Governing EU Policies and Contemporary Challenges
Full course description
This course will help students to familiarize themselves with evidence-based research and academic state of the art EU public policy debates and contemporary challenges, such as digitalisation and maintaining responsible climate policies. The course covers key policy domains of European integration, such as Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the budget of the European Union, as well as topical areas of policy innovation and change, such as the EU digital single market, the green transition, and the (new) EU industrial policy. The course also introduces new developments in EU public policy, such as the European Green Deal and NextGenerationEU. These are important for MA EPA students to understand comprehensively, as they generate advocacy efforts by public, private, and civil society actors.
Course objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of evidence-based research and academic state of the art EU public policy debates on contemporary challenges;
- apply knowledge and understanding of key economic domains of European integration, such as Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the budget of the European Union, and the EU digital single market that have to do with managing important ongoing contemporary challenges;
- formulate judgments and communicate one’s understanding and evaluation of key EU policies and financial instruments, such as the European Semester, the European Green Deal, and NextGenerationEU;
- learn how to update one’s knowledge of the latest debates in the studied area and keep up with the state of the art.
Recommended reading
- Buti, M. and Fabbrini, S. (2023). Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?, Journal of European Public Policy 30(4), 676-695, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2141303
- Di Carlo, D. and Schmitz, L. (2023) Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market, Journal of European Public Policy, 30(10), 2063-2096, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2202684
- Jones, E., Kelemen, R.D., and Meunier, S. (2021). Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(10), 1519-1536, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2021.1954068
- Moschella, M., Quaglia, L., & Spendzharova, A. (Eds.) (2023). European Political Economy: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Issues. (First ed.) Oxford University Press. The New European Union Series.
- Schelkle, W. (2017). The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity. Understanding the Euro Experiment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.