About the Chair

The aim of the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration is to carry out research on European integration processes and to provide students with information and guidance in studying the issues of European integration and Poland’s membership in the European Union. The following aspects of integration processes in Europe are of particular research interests of the Chair’s staff :
- European Union’s common trade policy;
- Multilateral trade system (GATT/WTO regulations,  the Doha Round, EU position on WTO negotiations, etc.);
- Common Agricultural Policy;
- Regional policy of the European Community; 
- Economic and Monetary Union and the impact of joing the euro area on Polish economy;
- Past and future of the European banking supervision;
- Tax exemptions in Special Economic Zones as a measure of  state aid;
- Competition policy (including state aid) of the European Community;
- Financing of the European Union;
- Tax harmonization in the EU.

The following international research projects were carried out in the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration recently:
- Measurement of costs and Benefits of Accession to the European Union for Selected CEECs (ACE Project);
- Implications of the Adoption by Poland of Common Agricultural Policy (ACE Project).
Also, several projects were financed by the State Committee for Scientific Research, including research on “Negotiations on Accession to the European Union – Perspectives of their Completion and Possible Effects  on the Polish Economy”. The aim of the project was to analyse the main transitional periods and measures worked out during the negotiations on Poland’s accession to the European Union. The subject of the analysis were the following areas of negotiations, for which transitional periods have been agreed: agriculture, free movement of capital (purchase of land), free movement for persons, competition policy (the issue of Special Economic Zones), financial and budgetary provisions (the issue of Poland’s contributions to the EU budget).
Numerous other studies and projects have been carried out as a part of statutory research at the World Economy Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics, in the framework of individual research of staff and at the request of various institutions (including expertises commissioned by the Office of the Committee for European Integration).