European Union (EU)

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1- Introduction to the European Union. EU Institutions (3 ECTS)

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1- Introduction to the EU

1. Aims of the EU
2. Organisation and functioning of the European Union
3. European Union Law
4. Economy of the European Union. The BREXIT
5. Structural and Investment Funds
6. The EU as a member of the European Economic Area

2- Institutions of the European Union (EU).

1. European Commission
2. European Parliament
3. European Council
4. Court of Justice
5. Court of Auditors
6. European Economic and Social Committee
7. Committee of the Regions
8. European Investment Bank
9. Decentralised Agencies

2- European Single Market (EU)

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1. European Single Market
2. EU Services Directive
3. European Digital Single Market
4. Taxation System
5. Economic and Monetary Union
6. European Central Bank
7. European Customs Union

3- Doing Business in the countries of the European Union (37 ECTS)

1. Countries of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden).
2. United Kingdom (non-EU member, BREXIT)

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4- Foreign trade and International Relations of the European Union (8 ECTS)

1- EU Foreign Policy

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1. European Foreign Policy
2. European External Action Service
3. Foreign trade of the EU
4. Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)
5. EU Enlargement
6. Neighbourhood Policy
7. Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
8. Eastern Partnership
9. South Caucasus
10. Western Balkans
11. Black Sea Synergy
12. EU-CELAC Summit
13. Indian Ocean Commission (observer)

2- EU Trade Agreements

1. Strategic partners: The United States, Canada, China, India and South Korea
2. America: Central America, CARIFORUM, Chile, MERCOSUR, Mexico, Andean Countries (FTA with Colombia and Peru)
3. Europe: European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine...
4. Asia: ASEAN, Singapore, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea...
5. Arab Countries: Gulf Cooperation Council, Jordan, Lebanon...
6. Africa: EU-Africa Strategic Partnership, Agadir Agreement, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa...

5- Export to the European Union. Import from the EU (2 ECTS).

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1. How to export to the EU
2. Union Customs Code

6- European Transport Corridors

Trans-European Transport Network Corridors

1. Atlantic Transport Corridor
2. Baltic-Adriatic Transport Corridor
3. North Sea-Baltic Transport Corridor
4. North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor
5. Mediterranean Transport Corridor
6. Eastern Europe-Eastern Mediterranean Transport Corridor
7. Scandinavian-Mediterranean Transport Corridor
8. Rhine-Alpine Transport Corridor
9. Rhine-Danube Transport Corridor
10. Strasbourg-Danube Transport Corridor
11. Pan-European Corridor II
12. Pan-European Corridor IX

The main objective of the module “The European Union (EU)” is to offer an overview of the complex workings of the European Union and its institutions, the EU economy and the business opportunities in the European markets to develop a business plan for the EU markets.

1. To learn to do business in the European Union (EU)
2. To analyse the influence of Christianity on the EU
3. To analyse the foreign trade and the foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region
4. To know the business opportunities in the European Union
5. To examine the international relations and the Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
6. To design a business plan for the markets of the European Union

Member States of the European Union (EU) are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden.

1. On July 1, 2013, Croatia became the 28th member state of the EU
2. EU population: 508 million people

Other Trade Policies of the European Union

1. EU food security policy
2. EU industrial policy
3. EU agricultural policy
4. EU fisheries policy
5. EU environmental standards
6. EU transport policy

Religions in the European Union: Christianity (Catholicism, Orthodox, Protestantism, Anglicans).