·      Political changes in Western Europe at the beginning of the 1980s, new economic policies and their implications for European integration; “British rebate”; Mediterranean enlargement; Fontainebleau Summit and its agenda; Completing the Internal Market and Dooge Committee; The Single European Act: context and content.

·      “Delors Package”; Delors Report; The Bruges Speech and British Euroscepticism; establishment of EBRD; IGC on political union in 1990 and its political problems; reaction of the EC countries to the First Gulf War; reaction of the EC to dissolution of Yugoslavia; plan to establish the EMU; Treaty on European Union and the institutional as well as political changes it brought.

·      Process of euro adoption; 1995 enlargement; Eastern Enlargement; Copenhagen criteria; Agenda 2000; Amsterdam Treaty and institutional changes it brought; Fischer´s speech and enhanced cooperation; The Treaty of Nice and imposed changes; failure of the idea of European “Constitution”.