The ‘European Green Deal’ – a paradigm shift? Transformations in the European Union’s sustainability meta-discourse

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Table 1. Critical discourse analysis – sources.

Period	EU strategy	European Commission	European Council	Key policy-makers’ speeches and texts
2000–2009	Lisbon Strategy	Communication, 15 May 2001 (European Commission 2001) Communication, 2 February 2005 (European Commission 2005)	Conclusions, 23–24 March 2000 (Lisbon), 23–24 March 2001 (Stockholm) and 15–16 June 2001 (Göteborg) (European Council 2000, 2001a, 2001b)	Commission President Barroso, European Parliament, 2 February 2005 (Barroso 2005)
2010–2019	Europe 2020	Communication, 3 March 2010 (European Commission 2010)	Conclusions, 26 March 2010 (European Council 2010)	Preface of Commission President Barroso to the Europe 2020 Strategy (Barroso 2010)
2019-present	European Green Deal	Communication, 11 December 2019 (European Commission 2019)	Conclusions, 12 December 2019 (European Council 2019)	Commission President von der Leyen, European Parliament, 11, 18 December 2019 (Von der Leyen 2019a, 2019b)

Source: author’s compilation.

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