Affiliation:
1. State Scientific Organization “Ukrainian Institute of Scientific Technical and Expertise and Information”
Abstract
Cross-border cooperation is a key element of the European Union’s policy towards its member countries. It supports sustainable development along the external borders of the Union, helps reduce differences in living standards and solve common problems along these borders. Also, this type of cooperation helps to strengthen cooperation between individual regions that do not have a common border.
In addition, the European Union’s policy towards cross-border cooperation also applies to states that are not its members. Such states include Ukraine, which has a fairly significant and productive history of cooperation with some European countries in the areas of cross-border interaction.
Ukrainian-Slovak cooperation has a long history of formation and development with periods of prosperity and solutions to problems and disputes. Traditional weaknesses in relations between Kyiv and Bratislava include issues of uneven investment potential, controversial issues regarding the Slovak national minorities in western Ukraine, etc. However, the positive aspects of cooperation predominate – trade and economic relations, political ties (which tend to generally strengthen during the period of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine), scientific and technical cooperation.
It is cross-border cooperation between Ukraine and Slovakia in the field of innovatization of all processes of interstate interaction through the implementation of joint scientific projects and initiatives – both within the framework of bilateral relations and within the European Union – that lays a solid foundation for the further development of not only national states, but also the entire European continent. This factor is especially relevant for maintaining the trends of sustainable development of the Union member countries and the harmonious process of Ukraine’s European integration into it.
Publisher
State Scientific Institution - Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Info
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