EU Law Systems and Effectiveness of Religious Organizations: Legislation, Finances, and Administrative Regulations (I)
EU Law Systems and Effectiveness of Religious Organizations: Legislation, Finances, and Administrative Regulations (I)

Summary/Abstract: Recently, there has been a focus on law, religion and society as a fundamental catalyst for public discussions on EU integration. The influx of ‘religiosity debate’ within the area of post-communist studies, particularly in the disciplines of political sciences, has been such that it has almost acquired the status of a “must have” development in recent years. The present paper considers an alternative perspective by which the legal status of religious organizations is part of the status of democracy in the past twenty years. This paper also provides a deeper understanding of the articulation of legal developments allowing us to compare the organizational skills and the degree of autonomous decision-making of religious institutions. From this perspective, the first part of the discussion argues the case of three newly EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia and Czech Republic that appear to have experienced a gradual withering of personal interest in Church before and after the integration.

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