Anthropological Analysis of EU Decision-Making Processes

The analysis of the language and contents of EU documents from the perspective of political studies carried out in the previous chapter has shown that as regards the categories used in EU policies, their content, and their objectives, a marked leaning may be observed in the process of European integration towards unconstrained anthropology. At the same time, the study has shown that the degree of this leaning for a particular institution may vary both depending on the type of morality policy concerned (bioethics or sexuality/sexual behavior) and the nature of the institution itself. Generally speaking, supranational institutions (particularly the Parliament) seem to be more prone to unconstrained thinking than international ones (the Council). At the same time, decisions concerning the protection of human life were less susceptible to the logic of unconstraint than the issues of human sexuality, which were clearly dominated by this logic, at least on the verbal level.