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This course investigates one of the key features of the European Union, namely European Economic Governance. In order to make the Single Market work, the European Union and its member states are repeatedly confronted with the challenge of coordinating and integrating diverse national economic models and policies. In this course, students will learn about the main current features of European Economic Governance, how they originated, and they main political disputes they channel. In addition, the course will engage students with academic debates about the extent to which power in EEG is located more at the supranational or intergovernmental level, whether decision-making procedures are more technocratic or democratic, and whether EEG promotes more a neoliberal or a social-welfare-based economic model. The course equips students both with knowledge and critical thinking about how the European economy is governed.