PART I: HISTORY, FACTS AND INSTITUTIONS
1. History
2. Facts, law, institutions and the budget
3. Decision making

PART II: THE MICROECONOMICS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
4. Essential microeconomic tools
5. The essential economics of preferential liberalisation
6. Market size and scale effects
7. Growth effects and factor market integration
8. Economic integration, labour markets and migration

PART III: THE MACROECONOMICS OF MONETARY INTEGRATION
9. Essential macroeconomics tools
10. The choice of an exchange rate regime (and history) includes impossible trinity
11. Optimum Currency Areas

PART IV: EU MICRO POLICIES
12. The Common Agricultural Policy
13. Location effects, economic geography and regional policy
14. EU competition and state aid policy
15. EU trade policy

PART V: EU MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICIES
16. The European Monetary System
17. The European monetary union
18. Fiscal policy and the Stability Pact
19. The financial markets and the euro