Członkostwo w Unii Europejskiej – warunki prawne

The door leading to the European Union is practically open to every European state. However, some defined conditions must be satisfied, which are contained in the primary sources of the Union’s laws. Meeting political, volitional, economic and legal criteria allows more and more states to expand the Union’s space, and – at the same time – to strengthen the Union’s market economy, democracy and safety on the Continent. Admitting a new state to be a member of the European Union is – without a doubt – an important act for the Union, as well as for the candidate state itself. For neither of the parties is it an easy procedure, although the rise in the number of states – members of the European Union – from 6 to 28 testifies to the fact that all the parties were and are interested in expanding to an equal extent. It needs to be underlined that the current number of the states which make the common space of the European Union in the year 2013 certainly is not the ultimate one.