Substantive Law of the European Union WP-PR-PmUE

Course contents:
1. Basic information on regional integration of states (comparison of integration processes in Europe and outside Europe: common features and differences). Conceptions of integration in substantive terms (concepts of economic and political integration; integration in the form of a free trade zone, customs union, common market, economic union and full integration; integration as an ever closer political union: from confederation to federation).
2 The concept of substantive law of the European Union. Basic characteristics of the substantive law of the European Union (economic and non-economic dimensions of integration; transnational and national character of economic situations; the concept of the scope of integration and the dynamics of its development). The influence of the institutional law of the European Union on its substantive law.
3. The scope of the substantive law of the European Union (typology of fields and their basic characteristics; nature of competences, method of integration used and instruments). Basic concepts of European Union substantive law: the concept of common space; the concept of networks; the concept of flexibility.
4. Basic principles of European Union substantive law (the principle of freedom and the principle of non-discrimination; horizontal clauses of substantive law coherence; the principle of protection of fundamental rights)
5 The concept of the internal market and market freedoms (free movement of goods, movement and establishment of persons, including citizenship of the Union; of labour, establishment, services, capital movements and payments)
6. A general overreview and analysis of the European Union's competition rules (cartel collusion, abuse of a dominant position, control of concentrations between undertakings, prohibition of State aid)
7 Selected policies and horizontal issues of the European Union (intellectual property; EU cyber space, energy union)
8. economic and monetary union (with particular reference to the distinction between countries in and outside the euro area)
9. the area of freedom, security and justice (crossing internal borders, Schengen area, visas, asylum, immigration, police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, judicial cooperation in civil matters)
10. the common commercial policy in the context of EU external action (the concept of external action; the specific nature of the common foreign and security policy)
11. the EU and crisis situations (the EU economic and financial crises, migrant crises, armed conflicts)