PERSPECTIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION – BETWEEN POLITICAL INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION
PERSPECTIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION – BETWEEN POLITICAL INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION

Summary/Abstract: In the past years, the European Union was marked by the first important economic-financial crisis, damaging peculiarly the eurozone. The lack of opportune and concerted solutions of the European leaders to bring to the escape from recession on the background of an already existent institutional crisis on the EU level triggered a social crisis determining the extension of euroscepticism and populism phenomena in some parts of Europe, awakening latent feelings of nationalism and secessionism in Europe. Following these emergent phenomena, it is obvious this European construction bearing so many hopes for the future suffers from credibility perspective as economic and political union. Therefore, voices were heard, some of the European officials warning the European Union can collapse because of the decisions taken behind the closed doors of national governments. If a divided eurozone could mean the dismantling of single market and Schengen area, implicitly of the European Union as a whole, a trial of enhanced political integration can lead to the withdrawal from the European Union framework of some states as the United Kingdom of the Great Britain. We consider that whatever will be happening with the European Union will define the future of the entire world.

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