The European Union is a supranational community created as a result of the process of cooperation and integration that began in 1951 between six countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands). The goal of the unification of European states after the Second World War was to establish peace among the member states and practical cooperation through the establishment of common policies. After more than sixty years and six waves of enlargement, the European Union today has 27 member states. EU policies have an impact on all member states, but also on candidate states and those that wish to become so. The White Paper on Sports, the European Sports Charter, the principle policies of the EU related to sports and the Erasmus + program are just some of the policies for the further development of sports as a socio-economic branch of society. Due to the many definitions and interpretations of sport, the definition of sport adopted by the Council of Europe can be used: "all forms of physical activity that, through casual or organized participation, aim at expressing and improving physical fitness and mental well-being, creating social relationships and achieving results in competitions at all levels". The European Sports Charter (Council of Europe, 1992) defines sport as "a means of all forms of physical activity which, through spontaneous or organized participation, aim to express or improve fitness and mental well-being by achieving social connection or maintaining results at all levels of competition".