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Wprowadzenie stanowiska Przewodniczącego Rady Europejskiej stanowi jedną z najistotniejszych zmian instytucjonalnych na gruncie rozwiązań przyjętych najpierw w Traktacie ustanawiającym Konstytucję dla Europy (TKE), a potem przeniesionych do Traktatu z Lizbony. Autorka w tym opracowaniu omawia status prawny oraz faktyczny sposób funkcjonowania Przewodniczącego Rady Europejskiej.

E-administration is a relatively new concept related to the broader technological progress and development of modern technologies, as well as a key condition for the development of an effective information society. E-administration means that the state provides as much of its own public services as possible via the Internet in order to facilitate numerous entities, including its own citizens, enterprises, the academia, etc., as well as to guarantee access to various public services and make the access more affordable. Thanks to such measures, citizens’ satisfaction with the administration increases, and the competitiveness of countries and enterprises increases as well.

The aim of the presented paper is to depict the approach of the European Union and its member states towards security in the countries belonging to the Visegrad Group. For V4 countries it is vital to implement such a policy that would make Western Europe aware of the threat and exert political pressure on the countries of the so-called old Union (in particular on France and Germany) to assume a greater responsibility for security and peace in the world as an international organisation and support all actions designed to establish real and effective common defence policy of the EU. Indeed, state security is presently ensured not only by the armed forces of a given country but also through the assurance of obtaining effective assistance (of different kind) from other states and international organisations guaranteed by international agreements.