EU PUBLIC POLICIES

Learning Objectives

• POLICY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO EU
  This section of the course is designed to permit students to understand the European Union Public Policy Process and to be able to conceptualise the EU's policy in terms of policy analysis. It seeks to balance the theoretical and the immediately practical of the European Union Public Policy. It is focused on the analysis of the processes whereby public policies arise and are enacted in the European Union. It compares theories and models of policymaking and decision-making to illustrate the special requirements of the EU environment
  
  
• POLICY PROCESSES IN THE EU
  This module aims at analysing the EU policy process in terms of policy cycle. It examines the roles of various participants in the policy process: legislators, political parties, interest groups, administrators and administrative structures, citizens and the judiciary.
• EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY
  The course makes the student able to deal with the EU foreign policy-making process and issues
• EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY
  The course makes the student able to deal with the EU security policy-making process and issues

Detailed Course Content

• POLICY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO EU
  What the Political Science researches on European Union and why; Policy and Politics ; Policy Cycle ;
  Agenda Setting and Formulation
  
• POLICY PROCESSES IN THE EU
  Agenda Setting and Formulation in the EU; Decision Making Phase in the EU ; EU as a (multilevel) governance system?
• EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY
  the making of the European security and defence policies is analyzed and the relations of the European Union with the rest of the world are examined.