European Union

Course:
European Union
Course type:
Obligatory optional, general for Erasmus students
Semester:
Summer
Number of lectures /
seminars per week:
2/1
Number of credits:
4 ECTS
Course guarantor:
PhDr. Markéta Sanalla
Lecturer:
PhDr. Markéta Sanalla
Course completion:
Written and oral examination
Course objective: Course will clarify the role of the European Union not only in the EU
member states, but also policy and economy in the world order. Lectures will be divided into
several thematic areas. Individual blocks will explain the origins of the European
Communities, the theoretical and paradigmatic approaches to the development of EC / EU
institutional arrangements, instruments and arrangement of selected policies and methods of
decision making system in the present EU. Attention will be paid to current trends in the EU,
the euro area and the Community relations with other regions in the world
Lectures content:
1. The history of EC / EU and paradigms of development
a) The economic and political development of Europe and the world 1870 – 1950
b) Establishment of the Community and other institutional and contractual
development
c) Each wave of expansion of EC / EU
2. The institution of the EC / EU
a) The main EU institutions (European Commission, EU Council, European
Parliament, European Council)
b) Other institutions and important posts in the EU (Committee of the Regions,
European Economic and Social Committee, European Court of Auditors,
European Ombudsman, European Council President, Chairman of the
Commission, a representative for foreign relations, the role of the presiding
country)
3. The economy of the EC / EU
a) Building a common commercial policy
b) Common Agricultural Policy
c) Building a common currency
d) EU Budget
e) Regional policy
f) Promoting the interests in the EU
4. Interesting questions the current EU
a) EU energy policy
b) Relationship EC/EU and Turkey
c) Future of EU
Course requirements:
Presentation (in seminars) individually or in groups, test, written exam (open question - 4x
and 10x test questions)
Literature:
BOOKER, Christopher, NORTH, Richard. Skryté dějiny evropské integrace: od roku 1918
do současnosti. 1. vyd. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2006. 623 s. ISBN 80-7364-026-0.
Fiala, P., Pitrová, M.: Evropská unie. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2003.
ISBN 80-7325-015-2.
König, P., Lacina, L. a kol.: Rozpočet a politiky Evropské unie. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2004.
ISBN 80-7179-846-0.
LACINA, L. a kol. Měnová integrace: náklady a přínosy členství v měnové unii. Praha: C. H.
Beck, 2007. s. 538. ISBN: 978-80-7179-313-2.
Žídek, L. Dějiny světového hospodářství. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk,
s.r.o., 2007, 391 s. ISBN 978 – 7380-035-2.