European Experience of Promoting Humanitarian Values for Developing Eurasian Integration: Future Guidelines

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the theoretical issues of developing and promoting Eurasian integration on the basis of humanistic values formed under the auspices of the Council of Europe and the European Union. The research focuses on the activity of the Council of Europe Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) from the point of view of the theoretical and international legal analysis of its law enforcement activities in order to implement the promotion of European humanistic values. The aim of the article is to analyze the approaches developed within the Council of Europe and the European Union in promoting humanistic values and the opportunity of using it for the development of integration within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. Among the scholar methods used in the article are: dialectical method, philosophical method, formal logical method, system-structural method, historical method, formal-legal method, method of interpreting law, comparative legal method, method of expert evaluation, method of legal modeling and forecasting. When applying the general methods of cognition mentioned above, structuring, description, content analysis, synthesis of the results of work were used as research techniques too. Based on the analysis the article draws the conclusions about the necessity in further development of the law of the Eurasian Economic Union not only as an exclusively economic integration association, but with the addition of new important spheres of international legal cooperation of member states to the competence of the Union through international legal channels. In this regard, the analysis of legal regulation in the European Union, as well as the Council of Europe, suggests that the scope of international legal regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union can include the issues of human rights protection, the expansion of judicial cooperation, the development of a joint anti-corruption policy on the basis of a relevant international document, the regulation of the interaction of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union on the prevention and elimination of emergency situations of natural and man-induced disasters on the basis of a special international agreement, the creation of a united ecological and environmental policy.