・7. October 2019, the Lecture Series "EU Basics" at the Faculties of Economics, Law, and Intercultural Studies of Kobe University (the number of Participating Students=20) started.
・This lecture series are omnibus classes aiming to provide undergraduate students with basic knowledge on the EU. Therefore, at the end of this lecture series, participating students will have acquired basic knowledge of the EU from a wide range of perspectives.
・Prof. Dr. INOUE takes charge of making the second lecture of this Lecture Series as the same of the last year.
・14. October 2019 at 17:00～18:30, the second Lecture was held. Its Theme was "the Legal Base of the EU and the guarantee of the Fundamental Rights of the EU".
・The main contents of the second lecture are as follows; what the EU is, basic principles of law, the possibility of political integration by the Fundamental Treaties of the EU, how to guarantee the Fundamental Rights of the EU citizen.
・It was a little bit revised and made renewal of the contents of the last lecture.
・The following topics were covered by this second Lecture:
1) The EU as a regime legally based on its fundamental Treaties.
2) The governance system was made by the model of the modern constitutional Nation-States.
3) From TECSC over Treaties of Rome of 1957 to the Single European Act
4) Establishment of the EU after Falling Down of Berlin Wall; from Maastricht Treaty to Nice Treaty
5) Three pillars structure of the EU under Maastricht Treaty
6) Failure of the European Constitutional Convention and TEU and TFEU of Lisbon Treaty.
7) The right of Member States to withdraw from the EU (Art. 50 TEU) and Brexit
7) The Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights.
8) Triple Protection of the Fundamental Rights in the EU: the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the EU, European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the protections by the Constitutions of Member States