Ukraine and the EU. The need for developing an between Ukraine and the EU, analyses the main directions of cooperation between priorities of Ukraine's integration strategy, determines the legal aspects of relations and the EU with using modern assessment methods. It outlines the geopolitical examines the trends and prospects of the development of relations between Ukraine competitiveness of domestic producers, access to world markets. The article attracting foreign investments and new technologies, creating new jobs, increasing way of modernizing the economy, overcoming technological backwardness, the key priority of Ukraine's foreign policy. For Ukraine, European integration is the