We also share opinion that the quality of reforms is more important than speed in the integration process, while, on the other hand, we expect and urge for more consistent and decisive enlargement European policy which is now weakened by enlargement fatigue, financial crisis and troubles with the ratification of the Lisboa treaty.

However, we do approach to Croatia's accession to EU with critical observations, through detecting changes in both domestic and European policy. One of our special interest is to recognize impact of EU policies on the reforms in Croatia, but also the question of further political constitutionalisation of the European union and the development of European civil society and European demos.

Another perspective we take is surely the regional approach, as full membership in the EU can cause diverse implications in the region. We consider intense and tight regional cooperation as the precondition for the European future of the countries in the region, that can simultaneously minimise the significance of political actors that – due to their political and economic interests – aim to hold region as much as possible distant from the EU.

In this context, the security policy itself holds inevitable role in the process. Apart from the fact that these processes address question of the democratic standards in the decision-making and public participation in shaping security policy, we imply that security needs to be more linked to the questions of social justice, climate change, food and energy security thus resulting with focusing discussion on rethinking and enforcing 'human security' concept.