| Title |
Europos Sąjungos bendros energetikos politikos formavimasis ir Lietuvos interesai / |
| Translation of Title |
Common European Union energy policy on the making and the interests of Lithuania. |
| Authors |
Vaičiūnas, Žygimantas |
| DOI |
10.15388/Polit.2009.3.8403 |
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| Is Part of |
Politologija.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2009, nr. 3, p. 89-120.. ISSN 1392-1681 |
| Abstract [eng] |
The analysis of the main EU energy policy strategy documents indicates that EU energy policy is developing in favourable direction to Lithuania’s interests. Moreover, recent EU energy policy strategy documents are more practically applicable while ensuring energy security of Lithuania comparing with the previous documents that mostly were orientated towards identification of energy security problems without offering solutions how to overcome it. Energy security problems of Baltic states, identified in 2006 at the European Commission energy Green Paper in 2009 were transformed to the particular plans how these problems could be solved. One of the recent EU energy policy document – Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan – is unprecedented activity by its regional form and its particularly clear and binding content. These developments for the first time of the EU energy policy history demonstrates that EU already drew the trajectory of its energy policy and currently is moving towards the implementation stage of the main energy policy options. Four main achievements can be identified showing that EU energy policy develops accordingly to the main Lithuania energy policy interests: 1) deepening and widening consideration for the external dimension of the EU energy policy; 2) comprehensive attitude towards the phenomenon of energy isolation of the Baltic states; 3) the integration of the EU energy policy towards other areas of EU integration; 4) increasing significance for the principle of security of supply. Concluding statement of the article is that the priorities of the EU and Lithuania energy policy are converging. This fact can be qualified as the success of Lithuanian European policy indicating that Lithuania managed to transform its national energy policy interests towards priorities of the EU energy policy. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2009 |
| CC license |
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