Prospects, Essence and Constitutionally Legal Features of the Eurasian Union

The article considers some prospects for creation of the Common Economic Space between Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia. The formation of this body is a crucial step on the post-Soviet territory and a manifestation of a world integration tendency. The author proposes to consistently develop normative - law base of Eurasia integration, notes the need of rapprochement of legislations, their unification in the spheres which are defined by agreements drafting the contractual-legal base of the Common Economic Space. The following unification processes prove that the future means implementation of the principle of integration at different speed and at different levels and the search for new legal forms and constructions for prospective integration bodies enabling to save the main constitutional and legal basis, i.e. state sovereignty. The world order of the XX century in an international and legal sense has been based on the fundamental concept of sovereignty of a nation state which is the main subject of the International Law. However, this world order with its mechanisms and institutions, on the whole of democratic international communication, is gradually becoming a thing of the past. The principle of state sovereignty itself in the face of such processes as integration, emergence of new integration groups, caused by the life itself, is subjected to changes. Still, the author believes, this does not mean a crisis of sovereignty. Regarding the Eurasian Union, the issue concerns a problem of shared sovereignty, when "the inherent powers" are allocated between supranational Centre and the States belonging to this union. The author believes that the Eurasian Union represents a model of a powerful supranational organization, capable of being one of the poles of the modern world and at the same time to act as an effective "communicator" between Europe and the dynamic Asia-Pacific region. Needless to say that we do not mean any reconstruction of the Soviet Union, any " restoration " or "reincarnation"of the USSR neither now, nor in the future. This is just a phantom of the past, nonentities and speculations.

state sovereignty, integration processes, constitutionalism, statehood, constitution, the Commonwealth of independent States, political sovereignty, Eurasian Union, Common Economic Space

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