Week 4: January 28 & 30

Eurosclerosis

Topics: Lecture 1, Lecture 2 and Website and Sources

• Economic Stagnation and Non-Tariff Barriers
• The Crisis over the Budget
• Achievements: Cassis de Dijon Court Case, European Parliament, Enlargement
• EU Institutions: The European Parliament
• EU Legislative Process
• Website and Sources: Official Journal and EUR-LEX

Assigned Readings:

Dinan, Ever Closer Union, chs. 3, 9

The ABC of Community Law, pp. 32-38

Assignments:

• Choose topic area for short paper (1 of the following 3 areas: Economic Policy, Social Policy, External Relations and Internal Security)
• Do a test search on the topic in EUR-LEX. The latter can be easily accessed through "Documents" Quick Links on the course website home page.

Resources:

• Middlemas, Keith. Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of the European Union, 1973-1995
• Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation-State (1992)
• Urwin, Derek . The Community of Europe: A History of European Integration since 1945