From Economic Cooperation
to the Development of a European Polity

Seminar Conveyor Kevin Adamson from Eseex University

Seminar took place at Institute for Sociological Political and Juridical Research st. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, R. Macedonia , thanks to D-r Mirjana Maleska, who was mediator of the course.
Lectures were divided periodically into four weeks and four topics.

Week one: Friday 16th March 2001

EU- Economic and Political integration in Historical Perspective

Where participants were introduce to a nature of common bond relationship of European countries through a history and the beginning of the formal process of integration.

Week Two: Friday 23rd March 2001

EU Political Institutions and Their Role in the Policy-Making Process

Several basic points about the policy context were discussed, within which the EU institution operates.
This has a bearing upon their design, and the separation of policy roles between them based on the European experience of the state.

Traditional Policy input and Outcomes
1. European Council
2. The European Commission
3. Parliament – increasing new power
4. Council of Ministers

Week Three: Friday 30th March 2001

• EU Policy Areas and policymaking Process: An overview
• Reforms in European Union as precondition for enlargement
• Reforming European Commission,
• Increasing power of Parliament

Week Four: Friday 6th April 2000

EU Enlargement: The Political and Economic Relations between East and West

• The starting points of policy toward the CEECs
• Longer-term policy framework: the European Agreements
• Enlargement policy(The Madrid European Council, The IGC and Amsterdam Treaty, Internal policy reforms and Agenda 2000)
• Toward accession(Selecting Candidates: the Luxembourg European Council, Policy reform and founding : The Berlin European Council)
• Relationship with other Europeans countrie