| Bemerkung |
Fundamental to any attempt to work with the EU is a solid understanding of the specific institutional and decision-making architecture. The European Commission, as guardian of the Treaties and initiator of EU legislative and non-legislative instruments, is at its core. The importance of understanding its internal decision-making and to interact with it is crucial as the EU adds new powers to its extensive existing competences. Studies on the European Commission's internal decision-making have been burgeoning. This practical oriented seminar will look at the European Commission as seen from the inside, as a living body. It will explore and hope to provide insight into its multi-composite workforce, hybrid structures, complex procedures, diverse working methods and cultures, evolving powers, relations with external actors (lobbies, EU agencies, and the media), major reform processes and main challenges lying ahead. The aim is to explain as straightforwardly and as systematically as possible and by way of examples and methodologies what the European Commission actually does: How it is organized, how it works, who works there and how to work with it.
Die Lehrveranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. Prüfungsrelevante Leistungen können in deutscher Sprache erbracht werden.
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