100(1-2), 2009

Economic Annals-ХХІ

ISSN 1728-6220 (Print)

ISSN 1728-6239 (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea

Volume 100, Issue 1-2

February 10, 2009

CONTENTS

ECONOMICS

Valeriy Novytskyi
Global financial-economic crisis: the essence, systematic displaying and prospects of overcoming 3-4

Meeting of the Ukrainian Club of Economists
Results of 2008 financial-economic year and 2009 forecasts 5

Oleh Soskin
Economic chaos and poverty are likely to become Ukraine’s features in 2009 5-6

Serhiy Yaremenko
Ukraine will have to start from zero 6-7

Olexandr Kyrychenko
2009 will be one of the hardest years in the history of independent Ukraine 8

Olexandr Sharov
The crisis is not the end of the world 9-10

Iryna Shcherbyna
The budget-2009 needs a review 10

UKRAINE AND NATO

Traian Laurentiu Hristea
How to change the society’s attitude to NATO membership: experience of Romania. The interview of the Ambassador of Romania in Ukraine 11-13

Urban Rusnak
Achievments and difficulties of Slovakia on the way of Euro-Atlantic integration. Materials of the Ambassador of Slovak Republic in Ukraine meeting with the Ukrainian students 14-17

Volodymyr Furashev
Concerning the conceptual principles of functioning of the Partnership Net Ukraine – NATO in the frameworks of Joint Working Group on the Army Reform 18-20

Yaroslav Yudin
State and prospects of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration 21-22

Vitaliy Oluyko
The role of High Schools in Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration 22-24

Institute of Society Transformation
Membership Action Plan as a mechanism of Euro-Atlantic system of security forming in Ukraine.Youth debates in Sumy city 25-27

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Olexandr Lozovytskyi
Gaullism as a sample of conception of transition from dependent state to national prosperity 28-31

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

Iryna Sophishchenko
Ukraine – EU cooperation: peculiarities of modern stage and opportunities for administrative territorial bodies 32-37

Institute of Society Transformation
The reform of local self-government conducting in Ukraine and also the election law reform in accordance with the Eurointegration conditions.Round tables with the Ukrainian mayors participation, Lviv-Vinnytsya-Sumy, January-February 2009 38-46

Round tables with the Ukrainian mayors participation
Resolution of mayors and NGO leaders about the necessity of the reform of local self-government and the election law reform conducting in Ukraine 46

Round tables with the Ukrainian mayors participation
Appeal of mayors and NGO leaders of Ukraine to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Mr. Luis Maria de Puig 46

Ihor Smirnov
Logistic factor in the processes of Ukraine’s municipal sphere effectiveness increasing 47-50

RESULTS

Institute of Society Transformation
Institute of Society Transformation in 2008: fruitful activity for the sake of European choice realization in Ukraine 51-56