Abstract
Central Europe has undergone during the last seventy years the fundamental developmental twists and turns affecting the societal conditions of life. The result of the WWII was the expansion of the soviet sphere of influence up to the eastern border of the divided Berlin, which influenced the evolution of the political, therefore, and the institutional, social, and economic for over forty years - with all the negative connotations.
After dozens of years of socialism marked the fall of the iron curtain the possibility of radical reorientation. The Europeanisation appeared to be for Central European countries as one of the methods, how to adapt their institutional environment to the ordinary standards of the legal, economic, but also social.
Mechanisms of Europeanisation are here shown in all directions - vertical, horizontal as well as institutional adaptation, the way of down-loading and up-loading. By the EU as a policy of conditionality, where the demands of Europeanization correspond with the focus of the transformation of the Central European countries.