Unchanged and unanswered challenges ahead of stormy period
Journal: Papers from the International Scientific Conference of the European Studies Department Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”
Year: 2025

This paper focuses on key external and internal challenges the European integration is facing. Three factors have to get particular attention, which are likely to influence the EU’s developments in the next and most probably crucial period of the integration. Accelerated globalisation with increasingly contradictory developments and, more importantly, accompanied by highly controversial and dangerous national reactions (policy measures) does not exclude serious conflicts and collisions in the ne