Towards a general "Europeanization" of EU Member States� energy policies?

Strunz, Sebastian; Gawel, Erik; Lehmann, Paul

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“…Boscheck et al [46] ask at which level the energy policy is realized: regional, national, or European? Strunz, Gawel, and Lechmann [47] underline that the energy policy in the EU, on the whole, is diverse; some aspects are decentralized (e.g., nuclear policy), whilst some very Europeanized. Various researchers treat the energy policy Europeanization as the internal process within the EU [21,22], whilst some researchers try to focus on its external dimensions regarding non-EU member states.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Europeanization Processes Of the Eu Energy Policymentioning

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“…This article is one of the first empirical attempts to show the Europeanization processes of the EU energy policy, as research have seldom undertaken this topic and there has been only few publications so far [21][22][23][24]. Without any doubts, the EU energy policy is one of the best examples of the Europeanization processes [46,47], despite the fact it is still underexplored. It is challenging to assess the effects of the Europeanization of energy policy in the European Union unequivocally.…”

Section: Europeanization Of the Energy Policy In Visegrad Countries And Its Effectivenessmentioning

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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Energy issues are sensitive for the four Visegrad countries as European Union (EU) member states; thus, this area’s convergence might be problematic for these countries. There is a clear research gap concerning the processes of Europeanization of the energy policy in the Visegrad countries. This article aims to identify and evaluate the progress of four Visegrad countries (V4) in implementing the EU energy goals in the context of the Europeanization. The article uses three main methods: Hellwig’s method, Kendall’s rank concordance coefficient, and k-means clustering. These calculations will allow one to study the Europeanization processes, which means checking the gamma convergence. For calculations, we use the available statistical data from Eurostat for the years 2005–2018. Poland and other Central European countries, including Czechia, and Hungary, largely depend on coal for their energy needs. The empirical results have shown that there have been no significant changes in the classification of EU countries in terms of their fulfillment of the EU climate and energy targets in the analyzed period. This is the case in all EU member states, including the Visegrad Group countries, but except for Poland. This means that the level of Europeanization of the energy policy and its effectiveness is similar in all member states except for Poland, which is becoming a kind of the exception. Throughout the investigating period, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia were close to meeting the set targets and could be rated high compared to the EU countries. Poland, especially since 2015, has been noticeably and increasingly distanced from the other V4 countries. It can be perceived as a gradual drift away from Europeanization of the EU climate and energy policy in Poland.

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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“…3 Specifically, RES are often used as a vehicle for regional development and job creation and/or as a way to reduce regional and local environmental impacts, outcomes that could not be guaranteed in case of an integrated EU approach. Thus, bottom-up processes may better conform to both politico-economic restrictions and normative trade-offs than coercive top-down harmonisation (Strunz et al 2014, 2015).…”

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Policy convergence as a multifaceted concept: the case of renewable energy policies in the European Union

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The literature on policy convergence has identified numerous facets and causal drivers of convergence. Distinguishing four dimensions of convergence (object, benchmark, drivers and directed process) helps clarify why and in what form policy convergence may occur (or not). Thus, depending on, for example, the object of analysis (policy outcome or instruments used), the same empirical case may give rise to opposing assessments. Furthermore, both economic and political drivers are necessary to account for successful policy convergence: economic convergence partly explains why countries may face similar problems, and political mechanisms explain why they might choose similar policies to solve a given problem. This article illustrates the multifaceted character of convergence for the dynamic field of renewable energy policies in the European Union. The empirical results indicate temporary convergence in the case of policy support instrument choices and conditional convergence in terms of renewable shares. However, the results suggest divergence of public R&D subsidies targeting renewables.

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“…IT, biotechnology). However, others have emphasized that politico-economic considerations speak against further centralization and top-down policies (Strunz, Gawel, and Lehmann 2015), often stressing the fact that renewable energy policies in the EU Member States are heterogeneous, and with substantial development in some countries and far more modest progress in others. For these reasons, bottom-up processes of convergence, i.e.…”

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Government support to renewable energy R&D: drivers and strategic interactions among EU Member States

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Economics of Innovation and New Technology

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Although the climate challenge requires proactive policies that spur innovation in the renewable energy sector, various countries commit vastly different levels of support for renewable energy R&D. This paper addresses the question why this may be the case. Specifically, the objective is to analyse the determinants of government support to renewable energy R&D in the European Union (EU), and, in doing this, we devote particular attention to the question of whether the level of this support tends to converge or diverge across EU Member States. The investigation relies on a data set of 12 EU Member States and a bias-corrected dynamic panel data estimator. We test for the presence of conditional β-convergence, and the impacts of energy dependence and electricity regulation on government R&D efforts. The findings display divergence in terms of government support to renewable energy R&D, and this result is robust across various model specifications and key assumptions. The analysis also indicates that countries with a low energy-import dependence and deregulated electricity markets tend to experience lower growth rates in government renewable energy R&D. The paper ends by discussing some implications of the results, primarily from an EU perspective.

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Towards a general "Europeanization" of EU Member States� energy policies?

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

Policy convergence as a multifaceted concept: the case of renewable energy policies in the European Union

Government support to renewable energy R&D: drivers and strategic interactions among EU Member States

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