Section outline

  • 1.

    Oct 2

    Intro / Integration Milestones 

    Student Team Presentation Suggestions:

    PRESENTATION TEAMS

    2.

    Oct 9

    Institutions and Policy-Making

    3.

    Oct 16 

    The Single Market

    Commission vs. Big Tech

    Ioana Dragut, Mara Stefanescu, Ivan Shuliak

    4.

    Oct 23  

    Agriculture (and Cohesion)

    Farmers and the Green Deal

    Desiree Blazier, Lena Heyes, Adelina Lysenko

    5.

    Oct 30 

    Economic and Monetary Union

    Greece (Italy, Spain) after the Eurozone Crisis

    Gaia Madejski, Sofia Benini and Emily Girard

    6.

    Nov 6 

    Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

    Fortress Europe, European Solidarity and Human Rights

    Karolina Cerna, Ondrej Kapralek,  Christopher Truax

    7.

    Nov 13

    Foreign, Security and Defence Policies

    EU Reacts to the Russian War against Ukraine

    Arturs Pilacis, Felix Steiner, Baptiste Le Foulgoc

    8.

    Nov 20 

    Trade, Development, Enlargement

    The Future of EU Enlargement

    Mary Katherine Mckenzie, Ema Loziova, Semov Marko 

    9.

    Nov 27 

    Brexit

    Brexit - 5 Years On

    Elly Duhrkoop, Kristyna Anna Korcova and Thilo Weggert

    10.

    Dec 4 

    EU and the Member States

    Hungary - The Outlier

    Janina Ormanova, Minh Pham and Lilly H. Nagy

    11.

    Dec 11

    Democratic Legitimacy and EU Citizens

    Euroscepticism and the Rise of Far-right Parties

    Mihailo Dzakovic, Vlad-Alexandru Ambrus, and Student 3

    12.

    Dec 18

    Future of EU Integration

    Future (Dis-)integration Options

    Maksymilian Wolszczak, James Fleuette, Milan Kobor

     

     

     

    EU and the US

    Malin Raaf, Paula Diaz and Tatiana Nikoletti

     

     

     

    EU and its Neighbourhood: Eastern Partnership and Union for the Mediterranean

    Maksym Loharzhevskyi, Madina Alizada, Elena Slijper

     

     

     

    EU's Green Deal: Going Green or Going Bust?

    Filip Gartner, Florian Bohun, Marek Olma

     

     

     

     EU Energy policy or EU and China? 

    Student 1, Student 2 and Student 3

    You can contact your team mates using the universal FSV addresses: name.surname@fsv.cuni.cz (Gmail will fill in automatically).

    Please, see me after class or email me - daniela.lences@fsv.cuni.cz - which topic you'd like to present on! It's a rough "umbrella" of a topic with wiggle room for specific cases; let's consult them in the run-up to the class.

    All classes will take place in person, in Jinonice campus - room C 122    THURSDAYS     15:00 - 16:20 

    Consultation hours: Thursdays 12:30 - 14:00, room C 514; let me know you'll be coming at: https://konzultace.fsv.cuni.cz/teacher/detail?cuniPersonalId=41630906 

        or online consults outside office hours via Google Hangouts (email me so that we can set up a time/date)

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    FINAL POSITION PAPER DEADLINES here via Moodle assignment (scroll all the way down)

    5 January 23:59 (everyone going to the February state exams in need of a grade by 9th January)

           ...you can keep uploading your papers anytime in-between, I'll be grading them in bulks intermittently

    8 February 23:59 (last chance)

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    Compensate fast and unstructured information of social media with reading and boost your critical thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jW8MOxIKY