
Economics of the European Union
Program: Administration in International Organizations
ECTS: 3
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Jarosław Kundera
Email: jaroslaw.kundera@uwr.edu.pl
Type: Optional
Level: Advanced
Personal information:
https://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/user/12113
Lecture
Number of hours: 2h X 15 weeks = 30 hours (1 semester)
Contents:
1. Concept of European integration
2. The customs union and free trade area
3. Trade creation versus trade diversion
4. Rules of European single market.
5. European standardization
6. Principles of public procurements in the single market
7. Rules of competition in the EU
8. Free migration of people in the single market.
9. Free capital mobility and foreign direct investment
10. Services in the European single market
11. Regional Policy and Structural Funds of the EU
12. European Monetary Integration and convergence criteria
13. Optimum currency area. Benefits and costs of Euro
14. Causes of Euro crisis and methods of its overcoming
15. Common transportation policy
16. Common Agricultural Policy
17. The EU budget.
18. The tax harmonization between the EU’ partners
19. Cases and effects of Brexit.
20. The EU in the global economy.
Recommended reading:
Richard Baldwin, Charles Wyplosz, The Economics of European Integration, New York 2006
Athina Zervoyianni, George Argiros, George Agiomirgianakis, European Integration, New York 2006
J. Kundera, Poland in the Processes of European Integration, Warsaw 2014
J. Kundera, The crisis in the euro area, Warsaw 2017.