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Sustainability in the European Union: Analyzing the Discourse of the European Green Deal

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Eckert, Eva, Kovalevska, Oleksandra·2021·Journal of Risk and Financial Management
DOI 10.3390/jrfm14020080
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In the European Union, the concern for sustainability has been legitimized by its politically and ecologically motivated discourse disseminated through recent policies of the European Commission and the local as well as international media. In the article, we question the very meaning of sustainability and examine the European Green Deal, the major political document issued by the EC in 2019. The main question pursued in the study is whether expectations verbalized in the Green Deal’s plans, programs, strategies, and developments hold up to the scrutiny of critical discourse analysis. We compare the Green Deal’s treatment of sustainability to how sustainability is presented in environmental and social science scholarship and point out that research, on the one hand, and the politically motivated discourse, on the other, do not correlate and often actually contradict each other. We conclude that sustainability discourse and its keywords, lexicon, and phraseology have become a channel through which political institutions in the EU such as the European Commission sideline crucial environmental issues and endorse their own presence. The Green Deal discourse shapes political and institutional power of the Commission and the EU.

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Authors
Eckert, E., & Kovalevska, O.
Affiliations
  • Charles University (CZ)
  • Metropolitan University Prague (CZ)
Corresponding author
  • Eckert, Eva
  • Kovalevska, Oleksandra
ORCID
Kovalevska, Oleksandra
Venue
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-02-17
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
80
ISSN
  • 1911-8066 (ISSN-L)
  • 1911-8074
DOI
10.3390/jrfm14020080
OpenAlex
W3132688225
Cited by
199
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 33 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 8
FWCI
88.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Journal of risk and financial management (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Econstor (Econstor) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Metropolitan University Prague
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Cultural and political discourse analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Policies
Keywords
sustainability discourse, European Green Deal, European Commission, political discourse, critical discourse analysis, environmental policy, institutional power, greenwashing, EU environmental policy

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