UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ ÎN CONTEXTUL GLOBALIZĂRII POLITICE

• Main Author: Gheorghe Teodor Arat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2008-05-01
• Series: EIRP Proceedings
• Online Access: http://www.proceedings.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/eirp/article/view/1021/940

The globalization, concerted action of the neo-liberal currentfrom the global economy, ment to replacethe initiative of the 70’s regarding the creation of the”newinternational economic and political order”, is almostequally accepted or contested by the international society.The globalization has meanings for the international relations’ actors: states, organizations andinternational agencies and also for the varied segments of theglobal public opinion. Among the organisms whichinvolved and at the same time influenced by the political globalization’s process, the European Union is alsoincludent. From the point of view of its evolution from an economic community to the European complementarityspace, the European Union represents a real interest for the definition and understanding of the globalpoliticsconcept at the beginning of the XXIst century.Obviousi, the European Union is not only one of the global political scene’s actor, even if it prefiguresitself as one of the power poles of the planet, bu its transformation and transition from the economic field to thepolitical field from the national to the federal makes it one of the most interesting organizations.In order to understand this role the evolution of three European communities needs to be observed fromtheir foundation until now, stage recorded by the Treaty of Lisbon from December 2007, which prefigures at thesame time the future development of the organization too, in the context of globalization of politics and intheglobalization’s politics.