European Union’s Legal System: Essential Features and Tendencies of Modern Development

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to determine the essential features of the EU legal system, as well as the tendencies of its modern development. The article employs a variety of research methods, including systemic and structural, dialectical, formal and legal, and comparative approaches. This paper uses an approach that looks at the structural parts of the EU legal system, how they interact with national legal rules, and how modern international legal processes affect all of these things. The correlation between legal norms, institutional structures, and the axiological foundations of the EU legal system receives particular attention. The author has analyzed the current processes of the EU expansion and strengthening its influence on other states, resulting in the growing influence of its law on the legal systems of other states, primarily those that are candidates for joining the EU. It was decided that the way the EU's legal system is changing today shows that the EU wants to adapt its own legal system to modern challenges, strengthen its institutional and ideological foundation, and make sure that the rights and freedoms of its citizens are protected at the right level while also promoting integration between EU member states. The study's findings can be used to improve Ukraine's national legislation, to adapt legal norms to EU standards, and to develop strategies for harmonizing national law with the EU legal system. It will strengthen Ukraine's institutional capacity in the process of European Union integration.