ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ И СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ЭТАПА РАЗВИТИЯ ЕС КАК ИСТОЧНИК ДЕЗИНТЕГРАЦИОННЫХ ПРОЦЕССОВ

Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyse the political and social problems of the modern stage of the European Union development as a source of disintegration processes. In the course of the research the content of the interpretation of ‘disintegration process’ is revealed, the characteristic of the forms of disintegration processes in the European Union is given, their manifestations, tendencies and regularities are revealed. The main political and social problems that increase the degree of entropy of integration of the association and significantly enhance the development of disintegration processes in the European Union are outlined. According to the results of the analysis of political and social problems of the modern stage of development of the European Union as a source of disintegration processes, it is revealed the strengthening of conflict confrontation between the supranational level of power of the integration structure and the national levels of power of the member states in the conditions of transition to a new ‘era of uncertainty’, characterised by different-speed integration of the member states of the association and the growth of inter-institutional tension, the unwillingness of the EU member states to follow the principles of the European Union. Disintegration processes, the source of which are the political and social problems of the European Union member states, are characterised by high dynamics of manifestations and by their nature they belong to complex one-stage or multi-stage phenomena, which are represented by the regressive transformation of the integration structure of the association within one form of integration. Disintegration processes, the source of which are political and social problems of the European Union member states, are characterised by a specific manifestation (a quantitative or qualitative characteristic of disruption of the integral structure of integration), a trend (a disintegration manifestation stable over time, of a certain direction) and a pattern of disintegration development (a set of manifestations and trends of disintegration of a new quality, allowing to predict the state of the integration structure in the future).