Course Details

1. Explain the historical configuration of European Union, the structure, operation and the role of institutional bodies of European Union.
2. Use the knowledge for the historical development and the institutional frame of European Union in order to explain the political and socio-economic unificating activities, the developments and tendencies of European Union.
3. Analyze the developments in the space of European Union and their likely effects in the international space and particularly in our region, in Cyprus and in the Cypriot problem.
4. Evaluate the political and socio-economic questions in the space of European Union and develop the faculty of conduct of exploratory journalism for European subjects.
5. Create journalistic texts, news, reportage, analyses, articles, comments on European subjects and be able to present them in the Means of Mass Communication.

Foundation of European Economic Community:  The idea of united Europe, the foundation, structure and operation of European Economic Community.

Institutional bodies of European Union:  The role and the powers of European Committee, European Council, European Parliament and European Court.

Economic and Monetary Union:  The European Monetary System, the European Monetary Unit, the treaty of Maastricht, Euro.

Process of enlargement of European Union:  Decisions of European Council Helsinki, criteria of integration, European Vested.

Cyprus and European Union:  The relations of European Union and Cyprus, [Teloniaki] Union 1972, the application of integration of Cyprus, the process of harmonisation and the integration of Cyprus on the 1^st of May 2004.

Cyprus problem and European Union: The places of European Union in the Cypriot problem, the application of integration of Turkey and its obligations toward Cyprus and European Union.

• Ν,.Μούσης, «Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα, Θεσμοί και Πολιτική» εκδ. Παπαζήση, Αθήνα 1998, Βασιλείου Γ. «Κύπρος- Ευρωπαϊκή Ενωση – από τα πρώτα βήματα μέχρι την ένταξη» Αθήνα 2004, Καστανιώτης

• Χρήσιμες Ιστοσελίδες www.europa.eu.int, www.europarl.eu.int, http://ue.eu.int, European Journalism Centre, www.ejc.nl
• Βιβλία αναφοράς για ειδησεογραφική κάλυψη της Ευρωπαϊκής Ενωσης
• The Economist Guide to the European Union, The Penguin Companion to the European Union- Timothy Bainbridge, EU Information Handbook Teacher’s notes.