6: The History of European Union as seen by its Actors: Common Foreign and Security Policy		Filippo Maria Pandolfi
• Lesson n. 7: The History of European Union as seen by its Actors: The Single Currency		Mario Monti
• Lesson n. 8: The evolution of the decision-making process of the European Institutions		Rocco Cangelosi
• Lesson n. 9: The structure of the Lisbon treaty		Rocco Cangelosi
• Lesson n. 10: The Institutional framework of the EU: the European Council and the Council of the EU		Rocco Cangelosi
• Lesson n. 11: The Institutional framework of the EU: the European Parliament and the role of the National Parliaments		Rocco Cangelosi
• Lesson n. 12: The Institutional framework of the EU: the Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union		Rocco Cangelosi
• Lesson n. 13: The Institutional framework of the EU: the European Central Bank, the Committee of Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee		Rocco Cangelosi

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Master in European Law and Policies (Academic Year 2012/2013)

History and Institutions of the European Union