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In The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area , Guillaume Van der Loo provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of this complex and controversial international agreement.

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In The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area , Guillaume Van der Loo provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of this complex and controversial international agreement. While key political and legal hurdles towards the signing and conclusion of this agreement are analysed, its scope and contents are scrutinised and contrasted to other international agreements concluded by the EU. Specific attention is devoted to the ambitious "deep and comprehensive free trade area" and the unique provisions related to Ukraine´s approximation to the EU acquis. In particular, this book explores to what extent the agreement can be considered a new legal instrument for ´EU integration without membership´.

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"This is a very useful book that addresses an obvious gap in EU external relations literature. The mere exercise of mapping out the legal contours of the EU-Ukraine AA and DCFTA would have been a worthwhile endeavour on its own. However, the study clearly goes beyond this. It provides a detailed account of the EU´s efforts to expand the reach of its rules in the Ukraine as well as the constitutional and political constraints that have shaped this project. As such, it represents an important contribution to the literature on EU external governance and EU external relations law and policy."
- Billy Melo Araujo Lecturer, Queen´s Belfast University, Belfast , in: Common Law Market Review

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Guillaume Van der Loo, Ph.D. (2014), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent European Law Institute (GELI) and researcher at the Europe in the World Unit of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He has published on, inter alia, the legal framework of the EU´s neighbourhood relations and EU free trade agreements.

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