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Article title Ukraine is a Driving Force in the Establishment of Freedom, Democracy, Security, Human Rights and the Rule of Law as the Fundamental Principles of a New World and European Legal Order
Authors
NATALIIA KAMINSKA
Doctor of Law, Professor, Leading Research Fellow of the Department of International Law and European Union Law, V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine) ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7239-8893 na-pro@ukr.net
VOLODYMYR DEMIDENKO
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law and Human Rights of the National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine) ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6771-0080 dvo2012dvo@gmail.com
Magazine name Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version)
Magazine number 3 / 2025
Pages 25 - 42
Annotation

Given the need to form a qualitatively new world and European legal order, the article draws attention to the importance of consistent and systematic scientific and expert support of relevant processes at the national, supranational and international levels. First of all, it is about revealing the nature and essence, legal basis and features of implementation, the significance of such values: freedom, peace, democracy, security, the rule of law, human rights – as fundamental postulates of the existence and stable prospective development of human civilization. In the conditions of russian aggression, not only Ukraine is under threat, but also the leveling of international law, the system of ensuring international peace and security, and Euro-Atlantic cooperation. However, it is noted that the Ukrainian people demonstrate a high level of development of European culture and consciousness, identity and stability, the potential to be a driver of modernization of national, supranational and international legal orders. There are attempts to prevent Ukraine from consolidating the democratic European and world community by forcing it to sign various versions of marauding humiliating agreements (great best deals). However, the implementation of such a plan will deprive the democratic world of the core, the driving force of modern democracy – Ukraine. Despite the desire to destroy the existing system of ensuring world law, global economy and EuroAtlantic security, with a high degree of probability it is possible to predict the complete cessation of pan-American world domination. Therefore, the leadership in establishing the values of respect for human rights and freedoms, democracy, the rule of law as the basic postulates of a qualitatively new European, and in the future, world, law should be taken by the EU.

Based on the analysis, proposals have been formulated regarding the need to improve the founding documents of the EU, the procedure for developing and adopting decisions in the EU, and resolving the security issue for the EU through the immediate accession of Ukraine to the EU as the most effective way to curtail moscow’s authoritarian-imperialist ambitions.

Keywords Ukraine; freedom; democracy; security; rule of law; human rights; defense; legal order; legal understanding; European Union; affirmation; international law; digital space; public authority
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