Iryna Naslidnyk

Abstract After EU enlargement and its approaching to the Ukrainian borders, the development of cross-border cooperation with neighbor countries–members of EU has become extremely important. The integration processes shift from national to the regional and local levels. The Ukrainian-Polish cross-border cooperation should be aimed at: the intensification of European integration due to the development of the long-term Ukrainian-Polish relations on the innovative basis; the elimination of the institutional obstacles for the structure changes in Ukrainian economy by means of the implementation of the European standards of economic activities; the providing of the maximum possible mobility of technologies, capitals, labor, goods and services; the coordination of strategic programs for boundary regions development in order to enhance their competitive advantages. The cross-border cooperation is restrained by the barriers, such as: political, economical, infrastructural, legal, organizational, social. The current state of the Ukrainian-Polish cross-border cooperation shows that both in Poland and Ukraine there is a need for assuming the complex political, economical, technical, organizational and ecological measures which have to minimize the negative exposures of existing barriers. The boundary situation of regions should be taken as an advantage for social-economy development that has to facilitate the transit potential of the border territories.

Keywords: cross-border cooperation, free movement of persons, commodities, services and capital, political, economic, infrastructural, legal, organizational and technical barriers, investment cooperation, foreign trade, boundary transportation infrastructure, cross

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APA: Pysarenko, S., & Naslidnyk, I. (2010). The International Conditions of Ukrainian-Polish Cross-Border Cooperation. Europa XXI, 20, 89-99. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2010.20.7
MLA: Pysarenko, Svitlana, and Naslidnyk, Iryna. "The International Conditions of Ukrainian-Polish Cross-Border Cooperation". Europa XXI, vol. 20, 2010, pp. 89-99. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2010.20.7
Chicago: Pysarenko, Svitlana, and Naslidnyk, Iryna. "The International Conditions of Ukrainian-Polish Cross-Border Cooperation". Europa XXI 20 (2010): 89-99. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2010.20.7
Harvard: Pysarenko, S., & Naslidnyk, I. 2010. "The International Conditions of Ukrainian-Polish Cross-Border Cooperation". Europa XXI, vol. 20, pp. 89-99. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2010.20.7