Russian Federation
This article discusses some of the features of modern international regional associations of states that emerged in the last decades. In such alliances established for the economic, social and cultural integration in order to accelerate economic and social development of member-states, there are sometimes elements of political, public nature, a kind of germ unfinished and non-sovereign power vis-à-vis member states. In the European Union with a high degree of centralization, the boundary elements of its public authority organs include the state powers which, in accordance with the constitutions of the member states have voluntarily handed over to the EU; elements of the public power of its organs include the state authorities which, in accordance with the constitutions of the member states have voluntarily handed over by them to the EU; in the EU there is a possibility of imposing obligations on the member states by taking decisions by a majority of the members of its main institutions (major organs); in the constituent documents of the EU contains some political objectives, and some facts about EU activities are political in nature; on the territory of the EU, in parallel with the law of the member states acted superior, although incomplete (it does not include and cannot include some branches of law) supranational EU law which is created by its organs and without the following: interpellations and ratification such acts by ember states directly apply to natural and legal persons of the member states; the member states by the amendments in the constitutions voluntarily self-restricted some elements of its national sovereignty, but they retain their sovereignty, and the EU, not being a state, state sovereignty has not; in determining the structure of the organs of the EU, their authorities, relationships are widely used approaches the constitutional right, although all of these issues are essential features in the EU; in the EU there are elements of statehood, which naturally: the EU members are states that impose their imprint and the EU. The EU is a public law formation of special kind. Having said that, in determining the form of the EU could be in the categories of politology, science of state and the constitutional right to name the EU regional integrational international governmental (or regional integrational international similar state) public legal formation.
The European Union, public legal formation, supranational law, state sovereignty.
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