Based on significant experience of cooperation with NATO and with individual EU member-states (Germany, France, Poland, the UK and other), as well as possessing quite sizeable security potential, Ukraine has rather optimistic prospects for further development of cooperation with the EU in the area of security. However, in order to utilize this potential in common interests of Ukraine and the EU, Ukrainian experts have to address the number of institutional, legal and resourse related concerns.

In particular, Ukraine needs to do a lot of work for implementing the value standards of the EU, achieving the balance of security interests between the cooperation with the EU and cooperation with Russia, improving the effectiveness of governing in the area of security and defence, increasing the volume of resources allocated for the needs of security structures, and expediting the reforms of these structure, especially law-enforcement ones.

In this policy paper experts of the non-governmental think tank CACDS suggest their vision of the state and prospects of the integration of Ukraine to the EU in the area of security, as well as offer their recommendations for improving the effectiveness of utilizing the potentials for integration of Ukraine to the EU in this area. In the CACDS experts’ opinion, the adoption of suggested recommendations will promote successful implementation of the general course of Ukraine on European integration, widening of security dialog between Ukraine and the EU and deepening of cooperation in defence, defence industrial and law-enforcement sectors.