Common Europe. Ukraine and Poland. New Socio-economic Challenges
The publication you are now holding is a monograph comprising the articles prepared for the third Polish-Ukrainian scientific conference which took place in Krakow between 10th and 13th May 2011. Polish-Ukrainian conferences are organised under the scientific collaboration between the Wrocław School of Banking and the Economic Institute of the National Mining University in Dnipropetrovsk.
The main theme of the Krakow conference was the new challenges Poland and Ukraine are facing under the constantly changing external (caused by globalisation and European integration processes) and internal conditions. The main concern at the moment is to undertake such actions that would enable attaining the European standards of living and further social and economic growth of both countries. Hence the keynote of the scientific event was a hypothesis that only by way of collaboration may economy be safeguarded against negative effects of the global financial crisis.
The conference participants discussed numerous problems both countries struggle with including various aspects of their social and economic development under the current international conditions, the economic and organisational mechanism of entrepreneurship, importance of innovation from the perspective of economic growth, influence of the European integration on financial and fiscal systems as well as monetary policy and many others. Poland may share its experiences related to the aforementioned problems as it has been the European Union member state since 2004. Ukraine, on the other hand, while striving to join the European structures in the future, may largely benefit from all those experiences.