Europeanization Through EU External Agreements and the Issue of "Constitutional Identity": the Case of the EU-Armenia CEPA

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2018
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Khvorostiankina, Anna
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Using the concept of “constitutional identity” as a theoretical basis, this article analyses the potential transformative influence of the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on the Armenian legal system. In particular, the author focuses on the Agreement’s capacity to stimulate the implementation of the EU’s “common values” and transpose the norms, general principles, and methodological approaches of EU law into the domestic legal order. It is argued that this potential depends on two elements of the “constitutional identity” of the Armenian legal order: its axiological core and its openness to external influences.
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Europeanization, EU common values, principles of EU law, legislative approximation, legal reforms, constitutional identity, CEPA, Armenia, article
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Khvorostiankina A. Europeanization Through EU External Agreements and the Issue of "Constitutional Identity": the Case of the EU-Armenia CEPA / Anna Khvorostiankina // Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal. - 2018. - No. 4. - P. 15-52.