The European Union And Ukraine: Lithuania’s Viewpoint
The European Union And Ukraine: Lithuania’s Viewpoint

Summary/Abstract: 1. Strategic Review of Ukraine 1.1. The Outline of the Geopolitical Condition of Ukraine 1.2. Ukraine’s Foreign Policy after Declaration of Independence 1.2.1. Ukraine’s Relations with the Countries of the CIS 1.2.2. Ukraine and Russia 1.2.3. Ukraine’s Relations with the USA 1.2.4. Ukraine’s Relations with the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe 1.2.5. Ukraine and GUUAM 1.3. Problems of Ukraine’s Engagement to Seek EU Membership 2. Perspectives of a Dialogue between the EU and Ukraine 2.1. Review of Relations between the EU and Ukraine 2.2.1. Condition of Democracy and Human Rights in Ukraine 2.2.3. EU support of democratic processes in Ukraine 2.3. Ukraine and EU Co-operation in the Sphere of Justice and Internal Affairs 2.5. Political Economy of the Relations between Ukraine and the EU 2.5.1. Dilemma of the Low Level of Integration and Unfinished Reforms 2.5.2. Problems of Adaptation to the EU Standards 3. Relations between Ukraine and Lithuania within the Context of the EU Enlargement European integration poses one of the most serious challenges to the international community. Today almost nobody doubts that on 1 May 2004 the European Union, having enlarged most likely to include 25 Member States, will change not only the European but also the world policy. At the same time nobody doubts that there still remain lots of questions that the European integration raises. This may be said not only about the internal space – the EU structure, the future of unification trends (economic, legal, those of value), etc. but also about the external ones – the future relations with the neighbours. Speaking about the latter, it is obvious that it is already today that we face the problem of how, with the dividing lines, dividing landmarks of value and clear pragmatic efficiency criteria of the policy being pursued between Western (EU) and Eastern European countries disappearing in the international policy, to identify the optimal mechanism of interaction between the EU and Eastern Europe.

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