By the end of this course, students should be able to analyze critically the three sets of issues below:

-the political system of the EU or more precisely the ( multi-level) governance system of the EU which basically includes both the EU level and the national level as well interactions across these levels;

-the main changing political dynamics of these relations which has given rise to “policy without politics” at the European level and to “politics without policy” at the national level;

-the emerging European political order and the Euro-polity, and

-an understanding of how the Eurozone crisis, the migration crisis and the Brexir process influence European integration and the EU.