Report - Legal Issues Arising from the Implementation of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine

The Association Agreement (AA) between the EU and Ukraine is characterized by two specific features: comprehensiveness, and conditionality. However, it does not clarify the perspectives of the relations between the EU and Ukraine. In this regard, we might observe that the EU Members States do not share a common vision. They have often different positions on various priority legal and political issues, from migration to foreign policy, including relations with Ukraine, the other Eastern Partnership countries, and Russia . On the other hand, it is important to highlight the efforts of the EU in financially supporting the process of reform in Ukraine, and of Ukraine towards constitutional and legislative reforms reinforcing the European choice. New legislation has been adopted in various sectors. The Government and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine have developed this new legislation with the aim to implement the AA notwithstanding the difficult political and administrative situation following the events in Crimea, the Donbass conflict, the worsening of the relations with Russia until the termination of the Treaty of Friendship and the adoption of the Martial Law.