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Európska únia v 21. storočí: Ekonomická kríza - vnútorná integrita v ohrození
The European Union in the 21st Century: Economic Crisis - Internal Integrity in Danger

Author(s): Jana Dzurňáková, Ivan Pešout
Subject(s): Economy, History of European Union, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, z. ú.
Keywords: crisis of eurozone; legitimacy of the European Union; future direction;

Summary/Abstract: The current period of the deep economic and financial crisis of the eurozone entails a comprehensive and wide-ranging crisis of legitimacy of the European Union, which to a large extent affects not only the activities of the European Union towards its own member states, but in particular its role as a responsible and relevant international actor. In the forthcoming period it will be particularly crucial for the European Union to make a decision on its future existence and functioning. In this paper, therefore we will pay our attention to the current crisis of the European Union legitimacy, as well as, to actually discussed ways of the future direction of the European Union outlining briefly advantages and disadvantages of each mode and drawing a picture of the complexity and the extent of impacts of each variation

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 59-63
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovak