The Concept of Regional Reforms in Ukraine Under the NUTS

Abstract

The article elaborates on the concepts of region and regionalization. The authors show ways for adopting the European system for unification of regional units (NUTS) in Ukraine. The authors systemize and classification European countries into unitary, regional and federal states; highlight the conditions for regionalization; and study the aspects of subsidiarity in the context of the on-going decentralization. The authors provide substantiation for approaches to reformation of the administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine and develop the historical-economic approach to its regionalization, according to which Ukraine is viewed as a unitary state comprising 19 krays: Donbass, Galicia-Bukovina, Sloboda Ukraine, Land of Kyiv, Central Ukraine, Black Sea Region, Pontic Steppe, Left-Bank Ukraine, Podolia, Right-Bank Ukraine, Carpathians and Zakarpattia, Pryazovia, Eastern Volhynia, Western Volhynia, Western Polissia, Budjak, Eastern Polissia, Land of Severia, Taurica.