THE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EU AND UKRAINE IN THE PERIOD OF INTENSIFYING INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN THE POST-SOVIET AREA

Mostly preferable geopolitical position of Ukraine at the same time causes a permanent choice problem for Ukrainian government – East or West – that at the current period means a choice between two integration projects. This is a choice not only of the economic meaning, but both political and ideological ones for the Ukrainian people. If one of these projects is the long-established – the European Union, the second one is just foreseen to be created as the final level of integration processes at the Post-Soviet area – the Eurasian Union. Summit in Brussels held on the 25th of February 2013 was supposed to be one more new step to Ukrainian cooperation with the EU and distinguishing the western integration vector of Ukraine as the key tendency of its foreign policy. Will the planned signing of the Association Agreement in November 2013 become real while the integration project within post-soviet area is intensifying extremely? The author tries to find out the possible ways of solving the mentioned choice-problem of Ukraine at the current period.