- Docente: Sabrina Ragone
- Credits: 8
- SSD: IUS/21
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Sabrina Ragone (Modulo 1) Giorgia Pavani (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 8784)
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 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
In particular: 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)
In particular: the rationale behind the global crisis and how it affected Europe in particular; the solutions that have been adopted at the EU level, from the perspective of the decision-making process and the intergovernmental method; the constitutional consequences of the financial crisis on particular member states, their legal reforms and constitutional amendments that have affected domestic parliaments and governments; how the territorial organization of member states, particularly their local government, has been submitted to reforms aiming at reducing public expenditure.
3) The migration crisis: European response and domestic implications
In particular: the legal framework of asylum and refugee condition; the political framework and the politics of administrative detention.
4) The crisis of the rule of law: comparative and European perspective
In particular: the most current challenges to European integration and to democracy, coming especially from Poland and Hungary; domestic reforms that have led to violations of the rule of law; the corresponding judgments and the response of the EU.
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
Ceccorulli, M. “Le migrazioni internazionali e le nuove minacce alla sicurezza” , in Rivista italiana di politiche pubbliche, n. 1, 2013, pp. 79-100
Ciolli I., Le ragioni dei diritti e il pareggio di bilancio, Aracne, 2012 (specific chapters will be indicated in class)
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.
Pastore F., “Se l’Italia diventa uno stato cuscinetto”, Limes n. 6, Mediterraneo, 2017, pp. 61-67
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
Spagnolo C., “Le Memorie divise d’Europa”, in Ricerche storiche, n. 2, maggio-agosto 2017.
Uçarer, E.M., “The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”, in M. Cini et al. (eds.), European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 281-296.
Vandelli L., Tubertini C., Gardini G. (eds.), Le autonomie territoriali: trasformazioni e innovazioni dopo la crisi, Maggioli, 2017 (introduction)
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
IOM (2018), World Migration Report, Geneva, IOM.
Commissione Europea, Documento di riflessione sull’approfondimento dell’unione economica e monetaria (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/reflection-paper-emu_it.pdf)
Further readings will be recommended in class.
Teaching methods
Interactive learning methods will be mainly used in the teaching, alongside with more traditional lessons to introduce the most relevant topics.
The bibliography 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 newspaper texts 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.
The program will be carried out during the course by the lecturers, with the participation of the other staff members of the Jean Monnet Module CRISES for seminars on specific topics.
Assessment methods
FULL-TIME STUDENTS: the assessment will be based on the participation of students in class, their involvement in the discussions of the materials and on their presentations in class; and on the final test.
NON-FULL TIME STUDENTS: 1 written and 1 oral exams on the bibliography.
Teaching tools
Powerpoint, cases, legal texts, scholarship.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Sabrina Ragone
See the website of Giorgia Pavani