The contemporary problems of university management in Europe are the consequence of the following factors:

1. • Problems resulting from conflicts, the requirements imposed by economic development of the integrating Europe together with the conservative, quasi feudal, rigid system of Western European universities as well as the inefficiency of the badly mismanaged communist universities comprising the Warsaw Pact member countries – all of them accumulating from the end of World War II;

2. • The increase in the number of the European Union members by the accession of new countries from Central and Western Europe, of communist background, and with a completely different form of higher education management;

3. • Recession, financial crisis and the growing economic crisis in Europe and the rest of the world.

In the last years, says José Manuel Barroso – the President of the European Commission – “millions of people lost their jobs, the increasing debt will be repaid over the years and our social inclusion was put to the test. […] The crisis was a warning signal which reminded us that if we do not change anything, we will be destined to the gradual loss of importance and we will end up in the second league of the new world order. The time has come for this realization; the time for decisive, ambitious action for Europe”.