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    1.

    Feb 22nd

    Student Presentation Topics

    Presenting TEAMS

    2.

    Feb 29th

    3.

    Mar 7th

    Commission vs. Big Tech (Google, FB)

     Jami, Pouran

    4.

    Mar 14th

    Food Quality and Safety

     Vuk, Akshat, Leonardo

    5.

    Mar 21st

    Germany (or Greece) in the Eurozone Crisis

     Emile, Lukas B., Elizaveta

    6.

    Apr 4th

    Migration Crisis

     Alba, Sebastian, Alexia D.

    7.

    Apr 11th

    EU relations with superpowers

      Justin, Yin, Elizabeth

    8.

    Apr 18th

    EU Enlargement

      Nikol, Vladyslav, Mathilda

    9.

    Apr 25th

    The Green Deal

      Tereza C, Nikoloz, Samira

    10.

    May 2nd

    Euroscepticism

      Vitek, Adela, Daniel

    11.

    May 9th

    Blame It on Brussels   

      Finn, Zeno, Maxima  

    12.

    May 16th

    The “Idea of Europe”

      Anja, Mariam, Jakub 

    13.

    May 23rd 

    If needed 3 more presentations (9 more students)
         EU and Russia's War on Ukraine:                 Marta, Zhasmin, Oryna
         Citizens and the EU:                                     Malak, Adrian, Tom
         EU Reform in the wake of enlargement       ____, ____, ____
         Soft Power EU?                                             Sylwia, Weronika, Subash

    Please email me - 41630906@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 B 316    THURSDAYS     12:30-13:50

    Consultation hours - before class from 11:30, room C 514 (ideally email me before that you're coming)

  • Session 1: February 22 - Course Introduction, Syllabus, and EU Milestones

  • Session 2: Febryary 29 - Lisbon Treaty Legal Framework, EU Institutions, and the Policy-Making Processes

  • Session 3: March 7 - The Single Market

  • Session 4: March 14 - Agriculture and Cohesion

  • Session 5: March 21 - Economic and Monetary Union

  • ~ ~ ~ March 28 - NO CLASS - Dean's Day Off ~ ~ ~

  • Session 6: April 4 - Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

  • Session 7: April 11 - Foreign Policy, Security, Defence

  • Session 8: April 18 - Trade, Development, Enlargement

  • Session 9: April 25 - Energy and Environment

  • Session 10: May 2 - Democratic Legitimacy and EU Citizens

  • Session 11: May 9 - EU and the Member States / Brexit

  • Session 12: May 16 - European Identity

  • (Session 13: May 23 - IF NECESSARY: more student presentations)

  • POLICY PAPER (Deadlines May 19th, June 16th, August 15th)

    Policy Paper (1500 - 2000 words; excl. references)

    Policy paper is a type of document which:

    • either evaluates impacts of a policy on a given actor, say a state, region or industry
    • or alternatively calls for a policy to be adopted to resolve an existing problem


    First, the paper needs to identify what is the problem.

    Example: The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is negatively affecting UK fishing business!

    Second, what is the policy and what is its impact?

    Example: The Withdrawal Agreement (WA) effectively removed UK from the EU, and the TCA rejected both UK membership in the common market as well as in the customs union; while there are no trade tariffs imposed in the TCA, the UK fishermen and exporters are suddenly faced with a wall of “non-tariff barriers” to trade resulting from EU food health and safety regulations as part of the common agricultural and common fisheries policies. They have to document now, that they comply with the EU rules.

    Third, what is the context?

    Example: Based on comparison of January 2020 and January 2021 data – British fish export to EU has dropped by X percent. British fishermen export XY percent of catch to EU common market, specifically X% to France, Y% to Germany and Z% to Poland. The industry employs so and so many workers and generates 0.01% of British GDP. Fishing business is typically medium sized with only a small percentage of companies employing more than 200 workers… As a renegotiation of the TCA is not likely in the near future, the fishing industry will be impacted for the foreseeable future.

    Fourth, what do you recommend to alleviate or resolve that problem? Pros and cons?

    Example: State support for fishing industry (Can UK afford it? For how long?). Administrative help by the state (training for clerical workers? How feasible?). Expectations of fishermen moving to a different industry? Can UK help to create any new jobs? Would Conservative government even consider something like this? Can fishermen diversify markets (where? Trying to export fish to Norway is like bringing owls to Athens...). Or just do it and relocate company to EU (as advised by government).

    Conclude.


    A policy paper is a “practical” paper (not an academic paper) so it does not include theory. This however does not mean references are omitted – references are needed to point the reader to used data/statistics or legal documents.

    Suggestions where to get inspired: https://politicalscienceguide.com/home/policy-paper/

    …or in the many think tanks listed on page 2 of this syllabus

    Assessed area

    Percentage

    Structure: identification of a problem, identification of impact, identification of local context, recommendation, conclusion.

    10%

    Impact: how is the (lack of) policy affected the sector?

    10%

    Context: national, regional, citizen or industry environment hit by a policy (needing a policy)

    15%

    Recommendations: pros and cons

    25%

    Quality sources need to be properly referenced.

    10%

    TOTAL

    = 70%


    Cheating, copy pasting stuff without proper reference will not be tolerated, seriously! See section on plagiarism below.

    Using AI without acknowledgement is not allowed!

    Submitted papers will be processed via Turn It In originality check software.


    To prevent any misunderstanding PLAGIARISM is defined as:

    “the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.” - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd Edition, Random House, New York, 1993

    Turnitin’s White Paper ‘The Plagiarism Spectrum’1 identifies 10 types of plagiarism ordered from most to least severe:

    1. CLONE: An act of submitting another’s work, word-for-word, as one’s own.
    2. CTRL-C: A written piece that contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations.
    3. FIND–REPLACE: The act of changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source in a paper.
    4. REMIX: An act of paraphrasing from other sources and making the content fit together seamlessly.
    5. RECYCLE: The act of borrowing generously from one’s own previous work without citation; to self-plagiarize.
    6. HYBRID: The act of combining perfectly cited sources with copied passages—without citation—in one paper.
    7. MASHUP: A paper that represents a mix of copied material from several different sources without proper citation.
    8. 404 ERROR: A written piece that includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources
    9. AGGREGATOR: The “Aggregator” includes proper citation, but the paper contains almost no original work.
    10. RE-TWEET: This paper includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text’s original wording and/or structure.

    Useful text, Foltynek 2020: How to Avoid Plagiarism (A Student Handbook)