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Economics of European Integration

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 114-0450/01
Abbreviation EEI
Course title Economics of European Integration
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator Ing. Boris Navrátil, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. General Theoretical Foundations of European Integration - Definitions, Motives, Forms. Bela Balassa and his contribution.
2. The development and stages of European economic integration since World War II, its current state and perspectives.
3. Economic governance - definitions, principles, applications in the European Union.
4. Common economic policy approaches to tackling the global financial and economic crisis, transforming governance in Europe.
5. Anti-crisis measures and their impact in selected European economies. European semester. Warning mechanism against macroeconomic imbalances. In-depth reviews.
6. Macroeconomics of monetary integration, crisis of the European Monetary Union and its solution. Bank Union, Union of Securities.
7. Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union - Sharing Fiscal Responsibility. Fiscal Union.
8. Microeconomics of European Integration - Internal Policies of the European Union - Structure, Objectives, Tools, Need for Reforms.
9. The internal market of the European Economic Area, the anti-competitive economy - competition policy and consumer protection policy.
10. Microeconomic policies of the European Union - commercial, agricultural, fisheries.
11. Microeconomic policies of the European Union - transport, energy, environmental protection.
12. Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union. EU Cohesion Policy.
13. Regional aspects of structural policy in the European Union - use of structural and investment funds.
14. Challenges of the expanding European Union in the context of deepening globalization. European Neighborhood Policy.

E-learning

Kurs je podporován pomocí LMS Moodle.
https://lms.vsb.cz/

Literature

BALDWIN, Richard and Charles WYPLOSZ. The Economics of European Integration. 6th edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2021. ISBN 978-1526847218 .
CINI, Michelle a Niéves PÉREZ-SOLÓRZANO BORRAGÁN. European Union Politics. Oxford: University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-870893-3 .
LELIEVELDT, Herman a Sebastian PRINCEN. The Politics of the European Union. Cambridge: University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-107-54490-1.

Advised literature

FABBRINI, Sergio. Which European Union? Cambridge: University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-107-50397-7.
RITZEN, Jo. A Second Chance and Legal Perspectives of the European Union. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-57722-7.
THEODORE, J., THEODORE, J. and SYRRAKOS, D. The European Union and the Eurozone under Stress. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-52291-3.