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Language, Culture and Economics - Fall 2 2008
European Integration I

45
Language Level: Taught In English
European Integration I
Language of Instruction: English
Course taken with: Primarily Local Students
Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain)

Course Description

Area of Study

Economics Courses with Spaniards

Hours & Credits

45

Hours of Instruction

3

Semester Credit Units

4

Quarter Credit Units

Prerequisites and Language Level

Taught In English
There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Overview

Advised previous requirements: Economic History

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION I

Unit 1: The European Union’s budget.
a) The evolution of the Community’s finances.
b) The drafting of the Community’s budget.
c) Sources of revenue.
d) Spending structure.
e) Budget reform in the Community, the budget balance in the Member States
and the financial perspectives of the European Union.

Unit 2: Economic freedoms and the internal market.
a) Basic economic freedoms and common policies.
b) The single market: its creation and impact.
c) The free movement of goods.
d) The free movement of labor.
e) The free movement of capital.
f) The freedom in establishing and providing services.

Unit 3: The competition policy.
a) Features of the competition policy: concentration, trade and deregulation in
Europe.
b) Enterprises and competition.
c) The Community’s policy towards enterprises and SMEs in particular.
d) Competition and the State.

Unit 4: The Community’s internal policies (I): energy, industrial and
technological policies.
a) The Community’s energy policy.
b) The community’s industrial policy and strategy.
c) The Community’s technological policy.

Unit 5: The Community’s internal policies (II): transportation,
environmental and consumer policies.
a) The Community’s transportation policy.
b) The Community’s environmental policy.
c) The Community’s consumer policy.

Unit 6: The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
a) Main features of the CAP.
b) Objectives and instruments of the CAP.
c) The CAP’s financing.
d) The CAP’s reform and its outlook.
e) The common fishing policy.