Process of Membership in the Europan Union

Abstract

When on 9. May 1950 on the war was heard collapse of mixed European continent speech then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, who called for the connection of the coal and steel, nobody knew that the team will lay the foundations of today‘s European Union. The contemporary world, the European Union is perceived as an entity sui generis. It is a legal phenomenon that is unprecedented. There is a classic international organization, yet it is not even stand. It represents so supranational organization, whose essence lies in the fact that the Member States give up their sovereignty in those areas on which they were previously entitled only they decide in favor of a whole and at the same time committed themselves to respecting the decisions taken on the position of the whole. One of the features supranational organizations is the fact that it is always open to the enlargement process and this character is also focused our contribution. Namely the conditions of entry of third countries into the European Union and the accession process with emphasis on the provision of primary law, Art. 49 of the Treaty on European Union. The paper on a practical level point out the overall progress of the accession process of the Slovak Republic to the European Union, whose beginnings we find even in the times of the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Although the first diplomatic contacts with the Community, the Czech Republic and Slovakia managed to continue even in the period after the Velvet Revolution, the changes that postretli common state of Czechs and Slovaks, however, had a negative impact on the process of membership and completion of the accession process was successfully terminated in relation to autonomous Slovak Republic and Czech Republic in May 2004 in the so-called "major enlargement" of the European Union.