The concept of a «Europe of regions» as a factor in national destabilization (the question of the specificity of regional separatism in Poland in the 1990s.)

The article examines the impact of the theoretical concept of European integration on the development of separatist movements in Poland in the 1990s. The focus is on non-ethnic autonomy movement in Upper Silesia and the role played in the prime of their prospects for joining the EU.