Politization and depolitization in European integration

European Union is a challenge for political sciences in these days, because of difficulties in its description in the terms of classical theories of political sciences. These difficulties are even greater, when we want to unravel the political entity of EU and find attributes of the politics and political praxis in it. The inherited tradition of political theory is tightly connected with the phenomenon of state. But EU goes beyond the state as a basic political structure. Nevertheless, there is an intuition, that there is some kind of politics and political praxis in the structures of EU. The question is, where we can find the praxis and how it looks like. Firstly, a characteristics of the political were found, according to the works of the classical theoreticians of political praxis, which were compared with governance in EU. Consequently, a tendency in politization of institutions an topics in European level was found, on the basis of the reflection on debates about democratic deficit in EU (which is also about deficit of politics in EU). Signs of political behavior were found in politization of European Parliament - in creation of robust political parties, party politics and system of parties, whose main axis of cleavage is leftist-rightist one. This cleavege has implication on choosing president of the..