Pirmininkavimas ES Tarybai - bendrų ES problemų sprendimas nacionalinių prioritetų įgyvendinimo kontekste
LTPirmininkavimo Europos Sąjungai (ES) Tarybai laikotarpiu labai aktuali prioritetų parinkimo problema, nes ES sudaro nevienodo ekonominio lygio šalys, susiduriančios su skirtingo pobūdžio problemomis ir siekiančios jas išspręsti, o pirmininkavimo ES Tarybai metais gali atsirasti galimybė tai padaryti. Todėl tinkamų prioritetų parinkimo pirmininkavimo ES Tarybai laikotarpiu problema įgyja vis didesnę ne tik praktinę, bet ir mokslinę reikšmę. Pažymėtina, kad prioritetų parinkimo pirmininkavimo ES Tarybai laikotarpiu problema mažai nagrinėta ne tik Lietuvoje, bet ir pasaulyje, todėl jos tyrimo būtinumas sietinas su efektyvesniu pirmininkavimo ES Tarybai darbu. Tyrimo aktualumą rodo ir tai, jog iki 2014 m. sausio 1 d. ES Tarybai pirmininkaus Lietuva ir jos pozicija turės įtakos ne tik ES, bet ir Lietuvos tolesnėms ekonomikos tendencijoms, todėl skirtingų šalių patirčių analizė gali būti naudinga Lietuvai, siekiant priimti efektyviausius sprendimus.
ENThe presidency of the European Union is poorly studied topic in Lithuania, therefore the identification of the presidency of the European Union value is very important. Evaluation is extremely important in order to achieve effective Lithuanian presidency of the European Union and quality of the presidency country of the European Council's agenda-setting. Following the imposition of the EU presidency, based on a rotating basis every six months, the aim of mutual equality of Member States, closer cooperation, ensuring a European problem identification and resolution. However, various authors such as Howorth (2011), Tallberg (2008), Hage (2008) and Arvidsson (2004), Abdelhamid (2011), Lipp (2008) and Lithuanian authors such as Paulikas (2004) Karaliūtė (2012), said that every EU presidency aims to add to the agenda their national problems and solved them as important for the entire European Union. Even for a knowledgeable person in economic policy is not easy to say what tactics, what solutions should follow the presidency country, assessing that the European Union is above the national political system, covering 28 European countries and has many unresolved issues. Research object: countries priorities of the presidency to the EU Council. Research aim: analyze different countries priorities of the EU Council presidency. Article objectives: 1. Examine the major common opportunities and functions for presidency countries. 2. Analyze Presidencies experience. 3. Explore the Lithuanian presidency to the EU countries priorities. Research methodology: article examines Lithuanian and foreign scientific works, empirical studies and economic literature. It has been used scientific literature analysis, information aggregation, smoothing, detail and generalization of the multivariate analysis.The research revealed that presidency of the European Union remark a common European Union policy and national opportunities implementation. The principle of rotation of each European Union member state presidency every six months among member countries emphasizes equality between member states and it provides an opportunity for each country to improve the international image, contribute to the country's wealth development and stimulate economic growth. Successful countries presidency of the European Union enables properly fulfill assigned tasks and functions, which include leadership, mediation and representation. In this way, countries are faced with the problems such as more burdened State administrative apparatus, which requires an extremely high quality preparation, skilled workers, additional state costs. Therefore, countries could not always afford to achieve most effective results, especially talking about smaller countries. Meanwhile, large countries with a higher economic level are able to spend more and that is why during the presidency of the European Union they set ambitious goals, which successful implementation allows to demonstrate its role as the presidency country and power not only in the European Union but also to all world economic policy. When the country took over the presidency to the EU, it sets the plans and tries to prove their contribution to the importance of dealing with EU affairs. Therefore, during presidency period countries can earn a reliable and constructive partner status by combining different national interests. Presidency of the EU is one of the options which could help to include the most important issue of their country into the list of the most pressing problems of the EU. This is especially typical of the larger EU countries with a higher economic level, able to set more ambitious goals. This can be seen in Portugal, Sweden and the Danish Presidencies.Portugal, in order to emphasize its importance as a state with the participation of EU-making process of reaching the Lisbon Treaty would be signed in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon and named as its capital city. Sweden, which have long been important environmental problems in the Baltic Sea during its presidency reached to adopt the Strategy for the Baltic Sea region. Denmark was interested in addressing the environmental issues related to renewable energy sources, namely his presidency reached to review the energy efficiency directive and started to think about the renewable energy strategy up to 2050 preparation, which will be implemented in the smart energy transmission networks across the all EU. Lithuania 2013 July 1 officially took over the EU presidency country from Ireland and became the first Baltic country in receipt of such a right, set the economic, social and energy issues. During the first three months of the Lithuanian presidency (July-September) there was adopted a number of important decisions. The rest Lithuanian presidency three months (October-December) is the next crucial phase of the presidency, demanding to continue to address the most pressing issues to be concerned with the implementation of the priorities of Lithuania. However issues related to energetic, can be seen as national priorities as energy independence for Lithuania lately is particularly important.
