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Shaping the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: The Role of Eastern European Countries

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Energy Policy Making in the EU

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This chapter traces the role of eastern European countries during the negotiations of the third gas directive and their role in bringing on the decision agenda the so-called “Gazprom clause”. It is argued that the enlargement did not significantly change the interest heterogeneity on the liberalisation issues and that the main explanatory power for successful decision agenda thus lies in the framing strategies that were utilised before the negotiations. Followed by a number of events, such as building of the Nord Stream pipeline and Ukrainian gas crisis of 2006, many member states used the momentum to reframe the debate as a foreign policy issue rather than as a competition policy issue. This served as a basis for the securitisation of the European energy policies and successful mobilisation of other participants in the policy process, which resulted in the inclusion of the “Gazprom clause” in the final version of the third gas directive.

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Brutschin, E. (2015). Shaping the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: The Role of Eastern European Countries. In: Tosun, J., Biesenbender, S., Schulze, K. (eds) Energy Policy Making in the EU. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 28. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6645-0_10

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