Accession to European Union and human rights – the hopes for a more civilised surrounding
Accession to European Union and human rights – the hopes for a more civilised surrounding

Summary/Abstract: Looking in retrospect at what was established under the formal and symbolic title of democracy immediately after the communist regime gave up the power in what was then still SFR Yugoslavia, the current enthusiasm in the remaining post- Yugoslavian countries to enter the European Union could be understood as anything but a result of any 'natural' development. Accession to the EU brings the external pressure (if there is no internal one) to honour the applicable norms, and to take and implement far more seriously the norms that have been endorsed as a mere concession to the foreign impacts. Under conditions of a higher legal stability and security, in relation to the government disciplined from outside, interests and autonomous centres of power in the society will be able to gradually gain independence and some day also impose limitations from within.

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