EU Common Values in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Anchor to Democracy?
Journal: Baltic Journal of European Studies
Year: 2018

Abstract This article analyses the Association Agreement (AA) between the EU and Ukraine. It argues that this agreement constitutes a new legal framework which has the objective to establish a unique form of political association and economic integration, characterised by three specific features: comprehensiveness, complexity and conditionality, and to promote EU values into the legal systems of Ukraine. The article studies substantive and procedural means of promotion and protection of EU value