Federalizacja Unii Europejskiej. Analiza i ocena zjawiska w kontekście pojęcia rodziny i małżeństwa.

Abstract

In recent years, in the European Union, constantly stronger tendencies have been observedthat refer to the actual extension of European Union institutions’ competencies to thoseareas of life that were not imposed to them by the decisions of member states in the treaties.This is how the process of federalization is supposed to look like – to aim at creating within theEU one ‘cosmopolitan empire’ in the place of current union of nations. The aim of the article is theattempt to reveal the characteristics of the spirit exposed by the European’s institutions of federativelaw and order, prove if it was really included in European documents and explain from which lawphilosophy it derives from, what it can mean – in the case of its institutional complementation – forthe understanding of traditional family and marriage pattern as well as pluralistic forms of life.In the article, I would also like to confront cosmopolitan federation’s idea with the spirit of classicaland Christian philosophy spirit as well as answer, among other things, to the following question:is the spirit able to face the multicultural and multinational European complexity, or is it ratherthe next historical attempt of ideological possession of nations, culture and axiology?