In the paper, attempt at a model approach to economic integration was made. The hitherto known from the literature approach to this problem focussed onthe institutional criterion, i.e. on differences in the integration policy. The author introduced an additional criterion regarding the...

The elaboration contains a classification of economic integration taking into consideration two criteria: institutional and geographic. Classifying integration institutionally the author used B. Balassy's formulation from 1962, supplementing it by additional elements. Included among them should...