Ukraine's participation in the

global integration process. 

The three-step program.
Presentation made by Tkachuk Vitalii MVK-41
Between two mastodonts
 Ukraine's position between the Russian Federation and
the European Union determines its special European function: its
historical, cultural and, most importantly, family and personal
ties with Russia, on the one hand, and its Polish and Habsburg
heritage, on the other - forms a wide "intersection of sets"
between Russia and Europe. After Ukraine gained state
independence, gradual integration into European structures and
the establishment of multilateral cooperation with the EU became
its main geostrategic priorities.
A brief history 
 Following the first Ukraine-EU summit in September 1997,
Ukraine's leadership issued a statement of intent to become an EU
associate partner. At the second summit in June 1998,
Ukraine expressed its interest in developing a long-term strategy
for bilateral relations with the EU, noting that Ukraine's European
choice remains unchanged and its place as a Central European
state in modern Europe is clearly defined. Ukraine's undisputed
priority is to acquire associate and then full membership in the EU.
To implement this course, the President signed a decree of
February 24, 1998 "On ensuring the implementation of the
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Ukraine and the
EU and mproving the mechanism of cooperation with the EU" and
a decree of June 11, 1998 "On approval of Ukraine's integration
strategy to European Union".
New priorities in cooperation
 The world has entered an era of radical socioeconomic change caused by the latest
technological revolution, which, as we know, is connected with a number of significant
technological innovations, which, inter alia, include:1 nanosensors and the Internet of
nanothings, which ensure miniaturisation of connection to networks; blockchain
technologies, as revolutionary decentralised systems based on trust; open AI ecosystems,
which allow to transition from “artificial” to “contextual” intelligence. Central role in the
group of digital technologies is that of big data analytics and artificial intelligence. All of
these technological innovations cause profound and extensive changes in the nature of
economic relations, reformatting their very foundation. On the other hand, they are greatly
expedited by the COVID-19 pandemic, which having launched a strong blow on various
economic sectors in most countries, simultaneously created unprecedented possibilities for
developing business in virtual digital environment, which greatly accelerated formation of
new “low touch economy”.
In the process of Agreement implementation, Ukraine
predominantly carries out various institutional transformations
based on EU templates, while the issue of creating conditions for
broader involvement of Ukrainian businesses and organisations in
the cooperation remain in the background. 
In this situation there is a pronounced lack of analysis of the real
efficiency of reforms that are being implemented, which in many
cases (reforms in manufacturing, healthcare, science and
education) have rather progressed in destroying the previously
created, than creating new development potential. We need to bear
in mind that the course of reforms that does not bring new quality
to socio-economic development, will sooner or later face rejection
by the Ukrainian population.
Step №1 
 Deepening cooperation in science and technology
and intensifying the introduction of new
contactless technologies. We need to admit
that despite the formal opening of a number of
European programmes for Ukrainian participants
and access to funds and resources provided by
European institutions, the real access to them is
still extremely limited. Thus, according to CORDIS
EU system, Ukraine’s participation in the broadly
publicised programme “Horizon 2020” includes
only 286 projects (2.44% of the total quantity for
associated countries), in the framework of which
203 grants were signed.
Step №2
Expanding cooperation in the field of healthcare and
pharmaceuticals. In the context of the above, special emphasis
should be placed on creating a qualitatively new mechanism of
interaction in the field of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, – in
response to the new challenges of COVID-19. Unfortunately, the
pandemic has shown the obvious flaws in this interaction. And the
problem is not even that specific shipments of medical goods for
Ukrainian medical institutions come mainly from other sources,10
but that Ukrainian organisations and enterprises working in the
field of medicine and pharmaceuticals are on the sidelines of the
main routes of interaction aimed at developing means of
overcoming the coronavirus. Among other things, this is
demonstrated by the fact that at the special European Research Area
corona platform there was not a single Ukrainian project or
participant at the end of October 2020.
Step №3

Strengthening cooperation in business and employment guarantees.

Interaction at the level of business structures is the Achilles’ heel of
Ukraine’s eurointegration course, which still mainly focuses on interaction
at the official state level. As a result, the depth of Ukraine’s eurointegration
remains minimal. Unlike the experience of European integration of post-
socialist Central European countries, Ukrainian enterprises still have not
become part of European value chains – and this largely explains the decline
of industry we currently observe in Ukraine: Russian markets have been
lost, production networks – dismantled, and new – European ones – have
not been created.