DSPO 25A91 - The Architecture of Eurozone Governance: Institutions and Policy Coordination in the Post-Crisis Eur

This course examines the institutional architecture of Eurozone governance and the reforms adopted since the sovereign debt crisis (2008-). It asks how the Eurozone evolved from a monetary union with limited instruments of economic coordination into an institutional configuration structured by financial assistance, banking supervision, and judicial oversight.

Combining political science and public law, the course studies the ESM, the Banking Union, the ECB, fiscal rules, the European Semester, courts and crisis decision-making. Students learn to understand policy mechanisms and legal reasoning, and to assess current debates on economic and monetary reform in the European Union.

No formal prerequisite is required.

Twelve weekly seminar sessions combining introductory lectures and guided discussion of required readings as well as analysis of legal texts and policy reforms. The course is co-taught and interdisciplinary, combining political science and public-law approaches to economic governance analysis.

• Participation (10%): Active participation in class discussions will be assessed, encouraging

students to engage critically with the course material and their fellow students.

• Oral Presentation (30%): Students will prepare and deliver an oral presentation on a topic

related to the themes of the course.

• First Written Assignment (30%) - (4-5 pages): In this assignment, students are required to

focus on a specific political party and analyse it through a topic covered in class. Their paper

should integrate theoretical concepts discussed during lectures with relevant empirical

evidence.

• Second Written Assignment (30%) - (4-5 pages): For the second assignment, students may

either build on their previous case study, deepening their analysis, or choose a comparative

approach by examining a different political party in another national context.