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The Project Consortium members Programme POGESTEI Curricula Documentation
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Module 4:
The EU trade policy is the cornerstone of the EU
integration as it is a prerequisite of the single market and its
competitiveness with its effects to all the EU member states. The
main intention of the course is to explain the core of the EU trade
policy and its interaction with the World, i.e. EU trading partners.
The basic of trade policies are explored in the initial stage of the
course, including the economics of international trade and the
international institutional settings. Students are then introduced
to the fundamentals of the EU trade policy, including its history,
its aims and its main mechanisms (including tariffs, non-tariff
barriers, anti-dumping policies, safeguards, state aid and
competition policy). Specific trade policies of the EU are explored
within the framework of the relations between the EU and the WTO,
emphasizing the Doha Development Agenda (Doha round) controversies,
in which the EU protectionism in some of areas of trade policy
provided to be one of the main obstacles for the successful
conclusion of the Doha round. Furthermore, specific EU trade policy
are thoroughly explored in the case of the USA (including recent EU
v. US trade conflicts) and in the case of China (including recent
anti-dumping cases). Students are introduced to the EU preferential
trade agreements, their both economic and political rationale and
enforcement mechanisms. Finally, the EU history of trade disputes
and the mechanism that have been used for their settlement are
reviewed. EU NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY AND LAW
The course deals with a complex issue: the
policy and relations of the EU with its neighbors, i.e. the counties
in the geographical area of Eastern Europe (Russian Federation,
Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova), the so-called Western Balkan countries
(Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia - FYROM, Monte
Negro and Serbia) and the Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt,
Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, The Palestinian Authorities and
Syria). The relations of EU with its neighborhood represent a basic
political, socio-economic, strategic and security issue for the EU.
It is closely inter-related with the "EU trade policy and the
world", the "Common foreign, security and defence policy of the EU"
and the "Geopolitical perspectives and consequences of the EU
enlargement". The course represents in fact the basic element of all
the mentioned "foreign relations" of the EU. GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE EU ENLARGEMENT
This course is designed to provide students with
an in-depth knowledge of the geopolitical perspectives and
consequences of the EU enlargement towards the applicant countries
and EU as a whole. New political, economic and social issues has
been raised by the rapid and enormous EU enlargement within less
than a decade, and the fact that the applicant countries are
numerous and diverse. Therefore, this course should develop
students' capabilities to understand different issues, such as the
long term economic and geopolitical interests in the EU, the nature
of EU borders, the process of negotiation, the degree of the growing
regional gaps in Europe, the impact of migration, the benefits and
disadvantages of the EU enlargement, and the consequences of
non-enlargement in the near future. EU COMMON FOREIGN, SECURITY AND DEFENSE POLICY
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