ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the problem of how civil society engages with environmental damage brought about by EU-funded structural development project in Slovakia. Slovakia has been considered as one of the 'success stories' of economic development and civil society building among the post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe. One of the keys to this success is the geopolitical location of the country, in the heart of Europe, as some leaflets wrote in the early 1990s, which has accounted for the attraction of vast foreign capital investments. Under the terms of the Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 and enforced in 1993, the European Union elaborated a complex plan of development of its transport network, named the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Civil society occupies the layer between households and the state and it is increasingly looking for different, more extensive spaces in which to devise strategies, make decisions and choices. All this is fruit of the post-socialist transformation and of the EU enlargement.
