Postgraduate Certificate European Policy Making

Objectives

By the end of the course students should be able to:

Identify the most important historical moments of European integration and understand their impact on the process;
Understand the composition and functioning of the main EU institutions and their role in the decision-making process;
Understand the various stages of the EU decision-making process and the involvement of the various actors;
Understand the principles and characteristics of EU law and its application in the various EU policy areas;
Identify and use efficiently the main EU information sources as well as the main types of EU documents
Have a profound understanding of negotiations in the Council of the EU and the differences of decision-making between classical fields of EU competences and the Common Foreign and Security Policy

In the context of this programme, the following academic plans are offered:

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