The EU’s Arctic Policy:Between Vision and Reality

• Main Authors: Stępień, Adam, Raspotnik, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/17/3; Political science; Arctic; Pillar; Climate change
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/1054dd94-d47a-40bf-80ec-ae10714310d7; https://www.coleurope.eu/system/tdf/research-paper/stepien_raspotnik_cepob_5-19_0.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=51550&force=; https://www.coleurope.eu/research-paper/eus-arctic-policy-between-vision-and-reality

> The EU’s Arctic policy statements have so far been primarily aggregations of existing actions, wrapped in high-level rhetoric. > EU policy-makers have not yet developed a convincing Arctic narrative to broadly engage the EUropean public in Arctic matters. > Although no dramatic changes took place in the Arctic in the last years, security questions and high politics have become more visible. > The current main themes of the EU’s Arctic policy – climate, sustainable development and international cooperation – should be kept. Climate change should not be the only pillar of the EU’s Arctic engagement. Policymakers need to propose concrete future-oriented actions for issues such as marine litter. At the same time, the EU should not openly raise security questions. > To operationalize its policies, the EU should reconsider the current institutional set-up of its Arctic policy, including ways to involve the European Parliament and making inte