Title: The right for freedom uniting in political parties: experience of Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany

Authors: Olha I. Kosilova; Mykhailo H. Kravchenko; Ivan P. Fedirko

Addresses: Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine ' Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine ' Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract: The article contains the analysis devoted to the study of the right for freedom uniting in political parties for Ukraine and Germany. The purpose of the article is to study international standards, borders of ensuring and grounds for interference in the exercise of the right for freedom uniting in political parties in Ukraine and Germany. In undertaking the study of research, it had been used a wide range of scientific and special juridical methods of scientific cognition including comparative-legal, formal-legal methods, method of terminological analysis and formal-logic method, and methods of modelling and forecasting. As a result of the conducted research, it has been stated that the legal regulation of the right for freedom uniting into political parties in Ukraine generally complies with international and European standards. The peculiarity of the German party legislation as compared to the Ukrainian one on absence of restrictions for civil servants, as well as for military personnel on the right to be a member of a political party, has been revealed.

Keywords: human rights; freedom of association; guaranteeing the right; realisation of the right; Ukraine; Germany.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2022.119446

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2022 Vol.9 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Received: 05 Mar 2021
Accepted: 24 Mar 2021
Published online: 05 Dec 2021 *

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