1. INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN POLITICS Dr Simona Guerra simona.guerra@nottingham.ac.uk

2. HANDBOOK  Questions to guide your reading  First five classes: idea of Europe, EU integration and its theories, early stages, Dark Ages and relaunch, EU institutions  Second half: policy-making process, internal and external policies, Europeanisation, and what next (EU2010, EU2020)

3. Berlaymont Building. Photo Courtesy of J Logan: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlaymont_wide_f rom_Schuman_Roundabout_7-9_(correction).jpgPhoto Courtesy of J Logan http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlaymont_wide_f rom_Schuman_Roundabout_7-9_(correction).jpg Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 UnportedCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Strasbourg Hemicycle. Photo Courtesy of J LoganPhoto Courtesy of J Logan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EP_Strasbourg_hemic ycle_l-gal.jpg Released into the public domainpublic domain

4. TIMELINE 1952ECSC 1957-8 Treaties of Rome 1965-6 Empty chair crisis and the Luxembourg compromise 1985 Schengen Agreement and SEA 1991-2 Treaty of Maastricht (TEU) 2004-5 Constitutional/Lisbon Treaty? (John McCormick 2008)

5. EUROPE! http://europa.eu/europago/welcome.jsp