European integration appears to be an unprecendented political, economic and social project. The success of this projest has been proved not ony by concrete achievements but also by the effectiveness of its normative requirements. Already for some time political scientists and sociologists have been puzzled by the fact that altough the rules imposed by the EU are somtimes contested they are nevertheless observed, and this is true as much in the "old" Member States as it the newly accepted ones or in the candidate countries. This phenomenon was the centre of debate in the 2007 Summer School organized by Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology.This volume includes most of the papers on contested compliance with European norms, offering a variety of aspects of the phenomenon. What is especially interesting in the presented texts is their concentration on Central and Eastern European views on the European Union normative enviroment.