The European Union. European Dream. So What, Exactly? Cover Image

Europejska Unia. Europejskie marzenie. Czyli co (tak właściwie)?
The European Union. European Dream. So What, Exactly?

Author(s): Adam Banaszkiewicz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Public Administration, Public Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: European Union; European Communities; European Integration; The Lisbon Treaty; Europe’s future

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the European Union as an organization, which was intended to ensure that European countries prosperity and opportunity to secure growth. At the beginning the author reminds, what was the point of creation and presents the origins and history of the present Union (former Communities). This excerpt from the article begins with a brief overview of previous integration projects that have emerged in Europe. Shown is what the organization concerned was in the beginning, and how has changed over the decades of its existence. A key element of the article are reflections about what the European Union is now and is it still reflects an ideas which constituted the reason for starting the integration process. Also important are comments on this, in which direction the common European project is moving in the face of the restitution of national egoism. The main thesis of the article were established in 2013, and thus before it turned out that secessionist tendencies are even more severe than we thought (the example is the British vote for leaving the union in June 2016).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 175-191
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish