SOCIAL FRACTURES IN EU THROUGH PANDEMIC -ENERGY-WAR TRIANGLE

Öz

Although its negative effects are observed all over the world, it can be seen that the EU has been dragged into a much deeper social anxiety and fear climate since the pandemic period. During the pandemic process, risk faced by the (ageing) population potential, harsh sanctions that restrict freedoms, increasing unrest and street demonstrations against these sanctions and the economic contraction have already caused serious social concerns. In addition, in all these difficult processes, while the member countries (as always) primarily took care of their own national interests, their approaches that put the joint decision-making mechanisms into trouble also blocked the way of taking effective holistic measures.The complacency in the energy field due to the decrease in demand resulted in the radical green transformation rhetoric of EU countries and the directing of many common social funds to this field. The energy crisis that followed, on the other hand, left the EU countries alone with black spots on the hasty pink transformation tables they had constructed.