Welcome Czech Republic! - The EU accession process in three perspectives

Abstract: The objective of this essay was to shed light on the problems concerning social policy and employment issues involved in the Czech Republic's accession process into the European Union. Central questions asked was; What does the social policy of the EU, the same policy the Czech Republic is adjusting to, look like? What kind of problems is the Czech Republic experiencing with the adjustment? Are the EU and Czech Republic addressing the same problems? How are these problems seen and commented on by outside observers? To investigate the objective and answer the questions a method of documentary research was chosen. Official documents from the Czech Republic and the EU was compared with each other and reflected against some researcher's work. The result of this comparison showed that the Czech Republic and the EU were emphasising the same accession problems and that the accession process has gone as planned. The remaining problems for the Czech Republic to solve mostly concerns administrative and financial issues and to improve the situation of the Roma minority.