Globalizace, identita a evropská integrace – Evropa jako globální aktér
Globalization, Identity and European Integration—Europe as a Global Actor

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I treat globalization as one of the sources of the ongoing debate on the future of the European Union (EU). The existing analyses usually regard EU’s Eastern enlargement and the so called democratic deficit of the EU decision-making as the two most important sources of this debate. However, the content of the documents and speeches that constitute the future of Europe debate reveals that EU political elite does also perceive globalization as an important incentive to define the finality of the European integration process and to reform EU institutions. My aim in this study is to provide a theoretically based explanation of why the debate is taking place, but I seek to provide only a limited explanation as I only deal with one of the sources of the debate: globalization.

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