Abstract
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union not only increased its number of member states, but looking at the economic, political and cultural situation of the new member countries, most of them under communist rule until recently, with the opening of the iron curtain and the disappearance of the USSR, one can easily discover major differences with EU-15 nations. It seems necessary to rethink the allocation of competences between the supranational and federal bodies of the European Union and national governments when faced with this new diversity of preferences.
