SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

The European Community/Union has a very branched-out system of government, defined and institutionalized in its agreements. The paper presents the institutional structure of government with all of its institutions included therein: European Council, Council, European parliament, Commission, European Court of Justice. A special attention is paid to the functioning of this system of government. Its specificity with regard to the familiar systems of state government is here emphasized. The community is not based on the principle of horizontal and vertical division of power after the model of a modern organization of government. Legislative and executive branches of government are not assigned to particular legislative and executive bodies.