ALGORITHMS OF THEORETICAL AND LEGAL BASIS OF VISA LIBERALIZATION PROCESSES – TODAY'S CHALLENGES

Abstract

The scientific article examines the theoretical and legal foundations of visa liberalization processes between Ukraine and the countries of the European Union, focusing attention on today's challenges in the conditions of full-scale military aggression, globalist influences and challenges. Since the time of independence, Ukraine has been confidently on course for integration into the European community. This is a long-term and difficult process - a process of legal, economic, cultural, social, and political regulation, coordination, as well as unification of structures and functions into a correspondingly adapted system. Now, European integration, its structures, and mechanisms, are built due to the expansion of the European Union and the Council of Europe. The European choice and the strategic, vital interests of Ukrainians today, in the conditions of a terrible, bloody war unleashed by the Russian military, are in objective realities without alternatives and inalienable. Practically, today on the agenda is the question whether Ukraine, located in the central part of Europe, will be able to remain an independent, independent state? EU countries, and not only, take actions to help Ukraine, which are primarily aimed at preserving territorial integrity, sovereignty, and defense capability. They provide military aid, conduct military training for soldiers in accordance with NATO standards, accepted and provided housing and education for refugees from Ukraine, mothers, children, elderly people, pensioners on their territory, according to unofficial estimates, more than six million Ukrainians are currently living in connection with the war in Europe. They provide free medical treatment and rehabilitation of wounded military personnel and civilians who suffered serious gunshot wounds and mutilations because of Russian military aggression. Thoughtful, controlled, pragmatic, legal approaches to migration processes would give significant dynamism and positive effect of effectively simplifying the possibility of movement and movement of individuals in the mechs of the European space, proper provision of controllability of these processes, comprehensive security of residents of EU countries from the negativity of illegal migration processes, violations of rights and freedoms of citizens of the European Union countries, and related potential risks from illegal migration. The theoretical and legal analysis of visa liberalization processes provides grounds for stating, in the author's opinion, insufficient legal security of these approaches, understandings and interpretations, which accordingly has a negative impact on the effectiveness of regulatory and legal assurance. The slowness and inconsistency of reforms, massive large-scale corruption, can become the real reasons for which relations between Ukraine and the EU will move into the phase of canceling the visa-free regime, and accordingly, there can be no question of any visa liberalization. Unfortunately, such negative trends are not unique in today's realities