BILATERAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND SLOVAKIA
BILATERAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND SLOVAKIA

Author(s): Martin Lačný
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, International relations/trade, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, Filozofická fakulta, Inštitút politológie
Keywords: economic relations between Ukraine and Slovakia;
Summary/Abstract: The Slovak-Ukrainian border has been changing in the course of the following periods: a) 1993 ‒ 2004: the bilateral intergovernmental regime of the border; b) 2004–2017 the “communitary” regime of the border between the EU and Ukraine, and c) the expected new border regime after the signing and subsequent full implementation of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Agreement (DCFTA) as well as an agreement on a visa-free regime between the EU and Ukraine.18 Recently, we can identify two key exogenous factors determining political opportunity structure for cross-border cooperation (further in the text ‒ CBC) and trans-border regional development on the Slovak-Ukrainian border as a part of the external border of the EU: 1) EU CBC programmes, including the programmes of the European Neighbourhood Policy; and 2) the national policies of the Slovak Republic as an EU-member country and Ukraine as a neighbouring country sharing an EU external border. As documented by results of the research projects EXLINEA (Scott and Matzeit 2006), EUDIMENSIONS (Buchner and Scott 2009) and EUBORDERREGIONS (Final Report 2015), understanding of the particular political opportunity structure may contribute to building capacities of CBC actors to make the best use of opportunities brought by AA/DCFTA and thus consequently to boost economic development of the Slovak-Ukrainian borderland regions.

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