Articles by Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă

May 21, 2025

🧭 The risks of wartime politicisation of enlargement

Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine forced the EU to revive its enlargement agenda, but growing politicisation risks sidelining the Western Balkans yet again. Miruna Butnaru Troncotă argues that the EU's future credibility and cohesion hinge on treating Western Balkan integration just as urgently as Eastern enlargement

Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă

Professor and Director of the Centre of European Studies, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest

Miruna is a writer and researcher specialising in EU foreign and security policy.

Her main field of expertise is EU foreign policy, Europeanisation, EU integration, Black Sea politics and the post-conflict reconstruction of the Western Balkans.

She has published numerous academic articles and policy papers in this field.

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Helsinki University Press, 2024

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