SOME LESSONS FROM EUROPEAN INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to how the events of 2022 and early 2023. influenced the process of integration of Ukraine economic and political space of the European Union. She would hardly have survived without the assistance of the EU member states. For it, the question of the forms, pace and timing of European integration for Kyiv has evolved from much theoretical to practical and urgent. The speed of its restoration will also depend on the answer to this question, and the future of the EU, its «strategic autonomy» will depend on how and when the armed conflict and political crisis in Eastern Europe will end. How everything that has happened to Ukraine during this time has affected the process of its integration with the EU is difficult to assess unequivocally. On the one hand, one of its main conditions - achieving a level of development comparable to other EU countries, economic and political-legal compatibility, geopolitical risks have increased as well. The armed conflict has exacerbated the ongoing difficulties of transformation. On the other hand, doubts about the viability of the Ukrainian state, the stability of its foreign policy orientation have eased, mutual rapprochement has accelerated at the economic, political and (due to mass emigration to EU member states) even at the personal levels. There is an obvious need to rethink and clarify the objectives of the relevant policy, the possibilities, ways and timing of their achievement.

Keywords

• ukraine
• eu
• european integration of ukraine
• ukrainian transit
• third ukrainian republic