89553 - CRISES - CRITICAL RISKS FOR INTEGRATION AND SOLIDARITY IN THE EUROPEAN SPACE

Learning outcomes

This course aims to provide the students with the opportunity to develop a critical knowledge of European integration with particular attention to the most recent crises, related to finance, immigration and the violations of the rule of law. At the end of the course, students will have acquired: a) wide perspective on the intersection of political, legal, historical and economic factors in the management of the crises; b) skills useful for the identification of the legal and political factors influencing European integration; c) fundamental techniques of reading and understanding of European, constitutional and legal sources of law; d) skills of analysis of European and domestic case law; e) critical skills for the comparative analysis of historical, legal and political factors of integration processes.

Course contents

The course is organized in lectures and seminars, as detailed in the following program. Lectures (26 hours in remote on MS TEAMS) aim to introduce students to the core tenets of the discipline. Seminars (12 hours) aim to provide occasions for in-depth discussions of class materials and exercises. For the seminar section of the course, students will be divided in two groups according to their preferences and according to rules concerning the current pandemic emergency: one group will do the seminar in classroom (12 hours) and another group will do the seminar remotely on MS TEAMS (12 hours), for a total of 38 hours for each student. Students are required to carefully read the assigned material before the session and - in the case of seminars - active participation through presentations of existing scholarship and case studies will also be expected. Regardless of the health-related conditions and the specific organization of the course, students will be able to follow the lessons of the entire course remotely on MS TEAMS.

CONTENTS

The CRISES Module deals with the three current challenges of the EU from a multidisciplinary perspective: mainly legal, but also political, historical and economic.

More specifically, it addresses these macro-issues:

1) European integration and its crises (historical and legal evolutionary reconstruction concerning the moments of “crisis” of EU integration);

2) The financial crisis and its impact on EU and domestic institutions - parliaments, governments and local government - (rationale behind the global crisis and consequences on Europe; t EU and domestic solutions; constitutional consequences of the financial crisis on member states; legal reforms of local entities - sharing cities);

3) The migration crisis between European response and domestic implications (legal framework of asylum and refugee condition;  political framework and the politics of administrative detention; evolution of the corresponding EU policy);

4) The crisis of the rule of law from a comparative and European perspective (violations of the rule of law; illiberal democracy and populism; the cases of Poland and Hungary; domestic reforms, case law of the CJEU and domestic courts). 

KEY STAFF MEMBERS of the MODULE: Prof.ssa Sabrina RAGONE; Prof.ssa Michela CECCORULLI; Prof.ssa Francesca FAURI; Prof.ssa Giuliana LASCHI; Prof.ssa Giorgia PAVANI

Readings/Bibliography

Adamson, F.B. and Tsourapas, G. (2019), ‘Migration Diplomacy in World Politics’, International Studies Perspectives, 20, 2, pp. 113-128.

Alvisi, C., Donati, D., Pavani, G., Profeti, S., Tubertini, C., New Policies and Practices for European Sharing Cities, Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, 2019 (http://amsacta.unibo.it/6296/#).

Bauböck, R. (2018), ‘’Refugee Protection and Burden Sharing in the European Union’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 56, 1, pp. 141-156.

Boswell, C. (2003), ‘The “external dimension” of EU immigration and asylum policy’, International Affairs, 79, 3, pp. 619-638.

Ceccorulli M., "Back to Schengen: the collective securitization of the free-border area", West European Politics, 42, 2, 2019, pp. 302-32

Ciolli, I., “I diritti sociali e la crisi”, in G. Matucci (ed.), Diritto all'istruzione e inclusione sociale : la scuola aperta a tutti alla prova della crisi economica, Milano, 2019, pp. 123-137

De Grauwe P., “The legacy of the Eurozone crisis and how to overcome it”, in Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 30, 2016, pp. 147-155

Fauri F., “L’Italia, la crisi e il ruolo dell’Unione Europea tra sfide e opportunità”, in D. Strangio (a cura di), Istituzioni, disuguaglianze, economia in Italia. Una visione diacronica, Franco Angeli, 2018, pp. 203-218

Laschi G., “L’Europa in crisi”, in M. Mascia, F. Velo (a cura di), L’Unione Economica Europea: aspetti Economici, Sociali e Istituzionali, Bari, Cacucci, 2016, pp. 1-15.

Pegoraro L., Pavani G. (eds.), Municipi d'Occidente. Il governo locale in Europa e nelle Americhe, Donzelli, 2006 (introduzioni alle parti del volume)

Ragone S., “Constitutional effects of the financial crisis at European and national level: a comparative overview”, in Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado, n. 15, 2014, pp. 1-23

Ragone S., “Domestic Response to the Financial Crisis: Reforms of Executive Branches in Economically Weak Countries of the Eurozone”, in Rivista di Diritti comparati, 2019, Special issue 1-2019, pp. 147 - 166

Spagnolo C., “Le Memorie divise d’Europa”, in Ricerche storiche, n. 2, maggio-agosto 2017, pp. 1-11.

Vandelli L., Tubertini C., Gardini G. (eds.), Le autonomie territoriali: trasformazioni e innovazioni dopo la crisi, Maggioli, 2017 (introduzione)

von Bogdandy A., Il diritto europeo oltre l’“Unione sempre più stretta”: ricostruzione del concetto e della metodologia comparativa della Corte di giustizia, in Il diritto dell’Unione Europea, 1/2018, pp. 1-26.

Further materials, texts, articles, judgments, cases will be recommended by the lecturer in class.

Teaching methods

Interactive learning methods will be mainly used in the teaching, combined with more traditional lessons to introduce the most relevant topics.

The materials will be discussed in class. Also, judgments issued by national and supranational courts will be examined, as well as normative texts adopted during the crises both by states and the EU. For each topic, scholarship and possibly newspapers' articles will be discussed.

Students will be involved in class discussions concerning the normative tools of the crises, the role of states and the EU, anti-crisis policies adopted in the last decade, etc. They will be required to actively participate in class.

Assessment methods

For FULL-TIME STUDENTS (in class and via Teams),the assessment will be based on their participation, their involvement in the discussions of the materials, their presentations in class, as well as potential reports.

For NON-FULL TIME STUDENTS, the assessment will take place as a  final written exam on the materials.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint, legal texts, judgments, newspapers'articles, videos.

 

Links to further information

https://site.unibo.it/jm-module-crises/en

Office hours

See the website of Sabrina Ragone

See the website of Giorgia Pavani