Organizational and legal forms of intermunicipal cooperation to ensure human rights in the framework of COVID-19 pandemic: Ukraine and European experience
Organizational and legal forms of intermunicipal cooperation to ensure human rights in the framework of COVID-19 pandemic: Ukraine and European experience

Author(s): Elvira Titko, Zhanna Hrushko
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, EU-Legislation, Comparative Law, Administrative Law
Published by: Societatea de Stiinte Juridice si Administrative
Keywords: intermunicipal cooperation; IMC; cross-border cooperation; Council of Europe; human rights; COVID - 19;
Summary/Abstract: The article reveals the international legal regulation and features of inter-municipal cooperation. The author reviews the regulation of IMC in the law of the Council of Europe, and the author focuses on the decisions of the ECtHR. It focuses on the fact that IMC in Europe is a strategy to guarantee the ability to achieve the proper level of development of the territorial community and to ensure the ability to provide quality services to meet the modern challenges of society. In addition, the article reveals different aspects of the benefits of IMC under the quarantine restrictions caused by the spread of COVID-19. And the application and usefulness of IMC in the fields of transport and medicine. The article aims to analyze the European experience of IMC, its role under COVID-19, as well as to identify individual areas that can be applied when implementing the European experience in Ukrainian practice of IMC to ensure human rights and protection against coronavirus infection in conditions of quarantine restrictions. The authors used the following methods in the article: method of analysis and synthesis to study the current situation with IMC; historical-logical method to analyze the formation of legal regulation in European countries and the Council of Europe; legal method to analyze the legal regulation; systematic method to determine the necessity of IMC in Ukraine, as well as under conditions of quarantine restrictions. The authors concluded that, in general, the role of IMC can hardly be overestimated, especially in the context of the global need for security and human rights.

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