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The focus of the article is the theme of “A Social Europe”, which arrived into the vocabulary of contemporary politics almost half of a century ago. “A Social Europe” describes what Europe of the future is, or should be, about – it has in mind a Europe after the phase of national empires and states, which has evolved into a community known as the European Union and is an alliance of sovereign states, which is developing itself towards a higher form of unity. The article also presents different visions of a “A Social Europe” which ap- peared during the process of developing the European Union.