Dirty industries' competitiveness in EU's new members


Karaduman H. A., GÖNEL F.

WORLD JOURNAL OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, vol.13, no.3, pp.224-233, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

Abstract

Purpose - Despite the success in achieving the objectives for the use of renewable energy sources, the EU's competitiveness is not at the desired level. In particular, the largest decreases in fossil-type energy intensity were observed in last 13 members of EU, namely, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The purpose of this paper is to trace how these countries protect the competitiveness of their dirty (energy-intensive) industries.