EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND BREXIT: WHAT IS THE ATTITUDE OF YOUNG GENERATION TOWARDS EUROPEAN UNION IN SLOVAKIA?

European Union drives the globalization through open markets, common currency and free travel of European citizens. All these factors trigger the mixing of cultures creating a common European multicultural and international world. This European culture is enhanced by the cultures of all members of European Union. The young generation of European citizens, raised in this multicultural international environment, is enjoying a broad scale of possibilities and opportunities enabled through the European collaboration. Millennials are wiping out cultural prejudices by enjoying travelling, learning to know diverse cultures, nations and people across Europe. They depict the young generation with friends coming from various parts of Europe that will or has already entered workforce in this European Schengen area. This young generation was raised in belief of equality regardless race, gender, nation or age, that we all are Europeans, on joined European nation and together we can achieve more. Recently, one referendum in one of the members of this joined European nation is going to irreversibly change everything as the majority of voters decided to leave this common international and multicultural environment. This shocked everyone around the world. This paper aims to analyze the awareness of this young generation in Slovakia of the advantages and disadvantages of the membership in the European Union as these millennials represent European tomorrow. Based on a survey research, the viewpoint towards the increasing integration as well as the wishes of this young generation towards the future directions for the development of the European Union are formulated.