Course: EU/Mercosur - Trade, Legal and Political aspects

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Course title EU/Mercosur - Trade, Legal and Political aspects
Course code KRM/EUTLP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Krásnická Martina, Ing. Ph.D., LL.M.
Course content
1. Introduction 2. EU-Trade Relations 3. EU-Mercosur Trade Relations 4. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay 5. EU-Latin America - Human Rights Issues + Drugs Issues 6. Trade with Mercosur - practical aspects 7. Presentations 1 8. Presentations 2

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
  • Class attendance - 16 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
This course will survey the scope and dimensions of Latin American foreign and trade policy towards the European Union. Its objective is to provide students with a substantive grounding in the history, theoretical approaches, and central issues in Latin American foreign policy towards the European Union.
One of the main objectives of this course is to help students understanding the challenges of a rapidly changing world and to provide students with a substantive grounding in theoretical approaches, central issues in Latin American foreign and trade policy towards the European Union.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Seminar work

(1) active participation in class discussions (2) teamwork with other students in preparing their presentations - observed by tutor(s) (3) content of the presentation (4) understanding and use of sources
Recommended literature
  • Documents in Moodle.
  • http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/regions/latin-america/copolad-cooperation-programme-between-latin-america-and-european-union-drugs_en.
  • http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-07-725_en.htm?locale=en.
  • https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_3396.
  • https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/mercosur/.
  • https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/brazil_en/986/Brazil%20and%20the%20EU.
  • https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/brazil/45174/coopera%C3%A7%C3%A3o-uni%C3%A3o-europeia-brasil-2018-2020_en.
  • https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/eu_action_plan_on_human_rights_and_democracy_en_0.pdf.
  • http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/join/2012/457107/EXPO-AFET_ET(2012)457107_EN.pdf.


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