Lecturer Miljen Matijaevi email miljen matijasevicgmail com G

Lecturer: Miljen Matijašević e-mail: miljen. matijasevic@gmail. com G 10, room 6, Tue 15: 30 -16: 30 Session 4, 28 Oct 2014

1. Revision of the previous session 2. Institutions of the European Union

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What was the situation in Europe after WW 2? What two ideas were proposed at the Hague Congress 1948? How many member states are there in the EU / COE? What do the European Communities include? What year was the European Union established? What are three pillars of the EU? What do you know about EU language policy? What is primary legislation of the EU? What about secondary legislation?

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. single market common agricultural policy economic and monetary union EU citizenship transeuropean traffic networks environmental protection social policy common defense policy human trafficking bribe and corruption

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. jedinstveno tržište zajednička poljoprivredna politika gospodarska i monetarna unija državljanstvo EU transeuropske prometne mreže zaštita okoliša socijalna politika zajednička obrambena politika trgovanje ljudima mito i korupcija

European Commission Council of the European Union European Parliament European Council Court of Justice of the European Union European Court of Auditors

European Economic and Social Committee of the Regions European Investment Bank European Central Bank European Ombudsman Office for Official Publications of the European Communities European Personnel Selection Office European Administrative School

a. k. a. Council of Ministers represents the interests of the Member States SEAT: Bruxelles members: 27 national government ministers sits in 9 configurations, depending on the topic of discussion presidency of the Council – each MS chairs for 6 months – rotation (current: Italy)

THE NINE CONFIGURATIONS: General Affairs and External Relations Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Competitiveness Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Agriculture and Fisheries Environment Education, Youth and Culture

tasks of the Council: passes European legislation (co-decision with the EP) – proposals of the EC co-ordinates national policies of MS concludes international agreements approves EU budget (shared with EP) common foreign and security policy freedom, security and justice decisions made by a qualified majority vote (55% of MS representing 65% of EU population)

represents the interests of EU citizens SEAT: Strasbourg, Bruxelles and Luxemburg members: 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) chosen by EU citizens in elections for the EP elections held every 5 years representation by political groups, not by MS

Political group MEPs European People’s Party (EPP) 220 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) 191 Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) 67 Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) 50 European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) 71 Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) 52 Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group (EFD) 48 Non-attached (NA) 52 TOTAL 751

tasks of the European Parliament: passes European legislation (co-decision with the Council) approves EU budget (shared with Council) supervision of other EU institutions approval of the members of the European Commission receive reports by the Commission and the Council and can ask them questions

represents the interests of the EU SEAT: Bruxelles members: 27 members of the European Commission; (informally ‘commissioners’) a ‘government’ for the EU – the executive EC: 27 Directorates-General (glavne uprave) members proposed by national governments, approved by the Council and the EP

tasks of the European Commission: drafts proposals of EU legislation implements EU policies enforces European law (‘guardian of the Treaties’) controls EU budget

defines general directions and priorities of the EU SEAT: Bruxelles members: Heads of States or Governments of EU Member States headed by the President of the European Council (Herman Van Rompuy); a. k. a. President of the EU meets every six months

supervises the interpretation of EU law, enforces EU law SEAT: Luxemburg (working language: French) members: 28 judges comprises: The European Court of Justice The General Court Civil Service Tribunal

jurisdiction: supervises interpretation and application of EU law by national courts enforces EU law settles disputes between Member States, EU institutions, businesses and individuals

not an actual court one member from each Member State tasks: checks EU income and expenditure (EU budget) checks the collection of EU taxes from citizens and whether they are spent economically, legally and for the intended purpose investigates the financial statements of any person or organisation handling EU funds carries out a yearly audit and report to the EP and the Council

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Council of European Council of the European Union European Communities co-decision Directorate-General

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Council of Europe – Vijeće European Council – Europsko vijeće Council of the European Union – Vijeće Europske unije European Communities – Europske zajednice co-decision – suodlučivanje Directorate-General – glavna uprava

Thank you for your attention!