Globalization and the European Union

The starting point is a characteristic of the effective factors of globalization trends and a characteristic of the form of these trends around which the worldwide movement contesting this form is developing. The author refers to the contemporary current of economic thought to the New Political Economy of Globalization, carrying out a critical partition of the standpoint of this current and the opposite current neoliberalism. The central point of the author's considerations is a kind of two-planarity of the globalization processes: general worldwide and inside the European Union (especially in view of its expected enlargement by new countries during the forthcoming years). The author thinks that the globalization trends inside the European Union should comprise a pattern, because for many reasons (including respect for the national state and national identity) it creates a form more beneficial than the chaotic and spontaneous globalization processes in the whole world economy. Especially the point is to control the processes created by multi- and transnationals (MNC, TNC), imposing on the world such forms of globalization which cause increasingly more violent conflicts.