scholarly journals The Political Economy of EU Climate and Energy Policies in Central and Eastern Europe Revisited: Shifting Coalitions and Prospects for Clean Energy Transitions

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Ćetković ◽  
Aron Buzogány
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Regional Position ◽  
Council Of Ministers

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have commonly been regarded as climate and energy policy laggards blocking more ambitious EU decarbonization targets. Although recent literature has increasingly acknowledged the differences in national positions on energy and climate issues among these states, there has been little comprehensive evidence about their positioning on EU climate and energy policies and the domestic interests which shape government preferences. The article addresses this gap by tracing the voting behavior of six CEE countries (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania) on EU energy-related legislation in the Council of Ministers between 2007–2018. The article shows that the contestation of energy policies, particularly of climate-related legislation, in the Council of Ministers has increased over time and that these six CEE countries have indeed most often objected to the adoption of EU legislation. The CEE states do not, however, have a common regional positioning on all EU energy policies. Voting coalitions among the six CEE countries differ substantially across energy policy areas. The lack of a common regional position and changing national preferences have enabled the adoption of a relatively ambitious EU Energy and Climate Package for 2030. The differences in national voting patterns are explained by the evolving interests and the ability of key domestic political and economic actors to adapt to and explore benefits from the ever-expanding EU energy and climate policies.

scholarly journals Towards energy policy corporatism in Central and Eastern Europe?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Horváthová ◽  
Michael Dobbins ◽  
Rafael Pablo Labanino
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
New Wave ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis paper contributes to our understanding of interest intermediation structures in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and, specifically, whether, which, how and to what extent organized interests are incorporated into policy-making processes. Unlike previous studies primarily focusing on patterns of economic coordination (Jahn 2016), we focus on energy policy-making in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. We address the extent to which these energy interest intermediation systems are gravitating towards a more corporatist policy-making paradigm and whether corporatist arrangements have been dismantled in view of the new wave of national conservatism in CEE. We offer a complex operationalization of corporatism based on concrete indicators and present the results of a survey of energy interest groups operating in the region. It covers questions regarding interest intermediation between the organized interests and the government, regulatory authorities as well as the degree of policy coordination and political exchange with the state and between rivalling organizations, enabling us to derive a “corporatism score” for each national institutional setting and discuss them in the light of Jahn’s (2016) corporatism rankings for the region. We show that—despite striking differences—at least rudimentary corporatist interest intermediation structures have emerged with some variations of pluralism and statism in all four countries.

The United States on the Three Seas Initiative

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Adrian Chojan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
The U.S

In this paper, the U.S. stance under the administration of President Donald Trump with regard to the Three Seas Initiative (TSI) is analysed. It shows the importance of Central and Eastern Europe in U.S. foreign and security policy, concluding that the Americans treat the TSI as an instrument for achieving their own goals, especially those in energy policy.

scholarly journals A Review of Clean Electricity Policies—From Countries to Utilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 7946
Author(s):  
Kaiqi Sun ◽  
Huangqing Xiao ◽  
Shengyuan Liu ◽  
Shutang You ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Integration ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Reduction ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Excessive Consumption ◽  
Clean Energy Policy ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The U.S

Due to the heavy stress on environmental deterioration and the excessive consumption of fossil resources, the transition of global energy from fossil fuel energy to clean energy has significantly accelerated in recent years. The power industry and policymakers in almost all countries are focusing on clean energy development. Thanks to progressive clean energy policies, significant progress in clean energy integration and greenhouse gas reduction has been achieved around the world. However, due to the differences in economic structures, clean energy distributions, and development models, clean energy policy scope, focus, and coverage vary between different countries, states, and utilities. This paper aims at providing a policy review for readers to easily obtain clean energy policy information on various clean energies in the U.S. and some other countries. Firstly, this paper reviews and compares some countries’ clean energy policies on electricity. Then, taking the U.S. as an example, this paper introduces the clean energy policies of some representative states and utilities in the U.S in perspectives of renewable energies, electric vehicles, and energy storage.

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