The European Union – History and Future is a book comprising two essays on the European Union. The first one, titled Liberal Understanding of Individual Freedom and its Impact to the Status of Human Rights – Historical, Philosophical and Political Dimensions is a comprehensive study into liberalism as one of political options in the contemporary political streams in the European Union and, apart from liberalism as a political direction, it examines liberalism as an idea, ideal and ideology from historical and political points of view. The other essay, titled European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan deals with contemporary issues of the involvement of the European Union in the Republic of Kazakhstan from political, economic and legal aspects thus questioning the range of EU expansion into areas left out from the current discussions of the matter. Yet the scope of expansion clearly indicates the activities of legal institutions and economic engagement have penetrated very actively and efficiently into the region, although they have been pushed out of the focal issues on the future of the European Union.