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Course Syllabus

2025/2026

EU Politics, Law and Institutions

Type: Mago-Lego
Delivered by: School of International Affairs
Where: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When: 1, 2 module
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Yulia Belous
Language: English
ECTS credits: 6
Contact hours: 64

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

The course “EU Politics, Law and Institutions” provides comprehensive knowledge of the set-up and functioning of the European Union, its evolution as well as formal and informal ways of interaction between member states and institutions. In particular, it introduces main institutions and bodies of the EU, their structures and modes of operation; it examines the decision-making in the EU as well as ways of representing interests and influencing decision-making; it studies the judicial system of the EU; it analyses the documents, related to the functioning of various EU institutions and bodies. The course applies neoinstitutional theoretical approaches to the study of the EU institutions, bodies and decision-making procedures as well as makes use of legal analysis. As a result it creates a firm basis for further independent work of students with the EU's institutions, structures and decision-making processes.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The goal of the course “EU Politics, Law and Institutions” is to provide a comprehensive knowledge of the set-up and functioning of the European Union, its evolution as well as formal and informal ways of interaction between member states and institutions.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Analyzes the composition and the way of formation of the European Commission and the principles of its operation.
  • Analyzes the main principles applicable to the EU.
  • Analyzes the problems and perspectives of flexible cooperation and its application.
  • Analyzes the role of the EU judicial system in the history of European integration.
  • Analyzes the two-pillar structure of EU external relations and assess its coordination
  • Assesses the European Court of Justice and its role in the construction of the single legal system.
  • Assesses the evolution of cooperation in the field of justice and home affairs.
  • Assesses the evolution of the institution and the effects of its reforms.
  • Assesses the possible problems and perspectives of the EU.
  • Assesses the role of the European Council in the management of the EU: theory and practice.
  • Defines the concept of EU and state policy of EU member states and their preferences
  • Defines the functional nature and the main principles of EU
  • Defines the functions of the European Parliament
  • Defines the main steps of the history of the Court of Auditors of the EU and the EU's Anti-Fraud Office and their main functions.
  • Distinguishes the evolution of the budgetary procedure: institutional aspects, from intergovernmental to communitarian type of decision-making.
  • Measures the main functions of Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions and their main principles.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Topic 1. Introduction. How does the EU work? How the EU can be explained using institutionalist theory?
  • Topic 2. Flexible integration
  • Topic 3. European Council
  • Topic 4. European Commission
  • Topic 5. European Parliament
  • Topic 6. Council of the European Union
  • Topic 7. EU Judicial system
  • Topic 8. Other Bodies of Control: Court of Auditors, OLAF, Ombudsman
  • Topic 9. Economic and Social Committee. Committee of Regions
  • Topic 10. EU Agencies and Network Governance
  • Topic 11. EU Budget Procedure and the Specifics of the Distribution of the EU Funds
  • Topic 12. Economic and Monetary Union: Institutions and Decision-Making
  • Topic 13. EU External Relations: Decision-Making
  • Topic 14. Migration, Sanction, Common Foreign and Security Policy (Strategic Autonomy of the EU)
  • Topic 15. The Future of the European Union
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Workshop work
  • non-blocking Essay
  • non-blocking Presentation
  • non-blocking Exam
    The retake procedure is similar to the handover procedure, it takes place as part of a regular retake or at other times of the additional session established by the rules of the Higher School of Economics.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2025/2026 2nd module
    0.1 * Essay + 0.6 * Exam + 0.12 * Presentation + 0.18 * Workshop work
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Энтин Л.М., Энтин М.Л. - Европейское право. Основы интеграционного права Европейского Союза и Евразийского экономического союза - 978-5-91768-956-2 - Юридическое издательство Норма - 2023 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/product/1938052 - 1938052 - ZNANIUM
  • Энтин, К. В. Право Европейского Союза и практика Суда Европейского Союза: Учебное пособие / Энтин К.В. - Москва :Юр.Норма, НИЦ ИНФРА-М, 2015. - 240 с. ISBN 978-5-91768-544-1. - Текст : электронный. - URL: https://znanium.com/catalog/product/478768

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Энтин, Л. М. Европейское право. Отрасли права Европейского Союза и Евразийского экономического союза : учебник / рук. авт. кол. и отв. ред. Л.М. Энтин, М.Л. Энтин. — Москва : Норма : ИНФРА-М, 2024. — 416 с. - ISBN 978-5-91768-957-9. - Текст : электронный. - URL: https://znanium.com/catalog/product/2091880

Authors

  • KOROLEVA LOLITA VITALEVNA
  • Belous Iuliia Aleksandrovna