Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Energy Poverty and its Drivers in Post-Communist Europe: The Visible, the Measurable and the Hidden Part 1: Energy Poverty and Politics 2. Trapped in Politics: Energy Poverty in Hungary 3. Inconsistencies in Policy-Making as Drivers of Energy Poverty in Bulgaria 4. Slovenia: The Role of NGOs in the Emergence of Energy Poverty as a Policy Issue Part 2: Energy Poverty, Energy, and Poverty 5. Energy Poverty in a Subsistence-Like Economy: The Case of North Macedonia 6. Energy Poverty as Heating Poverty in Lithuania 7. Energy Poverty Between Energy Paradigms in Poland 8. On How to Fix a Sturdy Energy Poverty System in Romania Part 3: Regional Variations of Energy Poverty 9. Hidden Energy Poverty: The Case of the Czech Republic 10. Divided We (Still) Stand? Energy Poverty in East and West Germany 11. Regional Disparities as Roots of Energy Poverty in Slovakia 12. Conclusions: Energy Poverty as a Threat to Democracy in Post-Communist Countries

About the Author

George Jiglau is Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Anca Sinea is an Energy Policy Researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Ute Dubois is an Associate Professor of Economics at ISG International Business School, Paris, France.

Philipp Biermann is an Economics and Social Science Researcher at University of Magdeburg, Germany.

Reviews

"This powerful and important book confirms the depth of energy poverty in post-communist Europe, with ten, detailed, country chapters. It provides an accolade to the European COST programme - and the ENGAGER project in particular – as it shows the real benefits that come from sharing knowledge and then learning from it. This, the first comprehensive review of energy poverty in post-communist Europe, will help to ensure that future policy is based on a clearer understanding - if the policy-makers want to listen. And, where politicians continue to evade the issues, we, the academics, activists and the concerned, will have a stronger basis for holding them to account. It is strongly recommended." -- Brenda Boardman, Emeritus Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UKThis work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS/CCCDI-UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P3.6-H2020-2020-0063.