Venice Commission

The article examines the role of the Venice Commission in the establishment of modern constitutionalism in Ukraine. The guarantee of the protection of constitutionalism is the vocation of the Venice Commission. The work of the European Commission for Democracy through Law is based on three basic principles of the European constitutional heritage: democracy, human rights and the rule of law, which at the same time form the basis of the Council of Europe's work.

The mechanisms of interaction between state power and opposition in European countries have passed through various channels of formation and development. According to this criterion, the states of Europe can be divided into stable democracies with long traditions and young democracies, the formation of which took place at the turn of the 80-90s of the twentieth century respectively. The first group includes France, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, the Benelux countries and the Scandinavian countries.