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The Author's introductory remarks denote brief survey of the historical events characteristic for the foundation and development of the legal system in
Croatia, accentuating in further the continual (even in socialist period) inclination towards the contemporary development of European law and occidental legal
systems. Since the Roman law pattern and codifications in 19th cent., from ius commune to German law of the Pandects there has always been a link that firmly connected Croatian jurists and their western colleagues in the establishment of joint professional
feeling, corresponding scale of values and equivalent legal standards &
principles. Due to this fact, Croatia was (in)directly involved in most significant events in the course of European
evolution, development, prospective alteration and progression. Therefore the expected entry among the member states of European Union might be considered as the logical and indisputable
consequence. The second part of the Article denotes the Author's attempts to find out the concrete consequences of the future entry of Croatia in EU, in the context of recent events particularly considering the new step referring the authority of the Union towards national authorities followed by certain disputable and too centralistic tendencies of Bruxelles and the
Commission, imposing the member states to renounce certain departments of their authority
(question without discussion several years ago).
Beyond that, the intense integration of EU Law and national pattern(s) gradually leads to the consequence that in the course of days it became more difficult to identify the precise difference between national and EU law
patterns; both increase and develop simultaneously, in total harmony because of the current practical impossibility to perform respective development without the adequate development of the
other.
Key words: history of
Croatia, European Union, the entry of Croatia into EU,
relation EU - member states/nations.
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