The Integrative Process of the European Union from the Perspective of Intra-Community Secessionist Movements

• Main Author: Angela-Mihaela Ene
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2019-05-01
• Series: EIRP Proceedings
• Subjects: secessionist movements; european union; european community; intra community
• Online Access: http://proceedings.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/eirp/article/view/1933/2011

The prospect of a fully integrated European Union and, equally, symmetrically developed from an economic point of view, is an ideal desiderate that will go through a long and totally uncertain course. If the accession of the states and the establishment of the European Union as a supranational state materialized in one way or another, the process of integration of these states is altogether different. This cultural and economic diversity must go through a broad interconnection and interdisciplinary process, a process that will take place according to the natural or artificial managers involved in this integrative construction. The natural factors are constituted from the empathy of nations to such a process and the artificial factors are characterized by community instruments developed for implementation throughout the European community. In this paper, we intend to give a point of view on the complexity of the European integration process of the Member States and also to address this process from the point of view of the secessionist movements, that have lately become very visible, from our perspective with very serious consequences on the stability and development of the Community framework. Even if the vast majority of secessionist formations are of a small size, their distribution throughout the European space makes this phenomenon a substantial one in the EU integration and development process.