EU Law

Course type

Compulsory

Study programme and level

Postgraduate, International management

Language

slovenščina

Lectures	Seminar	Tutorial	Other forms of study	Individual Work	ECTS
45		30		125	8

1. Historical Introduction

• Europe and the Peace of Westphalia
• Ideas of united Europe
• WWI
• Inter-war period
• WWII
• New attempts at European integration
• Treaty structure and landmark developments
• Deepening and widening of the integration
• What follows

2. Theories of European integration

• International theory
• Statist theory
• Sui-generis theories
• Utilitarian theories
• Neo-liberal intergovernmental theories
• Functional and neo-functional approaches
• Economic theories
• Political theories
• Supranationalism
• Federalism
• Constitutionalism
• a) Classical
• b) Reformed
• c) Constitutional pluralism
• EU as a union

3. EU as a community of Law

• Fundamental principles of EU Law
• Relationship between EU law and national law
• Response of national actors

4. Institutional perspective

• EU institutions
• Principles and institutional practice
• Principle of conferral
• Principle of subsidiarity
• Principle of proportionality
• Principle of loyalty

5. EU as a democratic polity

• Democracy in the EU
• Democratic deficit?
• EU citizenship

6. EU as an economic community

• Fundamental principles of the single market
• Recent developments

7. EU and international community

• Legal Aspects
• ECHR
• UN
• WTO
• Political Aspects
• Common foreign and security policy
• Perspectives and challenges
• Uniformity?
• Flexibility?
• Stagnation?
• Dissolution?