EU Institutions - JTM382

• Title: EU Institutions
• Czech title: Instituce Evropské unie
• Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: prof. JUDr. PhDr. Ivo Šlosarčík, Ph.D., LL.M.
• Teacher(s): prof. JUDr. PhDr. Ivo Šlosarčík, Ph.D., LL.M.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JTM022

Annotation

Course covers key EU institutions and major decision-making processes in the EU.

Last update: Šlosarčík Ivo, prof. JUDr. PhDr., Ph.D., LL.M. (01.02.2025)

Aim of the course

The course intents to provide an introduction into EU institutional design and decision-making procedures, based primarily on new institutionalism and tensions between formal and informal institutional rules.

 

 

Last update: Šlosarčík Ivo, prof. JUDr. PhDr., Ph.D., LL.M. (01.02.2025)

Course completion requirements

Final written exam. 3-4 question on trends in the EU institutional system, combining theory with practical examples. Time limit: 60 minutes.

Grading uses scale A-F, in accordance of the respective regulations adopted by the FSV.

More in SMĚRNICE S_SO_002: Organizace zkouškových termínů, kontrol studia a užívání klasifikace A–F na FSV UK.

Last update: Šlosarčík Ivo, prof. JUDr. PhDr., Ph.D., LL.M. (01.02.2025)

Literature

See moodle. https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3494

Last update: Šlosarčík Ivo, prof. JUDr. PhDr., Ph.D., LL.M. (01.02.2025)

Teaching methods

Lecture with elements of students` participation. Itsensive use of case-law and practical examples.

In-class teaching format.

 

Last update: Šlosarčík Ivo, prof. JUDr. PhDr., Ph.D., LL.M. (01.02.2025)

Syllabus

Structure of lectures/seminars

 

February 19, 2025: (Not so) new institutional architecture after Lisbon Treaty: distribution of power, institutional loyalties, left-overs, expectations and practice, flexibility during COVID19 crisis, Brexit adaptation.

February 26, 2025: European Council, Council(s) and rotating presidency. Czech presidencies 2009 and 2022

March 5, 2025: European Commission: New Political Leadership or Business as usual?

March 12, 2025: European Parliament: Ambitions versus legitimacy?

March 19, 2025: Creating New Institutions: European External Action Service

March 26, 2025: No class

April 2, 2025: Court of Justice of the EU: European Judicial Politics

April 9, 2025: Amending Founding Treaties (Or Not): states and citizens as treaty-masters?

April 16, 2025: EU legislative process

April 23, 2025: EU Institutional Reaction to Eurozone and Covid crises: Improvised institutionalism

April 30, 2025: EU Institutional Reaction to New Security Environment after 2022

May 7, 2025: Intra-State Adaptation to the EU Membership: Case of Czechia

May 14, 2025: Reserve

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: Šlosarčík Ivo, prof. JUDr. PhDr., Ph.D., LL.M. (01.02.2025)