Ukraine on the way to the European Union: legal integration as one of the most important conditions for acquiring full membership

Abstract

The article examines Ukraine’s path to the European Union. The author analyzes the stages that our country needs to go through in order to acquire full membership in the EU, in particular, before the start of negotiations on accession to the EU, during negotiations on accession to the EU and after the completion of negotiations on accession to the EU and before the candidate country becomes EU member state. Achievements and achievements are highlighted, and what remains to be done in order to approach this goal is clarified.
It has been established that today our state is at the stage of negotiations on joining the European Union, which is shaping the scope of obligations and requirements that Ukraine must fulfill before becoming a full member of the EU. An extremely important component of this stage is the implementation of EU laws and standards.
The analysis of the practice of adapting domestic legislation to EU law proved the existence of various problems that slow down or hinder the process of legal integration, and therefore require immediate resolution.
On this path, Ukraine has already completed many tasks related to the adaptation of domestic legislation to EU law, but no less important work awaits us ahead. After all, some problems remain unresolved and slow down the process of legal integration. In particular, we can attribute the uncoordinated cooperation of all branches of government to these problems; objective difference of historical and socio-cultural development of legal systems; existing personnel policy and bureaucratic system in Ukraine; low level of language training and knowledge in the field of European law of persons engaged in law-making work; disregarding the peculiarities of national culture, national consciousness, national mentality, peculiarities of the historical development of Ukraine and other factors; failure to take into account the economic, political and social consequences of the adoption of relevant legislative acts adapted to the requirements of EU legislation.
As a result of the research, the author concluded that the ways to solve these problems are to take into account the socio-cultural, mental and other features of the Ukrainian nation; taking into account the peculiarities of the national legal system; strengthening cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union; deepening of interaction and coordination between all branches of state power; improvement of legal technology in order to create the most favorable conditions for adapting legislation; taking into account the experience of adapting legislation by other countries in conditions of martial law or armed aggression.
For further scientific research in this direction, it would be appropriate to consider the process of adaptation of Ukrainian legislation in certain legal spheres (judiciary, advocacy, prosecutor’s office, etc.) in order to carry out a more detailed analysis based on taking into account their peculiarities.