László Bruszt and Julia Langbein argue that EU market rules, when applied to weaker economies, can trigger damaging side effects. Unless anticipated and managed, these risks threaten not just candidate countries but the European Union itself. Lessons from the 2004 enlargement are vital as Ukraine moves closer to membership
Senior Researcher, CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest / Professor Emeritus, Central European University, Vienna
Between 2020 and 2025, Laszlo was the founding Co-Director and Director of Central European University's Democracy Institute.
He started to teach at CEU in 1992 and has served as its Acting Rector and President in 1996/97.
Between 2004 and 2016 he taught at the European University Institute in Florence.
His more recent studies deal with the politics of economic integration of the Eastern and Southern peripheries of Europe.
Laszlo serves as the Program Director of the Global Forum on Democracy and Development.
His work has been published widely, including in the Review of International Political Economy, Constitutional Political Economy, the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Global Policy, and Foreign Affairs.
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