Integration processes

Translated from the Latin “integration” means the merger, the connection of the individual parts to the whole and total, unified. A General definition of the term can be formulated as a Union, the convergence or fusion of parts, forming a common, coherent whole, while preserving their identity. Of the Country can bond, forming a variety of alliances, for example, trade, economic, political, cultural and so on, thus preserving their national identity. The main purpose of the integration was the expansion of the volume of goods and services, which are based on efficient operation of, for example, integration processes in trade.

Integration also includes in its definition of the processes and phenomena in different spheres of life of society and the state: political, cultural, economic and others. Integration processes in the modern world are examples of movement of a particular system in which communication participants becomes stronger and their independence is reduced, there are new forms of interaction. Both earlier and now, in the era of modern technologies, integration processes are accompanied by significant progress in science, economy, culture and even politics.

The Development of such processes in the modern world on micro and macro levels - a key sign of integration. At the micro level, integration occurs through the interaction between the funds of individual companies and enterprises through the formation of economic agreements, deals and contracts between them through the establishment of branches in other countries. Integration processes can also be created in other areas besides the economic. At the macro level the integration is world-wide and regional. It is based on the development of the global market, production and communications.

In the modern world in the economic sphere there are several forms and types of integration processes. One of the simplest forms is the free trade zone. In this area various trade restrictions among the countries involved in the Union are cancelled and removed trade tariffs. The second form may be called the customs Union. In addition to the free trade zone will be the foreign trade tariff, common to all, and conducted foreign trade policy of other countries.

Third, more complex form of integration, this common market. It provides members and free mutual trade and the common foreign trade tariff, free movement of labor and, consequently, capital, as well as harmonization of economic policies. And finally, the highest form of international integration in Economics - is an economic and monetary Union, which combines all the above forms of integration. At this stage it appears political integration with its unified control.

Along with the integration processes occur and special enterprises, feature of which is their successful development at the level of regional significance.