From Green Deal to grim deal - energy discourse between corporate spin and nationalism

Description

The EU Green Deal poses severe challenges for the energy sector in CEE, which still strongly relies on coal. Moreover, some CEE governments, mostly right-wing and populist ones, raise anti-EU sentiments claiming that the EU environmental regulations are a threat to their countries’ energy safety and independence and thus to their sovereignty. As a consequence, the discourse of energy and energy transition in these countries is located at the intersection of economics and politics and addresses environmental issues rather as a by-product.
This paper examines the layering of such discourses in the case of the Turów-lignite mine, located in the Czech-Polish-German borderlands and operated by the Polish energy company PGE.

Period	15 Jun 2022 → 17 Jun 2022
Event title	ESTIDIA
Event type	Unknown
Degree of Recognition	International