КОНСТИТУЦІОНАЛІЗАЦІЯ СПІВРОБІТНИЦТВА УКРАЇНИ З ЄС НА ПІДСТАВІ УГОДИ ПРО АСОЦІАЦІЮ: ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РОЗВИТКУ

Abstract

The article studies the process of constitutionalization of associative relations between Ukraine and the European Union. The author distinguishes and reveals two significant aspects of this process, namely meaningful and implementing. It is determined that meaningful constitutionalization by its essence is the constitutional modernization, where the meaningful updating of the Constitutional provisions is made in order to form the constitutional pillars for further democratization of social and political life in Ukraine, the approximation of the national political and legal system in accordance with the European values and principles, the improvement of the internal legal framework. The implementing aspect of constitutionalization means the purposeful formation of constitutional preconditions for the implementation of Association Agreement's provisions to the national legal system. The author stipulates that the fulfillment of both meaningful and implementing aspects of constitutionalization of Ukraine's association with the EU shall be implemented mainly by incorporating of this process directly into the context of the constitutional reform in Ukraine. The special attention is paid to certain problems of the reformation of the Constitution of Ukraine ensuring the European integration. The author expresses the critical reservations related to the amendments to the Constitution with the provisions of strategic orientation of Ukraine for the long term perspective.