The development of integration processes in the modern agrarian sector is an essential direction of policy of rapprochement with the European Union and a rather new aspect of the research of national historical science. Analyzing peculiarities of the European integration processes in the agrarian sector of the Bulgarian economy can serve an example for domestic agriculture in order to open new opportunities for the revival of the agrarian sector, create additional comparative advantages in the

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... gro-food market in the face of a globalizing economy. An important step for strengthening trade relations between Ukraine and the EU should be the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It will facilitate the compliance of the national agricultural sector of the economy to European standards, its adaptation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP), and the expansion of new EU member states on Ukrainian agro-food the market. In order to successfully solve the problems of European integration, the agrarian sector of Ukraine's economy has sufficient preconditions: an abundant natural resource and export potential, a healthy human capital, a gradually growing investment attractiveness, a traditional pattern of rural life and centuries-old traditions of agriculture. In this context, research and scientific understanding of the experience of creating a European agrarian model will contribute to structural reforms in the field of agriculture and increase the competitiveness of agri-food products in the European and world markets. At the same time, the awareness of opportunities, as well as the challenges of European integration processes for the Ukrainian agrarian economy, is fundamental in the situation of deepening economic crisis. Thus, the level of preparedness of the domestic agrarian sector to the European integration, as compared to the CEE countries that joined the EU in the last wave of expansion, shows that similar transformations in our country did not occur, which explains the relevance of this study.