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In the article, the theoretical basics and practical aspects for the Ukrainian-Polish transborder region development at the current stage of the European integration have been studied. The accent has been made on the actualization of the problem after signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The increase of the role of the Ukrainian-Polish transborder region in the general system of the European transborder cooperation due to its geo-economical characteristics, considerable innovational development potential, and the quality of human capital assets has been grounded. It has been proved that activation of the economic cooperation in the Ukrainian-Polish transborder region is taking place not only under the influence of the EU integration factors, but also is stimulated by the domestic processes in the both states. Taking into consideration the above mentioned, the conclusion has been made that the acceleration of the economic development of the transborder region under this study will help to increase the effectiveness of functioning of both the Ukrainian and Polish economies in general. Considerable attention has been paid to the analysis of the institutional aspects of development of the Ukrainian-Polish transborder region, in particular, to the specification of the aspects of the Lisbon Agreement’spotential influence on its economy, the 2010-2020 State strategy of the regional development of Poland, and the State strategy of the regional development of Ukraine till 2020. On the basis of the conducted study, the key-goals of the Ukrainian-Polish transborder region development for the mid-range perspective have been set, namely, increasing of its competitiveness, convergence of the transborder zone on the basis of the integration processes activation, creating favorable institutional environment for the realization of the common events and projects of transborder character. To successfully meet the above mentioned goals, both the Ukrainian and Polish local authorities are proposed to pay their foremost attention to such priorities as levelling the social and economic development indexes of the eastern Polish provinces and western Ukrainian regions on the basis of coordination of their strategies and their own sector development programs; favorable investment climate forming, based on the use of the advantages of the international labor division within the whole transborder region; realization of the common investment projects in the key-spheres of the region’s economy, namely, in the agriculture, tourism and recreation, and education spheres, as well as the IT-technologies etc.

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cross-border region, European integration, EU Association Agreement, EU, Poland, Ukraine, economic cooperation