THE PROCESS OF EUROPEANIZATION REVIEWED: THE IMPLICATION OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Currently when we speak about the European Union (EU) this is not only an economic or political integration any longer. EU founds its basis on the rule of law principle and its Court of Justice supervises that the law is observed during the implementation of all Treaty chapters. Furthermore, one of the European integration theories – Europeanization – that generally had a political, economic and even cultural connotation is more often used in the legal context evolving an approximation of laws at different levels either from International to European, European to national or even European to International. The present research paper aims at reviewing the Europeanization process from the law perspective while assessing the role the Court of Justice of the European Union plays on it.