Cooperation and Security: Examining the Political Discourse on Natural Gas Transit in Ukraine and Slovakia

摘要: The COVID-19 pandemic appeared in the midst of developing European Green Deal, most ambitious project to decarbonise EU’s economy date. Among other issues, highlighted challenges connected long-term role natural gas as a fossil fuel economy. Moreover, changes architecture caused by development new import infrastructure (especially Nord Stream and its extension, which is currently under construction) put additional pressure on transit countries, mainly are linked Brotherhood pipeline. These have been strong supporters utilisation harsh critics pipelines that circumvent their territories, they consider energy be an important part sectors. This research examines political discourse Slovakia Ukraine order identify main arguments these positions. paper total 233 textual units from both countries for period 2014–2018. It concludes that, while sees predominantly through lens cooperation with EU actors, Slovak considers terms security availability national