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Abstract
The state of the EU–Ukraine relations cannot be comprehended without a profound understanding of its historical, legal, and political evolution. In fact, the EU–Ukraine relations have always mirrored the entire complexity of the EU's external policies, ambitions, and difficulties of the EU enlargement and today's search for EU strategic autonomy.
The objective of this article is to fill in the gap and to offer a three-dimensional analysis of the EU–Ukraine relations. The first dimension is the study of the historical evolution of the EU–Ukraine relations from the time of Ukraine's independence in 1991 till Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Therein the EU–Ukraine relations are looked through the prism of geopolitical changes within and outside the EU. The full independence of Ukraine in 1991, so- called 'Orange revolution' in 2005 and the 'Revolution of Dignity' in 2014 have been linked to the evolving EU policies towards Ukraine and the entire post-Soviet area. The second dimension is a legal scrutiny of the main contractual documents between the EU and Ukraine since 1991. This article offers an in-depth study of bilateral EU–Ukraine agreements (Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1998 and Association Agreement of 2014). The third dimension is an attempt to comprehend how Ukraine's bid for full EU membership in 2022 could help to stop the blatant military and humanitarian aggression by Russia and to contribute to a fair peace deal.
The purpose of this article is to set out the framework of the study of EU relations with third countries in context of historical evolution of such country, geopolitical challenges around it, and legal nature of bilateral contractual tools and policies that, eventually, may lead either to a gradual integration with the EU or to the full EU membership.

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This article focuses on challenges and successes of the implementation and application of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which triggered unprecedented political, economic and legal reforms in Ukraine. This article focuses on the constitutional challenges that have arisen for Ukraine in the course of implementing the Association Agreement into its legal system. Two issues form the core of the paper. The first issue is effective implementation and application of the Association Agreement within the Ukrainian legal order. The second issue is compatibility between the Association Agreement and the Ukrainian Constitution. The latest political and legal developments in Ukraine are analyzed through the prism of effective implementation of the Association Agreement and the rise of pro-European judicial activism in Ukraine. In conclusion it is argued that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement enhanced the adaptability of the national constitutional order to the European integration project and European common values.

This contribution deals with the legal and constitutional aspects of the implementation of the association agreements between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in a comparative perspective. It argues that the legal frameworks of the association agreements, which have the objectives to establish a unique form of political association and economic integration, are characterised by three specific features: comprehensiveness, complexity and conditionality. After a brief background of the EU relations with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, the following aspects are scrutinised: legal basis and objectives, institutional framework and mechanisms of enhanced conditionality and legislative approximation. In addition, constitutional challenges for the effective implementation of the association agreements between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova and Georogia are discussed. Based upon a comparison with other EU external agreements, it is demonstrated that the association agreements are innovative legal instruments providing for a new type of integration without membership.Key words: association agreements, the European Union, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, constitutions, implementation. Досліджено юридичні та конституційні аспекти угод про асоціацію між ЄС і Україною, Молдовою і Грузією в порівняльній перспективі. Наголошено, що угоди про асоціацію, які мають на меті створити унікальну форму політичної асоціації та економічної інтеграції між ЄС і Україною, Молдовою та Грузією, характеризуються трьома особливостями: комплексністю, складністю й умовністю.Проаналізовано такі питання правового характеру: правові засади та цілі угод про асоціацію між ЄС і Україною, Молдовою та Грузією; інститути та механізми реалізації політики умовності; правове регулювання зближення законодавства. Крім того, вивчено проблеми імплементації угод про асоціацію між ЄС і Україною, Молдовою і Грузією в правові національні системи цих країн.На підставі порівняння з угодами ЄС з іншими країнами показано, що угоди про асоціацію між ЄС і Україною, Молдовою і Грузією є інноваційними правовими актами, які забезпечують інтеграцію України, Молдови та Грузії в ЄС без формального членства.Ключові слова: угоди про асоціацію, Європейський Союз, Україна, Молдова, Грузія, конституція, імплементація.

The European Union (eu) is in search of an appropriate and efficient framework of relations with its neighbours. Recent events show that the eu has failed to prevent escalating civil conflicts in many regions of Ukraine in the eu neighbourhood. This contribution scrutinizes the current eu external policies towards its Eastern neighbours. The first part of the chapter studies the scope and content of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership and their impact on security in the region. The second part of the paper analyses the impact of the eu neighbourhood policies on the 'post-Crimea' and 'post-Donbass' eu neighbourhood.