Abstract
The contemporary European nation-state is coming under a twofold pressure pattern. On the one hand, nationalistic and regional movements push for a reduction of responsibilities at the nation-state level. In Eastern Europe several societies fragmented at the beginning of the 1990s. Contrarily, in the context of the European Community, the development of suprastate or supranational structures can also be observed. The crucial question, of course, is, which of those processes is more pervasive in the long run: national fragmentation, the viability of the nation-state, or the evolution of supranational structures? In trying to analyze those trends I presented a conceptual framework, called three levels of stale structures. If we want to assume that, in the case of the European Community, the evolutionary drive for supranational integration is stronger than the potential of fragmenta-
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