CLAUDIO CATALANO

1st Year IInd Term LM-90 course

Summer exams

30 May 2025  in room 8 starting at 9:00 Am CET

12 June 2025 in room 9 starting at 9:30 Am CET

11 July 2025   in room (t.b.d.) starting at 9:30 Am CET

The course a.y. 2024/25 ended on 17 May 2025

Course syllabus

No Propaedeutic course is needed, previous basic knowledge of EU law or Western European History or History of International Relations may help  

This course taught in the English language in the framework of “European Studies LM/90” is aimed at providing Italian or foreign students with a comprehensive exploration of the history, institutions, and politics of European integration since 1945.
The rationale of this course is to focus on the (political) actors, theories of integration and the resulting European treaties that shaped the European institutions.
Therefore, every module shall illustrate:
1) actors and political thought behind integration strategies;
2) treaties that resulted from negotiation and agreement between the Member States;
3) the European institutions established by the relevant Treaty.

For further and for the detailed Course please see the PDF file attachment on the right-hand side of this webpage.

Week 1 (Before and during the World War II); Week 2 (establishment of ECSC) Week 3 (NATO, the EDC); Week 4 (the EDC and EPC failure, and European relaunch and EEC establishment) Week 5 (EEC and the single market, and first enlargement); Week 6 (1970s European advancements and 1979 Parliament elections, and Single European Act and the 1980s); Week 7 (the road to Maastricht); Week 8 (Amsterdam and Nice Treaty); Week 9 (Eastern enlargement and the Lisbon Treaty); Week 10 (financial crisis and other crises); Week 11 (Brexit).

Textbook:

Claudio Catalano "European integration: from its origins to the Next Generation EU" Nuova Cultura, 2023 (2nd updated and revised edition)

https://www.nuovacultura.it/prodotto/european-integration/

Elearning Moodle: History & Inst of EU 24/25

SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE EXAMS

For regular LM-90 students:

Exam session: oral exam, two questions (equal weight: 50% each, to pass the exam) for each student to assess knowledge of the History of EU integration, its main actors, historic events, and the relevant Treaties and institutions established as taught during classes.

For Erasmus exchange students

These categories of students may sit the regular exam or may opt for writing an Essay on two topics agreed with the exam commission. In this case, the essay has a requirement of 2,000 words, and shall be sent by email one week (7 days) before the day of the exam. The student may be required to defend the Essay on the day of the exam.   

For any student who has not attended the course:

Textbook is:

Claudio Catalano "European integration: from its origins to the Next Generation EU" Nuova Cultura, 2023

Winter session exams at the Law Department shall be on:

March 7th, Room (t.b.d.), starting at 9:30 a.m. (C.E.T.)

For further details and to enrol for the exam, check on INFOSTUD