Lectures

Knowledge: Upon completion of the course, students: a) have a thorough understanding of the historical reasons for the formation of the European Union (EU), its fundamental characteristics, its purpose and values. b) have a thorough understanding of the institutional organization and functioning of the Council of Europe and other European organizations.

Skills: Students will be able to: a) organise and present analyses relating to European integration and the protection of human rights; b) analyse the main points of the challenges facing Europe and European states in the wider context of globalisation.

Competences: Students: (a) have an understanding of the historical background of the creation and the circumstances of the development of the EU and the Council of Europe, as well as of other European institutions; (b) understand the concept of competences, their attribution to the EU and the conditions of their implementation by the EU; (c) understand the complexity of the decision-making system and, in general, of the functioning of the EU; (d) understand the sources of EU law, both written and unwritten, and the difference between binding rule of law and soft law,) (e) elaborate on the relationship between national and supranational law and the rules of application and hierarchy between them, assess the importance of the protection of fundamental rights in Europe (both in the context of the Council of Europe and the EU); (f) understand the system of legal remedies before the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights; (g) understand the political role of the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. Further, h) have an understanding of the multi-level relationships that develop between the Member States of the European Union (EU), the EU and international organisations, private parties with the EU, i) understand institutional developments at European and national level, the impact of EU rules on Member States and businesses.

- - Putting knowledge into practice

- Analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

- Decision-making

- Working in an international environment

- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism

- Respect for the natural environment

- Social, professional, and ethical responsibility and gender sensitivity

- Critical and self-critical thinking

- Promotion of free, creative, and deductive thinking

Short Course Description: in the first part of the course, after an analysis of the concept of the international organization and a historical review of the evolution of the idea of European unification, the following are examined in particular: a) the rules of institutional Union law, with particular emphasis on the organizational and institutional framework of the European Union, the sources of Union law, its relations with the law of the Member States and the provision of legal protection by the Court of Justice and b) the rules of substantive Union law and in particular the legal framework of the European Union.

Part Two analyses: a) the organisation and functioning of the Council of Europe and b) the rules of the ECHR, with regard to the European protection of human rights.

Part Three examines the other forms of European cooperation in Europe (defence, economic, etc.).

The course is developed in 13 lessons:

1. Historical overview of European integration.

2. The individual forms of European cooperation

3. The Council of Europe (organisation and functioning)

4. The European Convention on Human Rights

5. Fundamental values and principles of the institutional system and the Union's legal order. The Member States, EU citizenship.

6. The EU institutions.

7. System of division of competences (EU & Member States).

8. The development of EU law rules and the international competences of the Union

9. The Union's means of action: budget and staff

10. Forms of control: political, legal, judicial

11. Union law: sources and relationship with national law of the Member States

12. Union law on the internal market and competition (1)

13. Union internal market and competition law (2)

e-class (Traditions and consolidation exercises)

E-mail

Written Examination with Multiple-choice Questions (Formative, Summative)

- Written test with extended and/or short-answer questions (Inclusive)

- Written test with Problem Solving (Inclusive)

* Intermediate written examination (progress) in part of the material, which is counted (25%) if the final grade is at least five (5).

1.Kalavros (G.-E. F.), Georgopoulos (T.), The Law of the European Union - Volume I (Institutional Law), Nomiki Bibliothiki, 3rd Edition, 2017.

2.Kalavros (G.-E. F.), Georgopoulos (Th.), The Law of the European Union - Volume II (Substantive Law) Nomiki Bibliothiki, 3rd Edition, 2017.

3.Naskou-Perraki (P.), Antonopoulos (K.), Sarigianidis (M.H.), International Organizations, Sakkoulas S.A., 3rd edition, 3rd edition.

4.Panagou (V.), Tsountas (K.), Transnational and transnational cooperation, Papazisis, 2002.

5.Papagiannis (D.), European Law, Legal Library, 5th Edition, 2016.

6.Pliakos (A), The Law of the European Union, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2nd Edition, 2018.

7.Spiliopoulos (O.), Economic Law of the European Union, Sakkoulas, 2020.