Pretpostavke pridruženja Hrvatske Evropskoj uniji
Presuppositions of Croatia's accession to European Union

Summary/Abstract: In this article, on the example of Croatia, the author considers the question whether the entrance into a multi-national community means loss of national sovereignty, considering the fact that membership in the European Union presupposes that members in certain spheres of economic and political life acknowledge the Union’s sovereignty and primacy of its legal system over the legal systems of the member states. Answer to the question the author connects to the widely accepted statement from the beginning of 1990s that the collapse of the communist governmental systems and establishment of the order of freedom is possible to overcome only by establishing nation-states. Since it turned out that governmental order established in Croatia after that had a whole series of non-democratic elements, the author considers the validity of the thesis that the realization of values connected to the order of freedom is possible only through accession to the European Union. In order to answer these questions, the author considers the meaning of the notion nation-state, invocating works by the leading European researches of the notion.

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