The System Principles of the Development and Implementation of the State Policy of Ensuring the Competitiveness of the Regions of Ukraine in the Conditions of European Integration

Abstract

The importance of ensuring the competitiveness of the regions in solving the problems of strengthening foreign integration development on the part of the State is substantiated. The necessity of deepening Ukraine’s European integration in the context of countering external hybrid aggression and internal instability is emphasized. The threats that have long hindered both the socioeconomic development of the regions of Ukraine and their competitiveness and the country as a whole have been identified. We have to deal with structural disproportions and deformations of the regional economy, lack of stable and effective interregional economic ties, low efficiency of the institutional regional economic management system, regional asymmetry of interbudgetary relations, significant regional differentiation of the economy, import and export dependence of the regional economy, low quality of strategic programming of the regional economy. It is proved that the success of overcoming obstacles and threats is due to the formation of an internal institutional system, which should contain program documents. According to this, an urgent need to develop a National Strategy for ensuring the competitiveness of the State and its regions is specified. It is determined that at the regional level, the development and implementation by public administration and local self-government bodies of instruments to ensure increasing the level of competitiveness of regions should be recognized as key principles of the State policy. It is concluded that integral instruments for the implementation of the State policy to ensure the competitiveness of Ukrainian regions in the context of strengthening national European integration development should be considered the following: structural reforms and institutional changes in the socioeconomic development of region; creating a favorable regional investment climate; implementation of innovation policy (increasing the role of the regional component in the National Innovation System); ensuring budget and financial self-sufficiency of regions and decentralization of their financial competencies; improvement of regional economic policy; development of the export-import potential of territories.

Keywords

• competitiveness of regions
• the state policy
• european integration
• instruments
• threats