The aim:
1. Student acquires basic knowledge in the field of international economic integration.
2. Student assesses the current state of European integration and explains the course of this process in various member states.
3. Student is able to indicate what conditions must be met by an economic entity operating in the single internal market.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Student learns about the forms of international economic integration.
2. Student learns the dominant theories of economic integration.
3. Student learns about the integration process within the European economic communities and the EU.

Acquired skills:
1. Student assesses the state of construction of the single internal market.
2. Student assesses the possibilities of creating an economic and monetary union in all EU countries.
3. Student compares the state of the economies of EU member states.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student is able to indicate what requirements products and services should meet in the single internal market.
2. Student is able to explain what procedures products and services are subject to in the single internal market.
3. Student is able to determine what funds a farmer in the EU countries can benefit from under the common agricultural policy.

Course contents: 
1. The concept of European business.
2. The basic data of european business.
3. The european business in the single market. European standardisation. Rules of public procurements. Tax harmonisation.
4. Free migration of factors of production ( labour, capital, services).
5. Opitmum currency area and the Euroepan Monetary Union. Crisis in the euro area and methods of its overcoming.
6. The EU Regional policy and Structural Funds for SME.
7. The EU competition rules for european busines.

Recommended reading: 
1. The Economics of European Integration, R. Baldwin, Ch. Wyplosz, . New York 2006.
2. The Economics of European Integration. Theory, Practise, Policy, R.Molle, . Darmouth 1999.

Additional reading: 
1. Poland in the Process of European Integration, J.Kundera, . Warszawa 2014.
2. The crisis in the euro area, J.Kundera, . Warszawa 2017.