Ukraine's Way to the Eu: Public Administration Reform

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of reforming the sphere of public administration on the way to European integration. On June 23, 2022, the heads of 27 EU member states and their governments decided to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for the EU. It was revealed that against the background of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the process of European integration of Ukraine acquires a new meaning, its active stage involves the adoption of relevant decisions and the adoption of relevant regulatory and legal acts. It was determined that corruption schemes in the sphere of public administration have a lot of destructive consequences in the socio-economic sphere, therefore, taking into account such aspects, a plan for reforming the sphere of public administration in the direction of the European integration of Ukraine was developed. In order to build an effective public administration system in Ukraine, it is envisaged to implement work in four directions: parliamentary reform, reforming central executive bodies and approximation to EU governance standards, reform in the system of local executive bodies, reform in the field of local self-government. It is believed that an important direction of European integration should be the creation of a system of state support (state + business) for institutions of civil society, with the aim of including them on a competitive basis in the preparation of proposals (participation in development) in the field of public administration and their legislative support. On the path of Ukraine's European integration, it is also envisaged to continue reforming the management of state-owned enterprises in order to control state assets more deeply. On the way to European integration, our country will have to introduce and adopt a sufficient number of changes, but given the way Ukraine defends its independence, there are good reasons to claim that Ukraine is a truly worthy candidate for EU membership. It should be emphasized that due to the circumstances that have developed in general, Ukraine has the opportunity to quickly join the EU within the framework of existing procedures. However, it should not be forgotten that the EU may decide to create a special regime to speed up the accession process. This will bring Ukraine closer to the completion of formal accession to the European Union, but not to the final completion of European integration, which is connected with the fact that in order to fully comply with the standards of the European Union, a number of reforms need to be carried out, among which the reform of public administration in the context of ensuring economic growth takes a decisive place of Ukraine.