POLITICA DE EXTINDERE A UNIUNII EUROPENE – PROBLEMĂ MAJORĂ A ÎNCEPUTULUI DE SECOL XXI
The enlargement policy of Europe Union - A major issue for the beginning of 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: The fall of the socialist block as a consequence of the events from the end of 1989 determined the orientation of the states of Central and Eastern Europe towards democracy and market economy, more exactly to West. Therefore, the fall of the Soviet Union along with the system imposed by it determined the fact according to which the recently „liberated” states had confronted with a serios crisis that was marked by features such as economic chaos, pollution of environment, cime, immigration and even military conflicts. The opposite pole was represented by Europe Union characterized by modernity and security that eventually had become a major player within the context of international relations by means of various actions of prevention and crisis management, economic collaboration, humanitarian and emergency aid, neighborhood policy and preaccession expenditure. The shifting of perspective as regards postcommunist states towards the West, the need to change own systems according to the Western pattern (in which features such as freedom, democracy, state law, market economy are important ) along with their intention to join the Union have all been labelled by the Austrian Erhard Busek as „the great return of East in Europe”.

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