Abstract
Europeanization was, and is, seen as promoting the values of the European civilization in all spectra of social and political and economic life, today represented by the European Union. The Central European countries have undergone mainly in the 90s quite a difficult Europeanization process in the form of a top -down in the economic, social and particularly in the institutional (i.e. political and legal) dimension.
It should be noted that the Central European countries have also affected the foreign policy of the entire European Union with the principle of an up-load of their priorities, namely in relation to the issues of energy security and enlargement of the European Neighbourhood Policy by the Eastern dimension. Europeanization of Central European countries has been confirmed.
Hypothesis about Europeanization in Central Europe by downloading, so uploading, precisely circular mechanism (cross-loading Europeinization) is confirmed too, and this despite some of the negative manifestations.