Required topics:

1. Governance in the EU, functioning of the EU (ca. 30-40% of the paper).

2. a. Differences regarding the political and economic system of EU members states and

b. The impact of the EU on domestic systems of policy making and governance and differences in policy implementation (ca. 30-40% of the paper).

3. Policy formation and lobbying in the EU, by the example of environmental issues (ca. 30-40% of the paper)

Literature

The paper should cover the core argument and key concepts of all of the following literature and show that you have understood the argument. Not covering articles will cost points. Not covering the core argument or key concepts of articles will also cost points.

- Bunea (2013)

- Eising (2007)

- Guéguen (2007)

- Hanoteau (2009)

- Kautto (2009)

- Knell & Srholec (2007)

- Kohler-Koch (1998)

- Schmidt (2003),

- Schmidt (2006)

- Schneider and Paunescu (2012),

- Siaroff, Alan (1999),

- Di Lucia, Lorenzo, Kronsell, Annica (2010), The willing, the unwilling and the unable - explaining implementation of the EU Biofuels Directive, Journal of European Public Policy.

- Howarth, David (2009), Greening the Internal Market in a Difficult Economic Climate, Journal of Common Market Studies 47 (special issue: Annual Review).

In addition, the following articles may support the argument

- Beck and Grande (2007)

- Eising and Kohler-Koch (1999)