European Economics: Integration, Monetary Union, & EU Policies

Cours L2 Eco et AES
Vanessa MICHEL
Janvier 2024
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European Economics

Outline
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Objectives of the course :
➔To present the main objectives, principles and steps of European
economic integration
➔To present and to discuss the main difficulties of EU Monetary Union
and economic policy
➔To present the main EU structural policies: competition policy,
innovation policy, environmental policy
Materials of the course :
➔PPT in English, summary versions on Moodle
➔Evaluation: QCM in English

Introduction
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Source: https://europa.eu/european-
union/documents-publications/slide-presentations_fr
Presentation of the
European Union:
446 million people –27
countries countries

EU Enlargement
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Fall of Berlin Wall –end of Communism
EU economic help begins: Phare
programme
Criteria set for a country to join the EU:
• democracy and rule of law
• functioning market economy
• ability to implement EU laws
Formal negotiations on enlargement begin
Copenhagen summit agrees to a big
enlargement of 10 new countries
Ten new EU members: Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia,
Slovenia
1989
1992
1998
2002
2004
2007 Bulgaria and Romania join the EU
2013 Croatia joins on 1 July