The book is a part of preparatory activities of the Erasmus Intensive Programme. It offers a basic overview of the problems concerning present developmentsof the European Union, European integration processess and certain selected topics that are currently relevant for the further development of European integration. The goal of the book is to give readers a basic overview of selected topics relating to the modern conception of the European Union. The main idea is to familiarize the readers with the importance of countries membership in the EU and to help the readers to understand the idea of integrating Europe both in relation to the EU´s own members and to the EU´s own members ant its neighbours.