This lecture focuses on change and the politics of change in the European Communities in the period at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990´s. We will focus in a detail on the  construction of the EU based on the Treaty on European Union signed in 1992. Special attention will be devoted to the Maastricht Temple and the division of competences between EU institutions and the member states, the establishment of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs, the introduction of the EU citizenship etc.
Topics for discussion: What where the main impulses (both economic and political), which led to the transformation of the EC into the EU? What where the main problems (economic, political,…), which the EC was solving in the end of the 1980´s? How the transformation of the EC into the EU contributed to the solution of these problems?

Readings:
Mazzucelli, C. (2012): The Treaty of Maastricht: Designing the European Union. In: Laursen, F. (ed.; 2012): Designing the European Union. From Paris to Lisbon. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 147 – 179. (32 pages)
McAllister, R. (1997): From EC to EU: an historical and political survey. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 208-227. (19 pages)
Treaty of Maastricht on European Union (fact sheet)

Documents (recommended):
Treaty on European Union (The Treaty of Maastricht) Homework - position paper II
Deadline for submission: March 19 (23:59)
Length: 2500-3000 signs
Texts for PP2:
Margaret Thatcher: Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech"), 20 September, 1988
Questions: What were the main ideas of Margaret Thatcher concerning the future of European Community and the place of Great Britain within the Community? What were the main differences between these ideas and the ideas of that time Commission´s President Jacques Delors? Try to comment and evaluate Thatcher´s principal ideas both in the context of that time EC and Europe and also in the context of today reality.