UKRAINIAN-FRENCH DISCOURSE: PECULIARITIES OF POLITICAL REALITY INTERPRETATIONS

The article is an analysis of how bilateral relations between Ukraine and France are developing, to what extention the features of the French and Ukrainian political mentality affect the nature of these relations. The work is based on the methodology of comparative historical, systemic and structural-functional analysis, phenomenological and psychological methods, the mode of symbolic interactionism; civilizational, anthropological, sociological approach, and hermeneutic tools are also used. The article focuses on the key issues of the Ukrainian-French discourse: the extension, depth and pace of Ukraine ’ s integration into the European Union; the nature of relations between Ukraine and North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the possibilities of returning Ukraine to the status of a nuclear power, the problem of disproportions between the high level of Ukraine and France political and diplomatic consultations and the low level of French investment and innovation activity in the Ukrainian business environment. foreign