ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief presentation of the background to the Climate and Energy Package and it outlines the norms that are underlying the legislative package. It provides an analysis of how the four selected countries, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania have approached the Climate and Energy Package and how their positions on the package relate to an ongoing process of socialization. The renewable energy target was largely framed in economic terms and viewed as an addition to the Lisbon Strategy, which had the goal of making the EU the most competitive economy in the world by 2010. The Czech Republic sticks out as the most likely one to have a socialization of civil servants that could affect the decision-making of the country. The chapter ends with a discussion on the differences in the level of socialization between the four countries and how such differences can be linked to the time of their exposure to EU socialization pressures.
