The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
Title | The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area PDF eBook |
Author | Guillaume Van der Loo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2016-01-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004298657 |
In The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, Guillaume Van der Loo provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of this complex and controversial international agreement. While key political and legal hurdles towards the signing and conclusion of this agreement are analysed, its scope and contents are scrutinised and contrasted to other international agreements concluded by the EU. Specific attention is devoted to the ambitious “deep and comprehensive free trade area” and the unique provisions related to Ukraine’s approximation to the EU acquis. In particular, this book explores to what extent the agreement can be considered a new legal instrument for ‘EU integration without membership’.
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Its Impacts on Cross-Border Cooperation
Title | The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Its Impacts on Cross-Border Cooperation PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Lačný |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2021-08-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1527573362 |
The implementation of the Association Agreement (AA), including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), between the EU and Ukraine has brought about a qualitatively new situation in the development of border regions and regional societies on both sides of the Schengen border. This volume’s comparative study of the impacts of the AA and the DCFTA on borderlands in Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania will contribute to the identification of new opportunities for cross-border cooperation and policy considerations for its further development.
A new step to the European Integration. The Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine
Title | A new step to the European Integration. The Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine PDF eBook |
Author | Yevgeniya Kozmenko |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 71 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3656984387 |
Diploma Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,3, University of Leipzig, language: English, abstract: The Association Agreement, which was signed between the European Union and Ukraine in 2014, opened a big discussion about new challenges in Europe. Many European countries signed similar Agreements and became very quickly therafter full members of the EU. Nowadays there are a lot of opinions and myths about what exactly the Ukrainian Association is, and, in general, where it should bring Ukraine and Europe. This research paper explores the objectives pursued by the EU and Ukraine by the time they signed the Agreement. It provides a full analysis and interpretation of its content and describes how Ukrainian attempt to get closer to the European Union changed the geo-political situation in Europe. This paper is important as it will cast in light the background of the present tragical events in Ukraine and will provide deeper knowledge about the situation. The main hypotheses of this work are as follows: 1. The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU does not give any guarantees for the accession to the EU and could only be seen as the basis of a prospective future membership. 2. The access to the European integration of Ukraine in the EaP is precluded because of inflexible and “naive” policy of the EU. The ENP has failed and needs to be reconsidered. 3. Russian permanent intervention in the policy decision-making of Ukraine slowdowns its integration towards Western Europe. The paper will be a mixture of description and “data followed by analysis”, going gradually more in depth from the negotiation process to the conclusion of the AA between Ukraine and the EU. To make the argument easy to follow, chronological analysis will be used in dealing with the interval of 2007-2015 (from the beginning of negotiations to the implementation process of the AA).
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep Comprehensive Free Trade Area
Title | The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep Comprehensive Free Trade Area PDF eBook |
Author | Guillaume Van der Loo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2014 |
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The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. An Innovative Instrument of Hierarchical External Governance by the EU?
Title | The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. An Innovative Instrument of Hierarchical External Governance by the EU? PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine Witt |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2016-05-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3668208956 |
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Zentrum für Internationale Studien), course: External Relations of the European Union, language: English, abstract: This paper argues that the Association Agreement (AA) between the EU and the Ukraine that includes the establishment of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) is a prominent example of EU External Governance as it is an unprecedented, innovative legal instrument that will lead to the adoption of a large part of EU laws into Ukrainian national law. The paper hypothesised that the mode of this External Governance relation is rather hierarchical than network- or market-based. The AA with Ukraine served as a template for similar agreements with Moldova and Georgia and replaces the outdated Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCA) with these countries. It recently shifted into the focus of the public in the light of the dramatic events in the Ukraine, starting with the unexpected refusal to sign the Agreement by Ukraine ́s former President Yanukovych in the late 2013. As such alone, it attracts the interest of scholars of International Relations and European Foreign Policy already. Furthermore, it is of significance to the EU itself. Former President of the European Council Van Rompuy had called it “the most advanced agreement of its kind ever negotiated by the European Union”. Therefore, analysing this Agreement more in detail is crucial to understanding new EU external policies towards its neighbours. After an explanatory introduction to the notion of External Governance as a theoretical basis, the paper will try to assess the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement more in-depth. After a short overview over the genesis of the Agreement over the last years, the paper will briefly address the internal legal basis and competencies within the EU with regard to the Agreement. Concluding this empirical chapter, this paper will point out the most important innovative legal aspects of the EU-Ukraine Agreement. These will be of relevance for the final part of this paper in which the main hypothesis − that with the Agreement, the EU is setting rules beyond its borders as part of its External Governance in a hierarchical way − will be assessed. In the concluding section, the findings of the paper will be summarized.
The EU's Association Agreements and DCFTAs with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia: a Comparative Study
Title | The EU's Association Agreements and DCFTAs with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia: a Comparative Study PDF eBook |
Author | Guillaume Van der Loo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | European Union countries |
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This paper compares the three Association Agreements (AAs) and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs) that the EU has concluded with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. It explores, in particular, the main differences in the 'political' and trade-related chapters and the provisions on legislative approximation. Whereas the scope and contents of these agreements are very similar, some specific differences can be identified in view of the different political and economic priorities of the EU's partner countries.
The Prospect of Deep Free Trade Between the European Union and Ukraine
Title | The Prospect of Deep Free Trade Between the European Union and Ukraine PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Emerson |
Publisher | CEPS |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9290796235 |
This book examines the feasibility, content and likely economic impact of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine. The authors find that a simple and shallow free trade agreement, adding only the elimination of tariffs on trade in goods to the conditions for Ukraine's accession to the WTO, is the most easily feasible option, but would yield only modest benefits for Ukraine and less still for the EU. By contrast, they argue that a deep free trade agreement with the EU, while posing more difficult issues of feasibility, could be a centerpiece of an economic strategy leading Ukraine into rapid growth. Politically, this step would be consistent with Ukraine's European choice and would also be of value to the EU economy in meeting the challenges of globalization and Asian competition. Contributors include T. Huw Edwards (Loughborough University), Ildar Gazizullin, Vira Nanivska, and Olga Shumylo (International Centre for Policy Studies, Kyiv), Daniel Müller-Jentsch (European Commission/World Bank Office for South-East Europe), Matthias Lücke (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Valeriy Pyatnytskiy (First Deputy Minister of Economy and European Integration, Ukraine), Andreas Schneider (CEPS), Rainer Schweickert (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), and Olexandr Shevtsov (United Nations Development Program, Ukraine).