The research was conducted at the Department of Foreign Journalism and Literature of the Institute of Journalism of the Belarusian State University under the supervision of Associate Professor Boris Leonidovich Zalesski. The work examines the history of the formation of the European Union and the development of partnership relations. Today, the European Union is the largest trade partner of the Republic of Belarus. European countries hold a leading position in terms of the scale of imports of Belarusian products. The advantages of cooperation with such a deeply integrated association are especially evident in the context of the challenges facing the Republic of Belarus in further strengthening of national sovereignty, state-building, modernization and reform of the Belarusian society and economy, integration of our country into the system of international relations as its equal participant.