Countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have long been regarded as laggards in the EU clean energy transition. The EU’s Green Deal, and its approach of combining a lift in climate ambition with new financial and other support instruments, has however started to change this picture. A new European Commission should now build on progress made and step up its support for the energy transition in CEE countries.
The CEE region is particularly critical to the success of the EU’s energy transition, as well as beyond that for European (cyber)-security and industrial competitiveness. This needs to be better reflected in the next phase of the European Green Deal especially as global powers like China and the US compete for influence in the region.
This report “Powering Up Central And Eastern Europe” by E3G analyses progress made in eight CEE countries (Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia) over the last five years, aims to help do this. Analysis shows that a combination of regulatory and market-based instruments, together with financial and other support schemes, has led to significant progress being made across the region.
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