EUROPEANIZATION OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES OF EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the deepening of the tendencies of Europeanization of the internal and foreign policy of the countries of Eastern Europe in the context of the European integration process. Significant differences in the approaches and concepts of Europeanization of the internal and foreign policy of the countries of Eastern Europe in the context of the European integration process are outlined. A promising research vector for the definition of Europeanization is presented. It is noted that the main task is changes, transformations, reforms that occur in the sphere of political life under the influence of European integration. It is substantiated that the activity has the character of socio-economic and political transformation, the search for a new center of economic and political gravity after the collapse of the USSR and the world socialist system, the globalization of world economic relations. The peculiarities of the policy of candidate countries for accession to the organization are studied. It is argued that, in the internal process of Europeanization in the process of European integration, the civilizational affiliation of countries is determined; in the foreign policy process, Europeanization began with the political elite's awareness of the process of harmonizing the interests of countries.