Tryma K. Globalization as a Factor of Transformation for the Ukrainian Civil Society

The thesis is concerned with the analysis of socio-political processes in Greece at the modern stage in the framework of European integration. The categories and the concepts for studying the process of Europeanization of Greece as well as the scientific achievements of the Ukrainian and foreign researchers, primarily Greek ones, are analyzed.The thesis presents the study of the influence of the EU on the processes that are going on in the social sphere of Greece in the context of implementation of the Euro-integration course, namely the country's demographic condition as well as its education system, social care and employment rate. The author presents the main internal and external risks the Greek community is being faced by at the present stage and provides a number of recommendations on elimination thereof.The thesis determines the role of the European Union in the process of decentralization of the country's government and considers the legal basis of the central and the local governments' work in Greece. The author also considers the evolution of the party system in Greece during the period of European integration and the attitudes of the country's major political forces to that process.