THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SOVEREIGNTY AND SUPRANATIONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES WITHIN THE EAEU AND THE EU
Keywords:
sovereignty, supranational, acquis communautaire, integration processes, national security, international organizationAbstract
The article provides a comparative analysis of the legal nature of the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union in the context of the balance between state sovereignty and supranationality in the framework of integration processes. The relevance of the issue lies in the problem of limiting sovereignty when states join international organizations, which is not always in the national interests of these states. The conceptual basis for studying the issue was the principle of the functioning of the European Union – thе acquis communautaire, the essence of which boils down to the fact that member states must adopt the norms of constituent acts, internal EU law, as well as EU international treaties with third countries. The authors concluded that the significant differences between the legal systems of the EU and the EAEU (including different degrees of supranationality, a strictly normative understanding of the content of constituent documents, enshrining in the constitutions of the transfer of part of the sovereign rights to an international organization) do not provide a basis for applying the concept of Acquis in relation to the EAEU in full. Taking into account the negative modern disintegration processes within the EU, the EAEU member states should maintain a balance in combination of the means of national and international legal regulation and develop internal mechanisms to protect the rights and interests of the member states.