Prospects for the Development of the Concept of Permanent Neutrality in the Context of International Legal Status of Austria (Part I)

Abstract

Since securing an internationally legal status of permanent neutrality of Austria continues to play a significant role in providing both its national and regional and global security. This particular personality ensured that state opportunities for sustainable peaceful development and is not accompanied by restriction of its sovereignty to prove its compliance with the fundamental norms and principles of international law, and furthermore contributed to their compliance as one of the necessary legal guarantees. The fact that Austria’s neutrality is not equivalent to self-isolation confirmed later entry into the European Union. However, it should be noted, and the fact that membership of the state with a given supranational organization, which is essentially a political and economic union, ambiguously perceived in some scientific and official circles, and by the way, not only within the country itself but also outside it. Disputes are mainly about the fact that Austria is at the same time maintaining its recognized status is slowly being drawn in by the reformed and is now in the EU military structures. How compatible in this respect the rights and obligations of Austria with its constitutional law and the UN Charter, the main subject of research of this article.