This article investigates the complex problems arising from the discrepancy of traditional liberal crisis response approaches in the new type of complex emergencies. Based on the in-depth empirical analysis, it examines the EU role in addressing security sector reforms, humanitarian assistance...

Article 8 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) provides a new legal basis for developing the European Union's relations with its neighbouring countries. This contribution traces the origins of this provision and analyses its objectives and potential application in practice. It is argued that...

This paper analyses the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA). It argues that this new legal framework, which has the objective to establish a unique form of political association and economic integration, is characterised by three specific features: comprehensiveness, complexity and...

This contribution looks at the application of EU case law by the Ukrainian judiciary in the course of implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which triggered unprecedented political, economic and legal reforms in Ukraine. Several issues form the focus of consideration in the...

Ukraine is awaiting a new enhanced agreement with the EU. Formal negotiations started in 2007 and are expected to be completed in one or two years. The future Enhanced Agreement between the EU and Ukraine is of significant importance for both parties. As a result, its scope and objectives have...

The Treaty of Lisbon paved the way for legal formalization of new European Union policies and significantly enhanced external dimension of the European Union Internal Market. The newly emerged European Union energy policy is a good example of it. External objectives of the European Union energy...

This contribution is devoted to the study of legal order of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). It is done through the analysis of similarities and differences of the EAEU legal order with those of the EU. It is argued that the notion ‘EU acquis' has been extended beyond the EU and has been...