UCL - Further EU enlargements

[EUSL2302]

[15h] 3 credits

Teacher(s): Bernard Snoy et d'Oppuers

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the completion of this course, the student should be able to know the economic, political and geopolitical factors at stake as well as the obstacles involved in the prospective further enlargements of the European Union.

Main themes

This course, which will be given as a lecture, aims at sensitizing the students to the issues involved in the future enlargements of the European Union, in particular the future accession negotiations, in the light of the preceding enlargement experience.

Content and teaching methods

The Europe of the 27 is bound to be further enlarged. It is foreseen that the stabilisation and association process with the ex-Yugoslav Republics and Albania will lead to their accession.
On the other side, the negotiations for the accession of Turkey are expected to follow an arduous path with an uncertain outcome. The issue of the oriental border of the Union will come up, with the prospects for Moldova, Ukraine and even Belarus. In the case of accession of Turkey, what will happen with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan? Evolutions are also possible with respect to Norway and Switzerland.
Furthermore, how will the EU relation evolve with the Council of Europe and the OSCE?
The preceding enlargements will also be considered in the framework of a comparative approach with the present context.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Period: 2nd semester.
Periodicity: yearly.
Language: French.
Prerequisite: none.
Evaluation: written or oral examination.
Support: to be determined by the professor in charge.
References: to be determined by the professor in charge.