Single Market; European Policies; Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion; Economic and Monetary Union.

Given the new challenges facing the European Union, the course aims to provide a comprehensive and dynamic approach of the European integration process. It seeks to encourage debate about the European situation, encouraging students to develop skills of analysis and reflection considering a set of economic variables, political and institutional sharp mutation.

The program of this course is focused on the process of European economic integration. Through a careful reading of the adopted bibliography, students shall have a clear identification with the content provided for this course, which can be divided in seven parts.

Main Bibliography

Azevedo, M. E. (2017). A (Re)Construção da Europa? A Dinâmica da Integração Económica e Política. Lisboa: Quid Juris.

Complementary Bibliography

Baldwin, R., & Wyplosz, C. (2019). The Economics of European Integration. New York: McGraw Hill.

Camisão, I., & Brandão, A. P. (2020). O Estado da União Europeia – Da(s) Crise(s) à Mudança? Lisboa: Livraria Petrony.

The future of European competitiveness – Report by Mario Draghi (2024):

https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/draghi-report_en

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 or 3 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a presence-based final exam (p-folio) in the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final presence-based exam (100%).