Assoc. Prof. Dinko Dinkov

In his book The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century one of the most prominent analysts of the integration processes in Europe, Robert Cooper, asserts that the European Union has not yet reached its final, irreversible form.1 I have personally heard him saying that if the European Union is in crisis, it is a very deep one. Similarly many were convinced that after the big-bang enlargement of 2004/2007, when 12 new countries acceded to the Union, the most successful integration model in history collapsed into a deep institutional paralysis, which has made it unable to face the new tasks and challenges of the changing realities. The awareness of the need to reform the unique attempt for tackling the controversies, accompanying social development, became the foundation for promoting many ideas some of which reflected conviction in the rightness of the founding fathers, others doubts and attempts for identifying new roads for Europe\'s development. It seems obvious