Exporting the Energy Acquis: The External Agenda Shaping Power of the EU

Schulze, Kai

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“…Proedrou, 2020). However, until recently, the EU external energy policy was seeking power predominantly via the promotion of market-liberal rules and institutions beyond its borders, the most prominent example being the Energy Community Treaty (e.g., Schulze, 2015). The EU's approach to energy relations with Russia for most of the 2000s also consisted of the promotion of market-liberal rules.…”

Section: Assessing the Conditions For Geoeconomic Powermentioning

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EU Geoeconomic Power in the Clean Energy Transition

Jerzyniak,

Herranz‐Surrallés

2024

J of Common Market Studies

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The energy transition is affected by a ‘double geopoliticisation’: global competition for hydrocarbons has increased, due to the sudden turmoil in the energy markets, whilst the urgency to clean energy transition has exacerbated competition for green technological leadership. This article investigates whether the EU has adapted its goals and instruments to these intertwined geopoliticisation pressures and, if so, under what conditions has it been able to wield geoeconomic power. Using Barnett and Duvall's taxonomy of power, this article argues that geoeconomic power presupposes a shift from diffuse to direct forms of power and theorises the factors that facilitate or constrain the EU's ability to exercise this type of power. This article finds that the EU has significantly transformed the goals and instruments of its external energy policy. Yet the extent of its geoeconomic power depends on a combination of often‐overlooked domestic enabling factors and the external geopolitical environment.

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Section: Assessing the Conditions For Geoeconomic Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

EU Geoeconomic Power in the Clean Energy Transition

Jerzyniak,

Herranz‐Surrallés

2024

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The European Commission has often been called a policy entrepreneur (Copeland and James, ; Laffan, ; Maltby, ) because of its ability to exploit its role in the multilevel governance system of the EU to propose workable solutions to pressing policy problems. Over time, however, the Commission has been transformed into a policy manager (Laffan, ) and has come to undertake a more overtly political role in some settings, particularly in the realm of European external governance (Lavenex, ; Lavenex and Schimmelfennig, ) and energy issues (Goldthau and Sitter, ; Schulze, ).…”

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“…The Energy Community is a Treaty‐based organization, originally comprising the countries that were deemed to be unprepared to join the EU as member states, yet maintained accession status: namely, south‐eastern European countries and Turkey. The rationale for this initiative is to extend EU energy legislation to the signatory countries as a preparatory step to their full accession (Padgett, ; Schimmelfennig, ; Schulze, ).…”

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Networks as First Best? Network Entrepreneurship and Venue Shifting in the Establishment of the Network of Euro–Mediterranean Energy Regulators

Vantaggiato

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Regulators often play a leading role in establishing their informal networks yet regulatory networks are usually considered a second-best instrument of policy integration. They have no decision-making powers and unclear policy impact. Why then do regulators initiate networks? The article shows that regulators form networks to shift the venue of policy discussion from a formal setting, dominated by policy-makers, to an informal one, where they share agenda-setting power with their peers only. Regulators forming networks are network entrepreneurs, for whom the establishment of the network is a policy goal in itself. Bolstered by previous positive networking experiences, network entrepreneurs consider networks the best instrument for influencing policy. The article analyses the empirical case of the network of energy regulators of the Euro-Mediterranean (MedReg, established in 2006) using elite interviews with 20 stakeholders. The findings hold implications for our understanding of informal regulatory collaboration in the EU and beyond.

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“…Morata and Solorio, 2012;Schmitt and Schulze, 2011;Tosun and Solorio, 2011;Tosun et al, 2015). Most importantly, the Energy Community does not only seek to prepare candidates for membership but also aims to promote EU energy policies beyond its borders (Prange-Gstöhl, 2009;Schulze, 2015;Tosun, 2012). As the Energy Community is comprised of states that maintain different relationships with the EU, it provides a promising laboratory to learn more about the EU's potential to induce compliance with EU law in both states with and without accession aspirations or prospects.…”

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Compliance with EU biofuel targets in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe: Do interest groups matter?

Tosun

Schulze

2015

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The European Union requires its member states to establish national targets for the biofuel content of all diesel and petrol supplies for transport placed on the market. This study explores the adoption of this European Union policy across South-Eastern and Eastern Europe between 2003 and 2012. In theoretical terms, we are specifically interested in examining the role of interest groups for policy adoption. We argue that the oil industry in general and the producers of biofuels in particular will support the establishment of national biofuel targets because they expect economic gains. By contrast, we expect environmental groups with international and regional ties to oppose such targets because biofuels have come under attack for their potential environmental impact including deforestation, a loss in biodiversity, and food insecurity. Empirically, we concentrate on policy adoptions in 21 South-Eastern and Eastern European states with varied relations to the European Union and the Energy Community. Our analysis supports our main arguments in suggesting that a stronger presence of environmental groups decreases the chances of adopting national biofuel targets across our country sample while producer interests tend to increase adoptions. This finding holds true also when controlling for a country's European Union membership and accession perspective, membership in the Energy Community, and additional domestic-level factors. These results add more generally to our understanding about compliance with European Union policies and environmental governance.

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Exporting the Energy Acquis: The External Agenda Shaping Power of the EU

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

EU Geoeconomic Power in the Clean Energy Transition

EU Geoeconomic Power in the Clean Energy Transition

Networks as First Best? Network Entrepreneurship and Venue Shifting in the Establishment of the Network of Euro–Mediterranean Energy Regulators

Compliance with EU biofuel targets in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe: Do interest groups matter?

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