THE NEOFUNCTIONAL THEORETICAL APPROACH AND PROCESS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATIONS

Petkanić Srđan (Saradnik u Institutu za evropske studije, Beograd), psergio1@yahoo.com

The idea of creating the European Union is the result of a thousand years old integration process of the single European continent. The entire historical, geopolitical and economic development of our continent is permeated by the idea of creating a fully unified Europe. The theoretical bases for the creation of a unified Europe were a common spirit and an expression of pluralism of opinions. The emergence and development of institutions of economic integrations in Europe after World War II had created favourable conditions for the application of the existing theories and the development of new one.

Keywords: European Union, European integrations, neofunctionalism, spillover