Research On The Orientation Of Energy Policy In Central And Eastern European Countries Under The Background Of European Integration

In recent years,through the increasingly comprehensive energy outline documents and initiatives,a unified energy market and regulatory system has gradually formed within the EU.The fragmentation of the energy sector has gradually been replaced by collective energy policies,and the coordination of foreign policy of member states has been strengthened.Central and Eastern European countries,as active participants in the course of joining the EU,established the path of “return to Europe” after the Cold War and actively integrated into Europe at the political,economic and cultural levels.The EU’s process of absorbing Central and Eastern European countries into a unified internal energy market has accelerated in recent years.Central and Eastern European countries have initially formed a competitive and liberal-oriented energy market under the guidance of the EU.However,the EU’s energy consumption lacks a stable external supply,and a large amount of imported energy comes from Russia.The high dependence on Russian energy is evident in Central and Eastern European countries,especially in the natural gas and oil sectors.Therefore,the energy dependence structure formed in the long-term interaction with Russia makes it impossible for Central and Eastern European countries to avoid Russia’s energy elements.Central and Eastern European countries,as buffer zones for the East and West,face the game choice of complying with EU initiatives,developing diversified energy imports and maintaining close energy links with Russia.The interests of national interests are not the same and energy itself is complex and time-sensitive,so Central and Eastern European countries cannot form a consistent and convergent energy policy within the framework of the EU.There will also be differences and differentiation in the orientation of energy policies.Therefore,this paper will use energy embeddedness and energy context awareness as the basis of analysis to construct a framework model for energy policy orientation in Central and Eastern Europe.Energy embeddedness is the basic structural element,which lays the interactive foundation between the Central and Eastern European countries and the two main actors.As a floating change factor,energy context awareness is often influenced by politics,energy costs and benefits as well as identity interaction.The combination of the two elements determines the external energy policy orientation of Central and Eastern Europe.The formation of this orientation will be affected by the driving force of European integration and the structural power of Russian energy.For different levels of energy embeddedness and energy context awareness in the EU and Russia,this paper reshapes the energy policy orientation model of Central and Eastern European countries,and classifies the energy policy orientations of Central and Eastern European countries into four models,the escaping Russia based on the EU,integrating with the EU without success on both sides,the positive dependence on Russia,and the pragmatic balance between the East and West.The differentiation of energy policy orientations in Central and Eastern Europe has brought more realistic considerations for the development of foreign energy relations between the EU and Russia,as well as the interactive development of energy between Russia and Europe.