Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne a własność państwowa
Energy security and state property

Summary/Abstract: The issue of state property has been taken up in literature since the times of Adam Smith. There is a shortage of articles combining state property and energy security issues. The issues of energy security and state property are extremely important topics, since state enterprises constitute a significant part of the economies of the Visegrad Group countries (V4), and energy security is one of the most important contemporary problems and a challenge for all Central and Eastern European countries. The aim of the article is to present the ownership structure of V4 energy companies and to indicate the connection of energy security issues with state-owned property. The critical analysis of literature and comparative analysis were used to achieve the goal adopted in the article. At the beginning, the author presented the concept of energy security and the most important threats and challenges for energy security. Then, the author explained why the state can effectively prevent and counteract challenges, threats and pointed out the actions of the state, which are aimed at ensuring the stable functioning of the energy system. At the end, the results of conducted research on the ownership structure of energy companies in the Visegrad Group countries were presented. The obtained results showed that state ownership dominates in energy companies V4.

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