Abstract
Autore:
Cordini Giovanni
Titolo:
"Ambiente e risorse energetiche nel costituzionalismo postcomunista della Russia e dei Paesi dell’Est"
The collapse of Soviet Union and of its Communist satellites
made the environmental policies a priority in their
reforming path. The new Constitutions of these revived
regimes have recognized the principles of protecting and
guaranteeing rights and duties pertaining to environment,
thus conforming to the other democratic and more advanced
countries. Russian Federation too has followed this approach
stimulated by its peculiar position as leading producer and
supplier of energy resources (oil and natural gas). Its
broad network of pipelines connected to Central Asia
oilfields and vitally feeding European economies constrained
Russian policy makers to face seriously the environmental
issues. The decision of having explicitly mentioned the
environmental rules in the Minsk and Alma Ata agreements
which founded the Community of Independent States (CIS) is
meaningful in this connection. These agreements set forth an
important commitment consisting in a common policy aimed at
facing the environmental needs in order to avoid accident
such Chernobyl forever. If these proposals proved to be
fragile and poorly implemented among CIS countries, more
credible and concrete turned out the environmental policies
of the former communist countries of Western Europe,
especially after their admission in the European Union.
Although these countries had to manoeuvre between two
conflicting options (environmental safeguard and economic
transition) to be members of EU influenced virtuously their
approving and enforcing the environmental laws.
