This master thesis consists of two parts, the first part being the theory and the second part research. The first part theorizes the definition, the emergence and expansion of the European Union, also the accession of Croatia to the European Union, from its starting negotiations to the referendum and official accession on July 1, 2013. The research of the German press reports about Croatia`s accession to the European Union was conducted on the following German newspapers: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Bild. The method used in this research is discourse analysis, with the goal of finding out in which way and what discourse the German press used in reporting about Croatia’s accession to the European Union. The discourse analysis showed that two newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported similar number of articles dealing with equal subjects and identical media discourse. Also, the discourse analysis showed that the German press used negative discourse in its reporting about Croatia`s accession to the European Union. Throughout the articles the main subjects were the negative repercussions of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the war, economy crisis, slow administration, corruption, citizan`s lack of information and fear of accession to the EU and affairs like „Lex Perković“ which almost drew whole attention from the accession.