European Studies

Teaching results

The graduate will be able to describe the history of economic integration in Western Europe, describe the motives leading to the emergence of the European Communities to the European Union, and later to its enlargement. He will be able to name the main institutions, their roles and main representatives.
As part of the EU's development, he will be able to describe the various stages of economic integration and apply them to the EU.
The graduate will know the sources of financing the EU budget and what expenses are paid from the EU budget. He will be able to distinguish between individual EU policies in terms of the competences of the EU institutions and the Member States. It will be oriented in the basic policies of the EU, what are their goals, what tools are used for their implementation.
Energy, environmental policy and innovation policy form a complex of interrelated policies, and the graduate will be able to critically evaluate the EU instruments used to synergistically meet the objectives of these policies.
Migration, asylum, foreign and security policy are policies in the exclusive competence of the Member States and the graduate will be able to assess in which areas a common EU approach is possible.
The graduate will be able to name EU instruments of EU support policies that increase the competitiveness of the EU and its Member States.