Strategic priorities for reinforcing the competitiveness of Ukraine in the context of the European Integration

This article presents the studied problems of reinforcement of the Ukrainian competitiveness in the climate of enrichment and expansion of the European Integration processes as economic development instrument. The author carried out the structural and dynamic analysis of the national competitive relationship, which made possible to define main structural changes and trends in the national economic development for 10 years, and detected main problems of the competitiveness enhancement. The article shows identified opportunities for the national economy to find and to use competitive advantages of a higher level, in particular, of an innovative type, and to determine approaches for optimising the process of development of the national strategy for enhancing the state competitiveness on this basis. The author determines priority strategic aspects in the competitiveness reinforcement in the context of the European Integration, which conform to the national interests of the state