European Union Internal Market

Year
2014/2015
Course title
European Union Internal Market
Course number
222881 - 0233
Lecturer
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4 ECTS points
A. Course objective
The course is intended to get students acquainted with rules, ways and effects of functioning of the internal market of the
European Union (single European market). Teaching will focus on four freedoms of the internal market (freedom of the
movement of goods, persons, capital and services): their legal basis and practical operation. Importance of the Lisbon
Strategy for the functioning of the internal market. International competitiveness of the economies of EU Member States.
B. Course syllabus
European Market as a stage of European economic integration. Reasons and ways of the internal market
implementation and the legal basis. Economic benefits. Decision making in the EU and its impact on the effectiveness
of the internal market. Free movement of goods, capital, persons and services. Harmonization of taxes. Rules on
competition. Ways of reducing economic and social disparities on the internal market.
C. Educational outcome
Knowledge
Skills
Student knows the rules, legal basis, mechanism and economic results of functioning of the EU
internal market.
In particular, a student knows and understands ways in which four economic freedoms of the
Single European Market operate, as well as their consequences for EU Member States and for
external partners.
1. Student is able to analyze and critically assess the functioning of four freedoms of the EU
internal market.
2. Student is able to identify main principles and legal rules underlying the operation of
companies on the Single European Market.
3. The above mentioned skills make a student prepared to start his/her own business or to apply
for a job in companies engaged in economic operations on the EU internal market.
4. Student also is able to undertake a job in national and EU institutions involved in coordination
and monitoring of integration process in the EU.
Social competencies
1. Student acquires skills in team work (preparing presentations in teams).
2. Student acquires skills to prepare short and coherent presentation on a given question for
discussion.
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D. Semester time table
1
Common market as a stage of economic integration: reasons, benefits
2
Internal market of the EU: objectives and instruments, legal basis
3
Decision making in the EU and its impact on the effectiveness of the internal market
4
Free movement of goods in the EU: elimination of physical, technical and tax barriers, rules of
technical harmonization of goods, effects on partners in the EU and on the external countries
5
Free movement of goods in the EU - cont.
6
Instruments of the internal market protection in the EU against foreign competition
7
Tax harmonization on the Single European Market
8
Rules on competition on the Single European Market
9
Ways and results of reducing economic and social disparities on the Single European Market
(cohesion policy)
10
Ways and results of reducing economic and social disparities - cont.
11
Freedom of provision of services in the EU: rules, exceptions, transborder provision of services
and right of establishment
12
Free movement of capital in the EU: importance of the common currency for the competitiveness
of the economies of EU Members
13
Free movement of persons (workers): coordination of social security systems, mutual recognition
of education diplomas and professional qualifications,
14
Importance of the Lisbon Strategy for the functioning of the EU internal market
15
International competitiveness of the economies of EU Members: factors and prospects for
changes.
E. Basic literature
1. El-Agraa A. M., The European Union: Economics and Policies, Cambridge University Press, 2011; 2. www.europa.eu
F. Supplementary literature
Moussis N., Access to European Union Law, Economics, Policies. 19th updated edition, Rixensart, 2011.
G. Author's most important publications concerning the offered course
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H. Numbers of required prerequisites
not required
I. Course size and mode
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c.d.European Union Internal Market
Full-time
Saturday-Sunday
Afternoon
Total:
30
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Seminar
30
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J. Final mark composition
traditional examination
40%
multiple choice examination
45%
report
15%
K. Foreign language requirments
English
L. Selection criteria
M. Methods applied
case studies
reports
discussions
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