TRANSBORDER REGIONAL ASYMMETRIES IN EUROPE: THE CASE OF EUROPEAN UNION AND EAST-EUROPEAN NEIGHBORING NATIONS

Authors

  • V.I. CHUZHYKOV Head of the European Integration Department Kyiv National University of Economics named after Vadym Hetman Ph.D, D.S., professor
  • O.A. FEDIRKO Deputy Head of the European Integration Department Kyiv National University of Economics named after Vadym Hetman Ph.D., associate professor

Keywords:

Regional development policy, the European Union, economic development asymmetry, convergence, divergence

Abstract

 The article is devoted to the research of the major trends and factors of emerging regional asymmetry axis along the eastern border of the EU. Among the important factors of divergent economic development between the EU regions, on the one hand, and the bordering regions of eastern neighboring states (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova), on the other hand, the complimentary model of depressive regions financing by the common EU budget, static and dynamic effects of integration, poor regional policies of the post-soviet states et al. were stressed. The high (in comparison with the EU) and ever-growing level of variation of economic development of national regions of Ukraine was identified.

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No. 1 (2011)

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