1. Europe and its historic integration projects. Humanism, Illustration, Romanticism and nationalism
1. Introductio
2. Europe in its beginnings and in its diversity
3. European legal cultures
4. Historical projects of european political integratio
4.1. The House of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire Austriae est imperare orbe universe
5. Humanis
5.1. Christian Humanism and the Protestant Reformatio
6. The enlightenment
7. Romanticis
8. Nationalis
9. Conclusions
10. Practice
11. Self-evaluation proposal
12. Literature
2. The great war and its consequences: pan-europe and briand project (1914 – 1939)
1. Introductio
2. Europe at the crossroad: world war
2.1. Antecedents and war evolutio
3. Interwar years: international panorama
4. Pan-europe
5. Brian project
Section I
Section II
Section III
Section IV
6. Conclusions
7. Practice
8. Self-evaluation proposal
9. Literature
3. Pro-european projects during world war II (1939-1945)
1. Summary
2. Historical perspective
3. European pacts
3.1. Franco-British Unio
3.2. The Reich and its plan for a United Europe
3.3. Atlantic Charter
4. The different pro-european projects during the war
5. The end of the war and the framework of a common european project
6. Conclusions
7. Practical exercise
8. Self-assessment
9. Bibliography
4. The european community: The creation of the european coal and steel community and the failure of the european defence community (1945-1954)
1. Introductio
2. Post-war europe
2.1. Europeanism in post-war Europe
2.2. The Marshall Pla
2.3. The Western European Unio
2.4. The Hague Congress and the birth of the Council of Europe
3. The origins of community europe
3.1. The Schuman Declaratio
3.2. The ECSC Treaty
3.3. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC
4. The first failure in european integratio
4.1. The European Defence Community (EDC)
5. Conclusions
6. Practice
7. Self-evaluation proposal
8. Literature
5. From the treaty of rome to the europe of homelands (1954-1963)
1. Introductio
2. The treaties of rome of 1957
2.1. The Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATO)
2.2. The Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC Treaty)
3. New requests for eu membership
4. Spain,s positio
5. Conclusions
6. Practice
Questions
7. Proposal for autoevaluatio
8. Bibliography
6. The community crisis (1963 – 1970)
1. Introductio
2. The british problem and the 1973 enlargement
3. Between nato and the western european unio
4. The extensions and the new treaties
5. Conclusions
6. Practice
7. Self-assessment proposal
8. Bibliography
7. The enlargement of the european communities and the european democratic space (1970 – 1979)
1. Introductio
2. The attempt to relaunch the integration process in the 1970S
2.1. The ending of the transitional period for the establishment of the common market and the financing of the Communities
2.2. The deepening of the integratio
2.3. The first enlargement: the Europe of the ‘nine’
2.4. Institutional developments
2.5. Relevant case-law of the Court of Justice adopted during the period examined
3. Conclusions
4. Practice
5. Self-assessment
6. Bibliography
8. The europe of the single act (1979 – 1986)
1. Introductio
2. Background to the single european act
2.1. The intergovernmental experiences of the period
2.2. The leading role of the new European Parliament
3. The previous process and the making of the single european act
3.1. Previous work for the Single European Act
3.2. The making of the Single European Act
4. Scope and content of the single european act
5. Conclusions
6. Practice
7. Self-evaluatio
8. Bibliography
9. The end of the european division and the treaty on european union (1986-1992)
1. Introductio
2. On the accession of spain and portugal to the european communities
3. From the fall of the berlin wall to the washington consensus
3.1. The beginning of the great enlargement
3.2. German reunificatio
3.3. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia
4. Treaty of maastricht (1992)
4.1. The complex process of ratificatio
4.2. The main changes and developments
5. Conclusions
6. Practice
7. Self-evaluation proposal
8. Literature
10. The transition from the single market to the economic and monetary union (1992 – 2000)
1. Introductio
2. The implementation of the economic and monetary union (EMU) In the maastricht treaty or treaty on european union (TEU)
3. The institutions of the emu: the european central bank (ECB), and the european system of central banks (ESCB)
4. Beyond the EMU. The social commitment in the maastricht treaty. Community charter of the fundamental social rights of workers (CFCW) And protocol (NO. 14) On social policy
5. The treaty of amsterdam (TA). Institutional issues. Social issues. The strengthening of the EMU: Stability and growth pact (SGP). Enhanced cooperatio
6. Conclusions
7. Practical activity
8. Self-assessment
9. Bibliography
11. From nice to lisbon: The great enlargement and the failure of the european constitution (2001-2009)
1. Introductio
2. The treaty of nice and the charter of fundamental rights of the european union
3. The “great enlargement”
4. The treaty establishing a constitution for europe
5. The solution to the impasse: A Reform treaty. The treaty of lisbo
6. Fundamental rights in the european union. The cfreu after the treaty of lisbon
7. Conclusions
8. Practical activity
9. Self-assessment
10. Bibliography
12. New challenges for the union: Economic crisis, Brexit and uncertainty on the threshold of the new decade
1. Uncertainty in the face of a new decade
2. The triad of balanced budget mechanisms: The esm, The revised sgp and the tscg
3. The suspension of the balanced budget rules. A paradigm shift?
4. Brexit
5. Conclusions
6. Practice
Answers
7. Self-assessment
Answers
8. Bibliography
13. The european union faced with the great challenges of the international order of the second decade of the 21st century
1. Introductio
2. The union in the face of this migratory crisis
2.1. The Externalization of Border Controls in the European Unio
2.2 The UE-Turkey Statement of 18 March 2016
3. The european union in the face of cimate change and sustainable development
3.1. The European Union in the face of Climate Change
3.2. The Union and the Sustainable Development
4. The response of the european union to the health crisis of COVID-19: A preliminary assessment