At present specialists in international relations initiate different discussion about the legal personality of the EU. Some researchers consider that the supranational construction is the most important trend that will dominate the future of the European community, but the development of this tendency means the diminishing of the role of the national governments. Other researchers note the tendency of increasing of the role of member-states’ Governments that shows the aspects of classical cooperation. The present study represent the paper dedicated to the analysing of the legal personality of EU, identifying the trends present in the current construction of the EU, as well as drawing conclusions about the historical development of the Union through the prism of the theories formulated by the founders of EU.
