Articles by Beáta Bakó

June 10, 2025

🧭 Enlargement and the rise of endless conditionality

Beáta Bakó
Membership of the EU no longer guarantees access to its core benefits. With funding now tied to rule-of-law compliance, aspiring member states are subject to increasing scrutiny. Beáta Bakó examines how this shift reshapes accession prospects – and why candidate countries may find themselves caught in a new cycle of disillusionment
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Beáta Bakó
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague

Beáta earned her PhD in law at the University of Münster in 2020.

She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2020/2021 and a Re:constitution Fellow in 2021/2022.

Between 2013 and 2021, she worked as a journalist for various Hungarian media outlets.

Her recent academic publications focus mostly on the EU’s rule of law crisis and financial conditionality.

Challenges to EU Values in Hungary: How the European Union Misunderstood the Government of Viktor Orbán

Challenges to EU Values in Hungary: How the European Union Misunderstood the Government of Viktor Orbán
Routledge, 2023

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