Europeanisation of national policy dialogues on energy pathways

This deliverable, D4.2, analyses the development of such a European energy policy, the different Europeanisation processes influencing this development, and to what extent this EU vision is transcribed into the national policy dialogues. The Europeanisation topic has been widely studied over the past two decades. While some authors describe Europeanisation as the emergence of exclusively European governance structures, the majority agree that Europeanisation describes a transfer process between the European institutions and the member States (MS). Integration of energy strategies, policy and legal systems (implementation of laws) plus the resulting effects on the energy system constitutes the concept of Europeanisation that supports this analysis. Thus, Europeanisation may be conceived as a dynamic process of policy transfer under the influence of several actors: European Commission, European Parliament, European Council, the MS and the lobbyists.