European Union

In the article, the authors analyze Ukraine in the context of the Eastern Partnership. It is pointed out that Ukraine needs to modernize the economy and strengthen its position both in the Eastern European market and in the European Union. The authors of the article emphasize that Ukraine should implement institutional reforms and rationally manage the funds raised from the European Union. It is also considered that in order to attract more investors Ukraine must also create good conditions for foreign investors to increase their (and thus the state’s) income.

The article considers a notion of energy diplomacy and peculiarities of its conduction, defines primary tasks for development of energy diplomacy in the foreign policy of Ukraine. With the help of historical, systemic, and structural functional methods, it is revealed that interstate collaboration in the form of energy diplomacy pursues the national interest of a state through applying a wide range of classical and specific foreign policy actions, and creates additional means of counteracting global contemporary challenges connected with the energy sector.

The algorithm of the ground of maintenance and sequence of steps which are necessary for the effective management of procedures for Ukrainian integration into a world economy, in particular, for the entry into European Union (EU), is investigated. The  presence of corresponding factors is examined as  pre-condition of expediency of European direction of integration of Ukraine and active activity of legislative and executive bodies of  management of Ukraine in this direction  etc..