Veronica’s research focuses on European integration, and the challenges to democratic regime building in post-communist Europe.
In 2020, she was honoured with the inaugural ECPR Rising Star Award.
She has been awarded fellowships at Stanford University (Fulbright), the Institute for Human Sciences Vienna, the Institute for Central Europe Vienna, the University of Bordeaux and the Institute for Government in Vienna.
Her work has appeared in the Journal of European Public Policy, East European Politics and Societies, Government & Opposition, Survival and in edited volumes.
She is also the ‘Robert Elgie’ Editorial Fellow for Government & Opposition.
Her research is currently supported by a re:constitution Berlin ‘Rule of Law’ fellowship.
Veronica also worked as a foreign affairs advisor for the Romanian Presidential Administration and the Romanian Senate.
She comments on current affairs related to rule of law and party politics in Central Eastern Europe for blogs and news outlets (Encompass-Europe.com, Presidential-Power.com, The Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times, etc.) and analysis units (The Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica, etc).
Her chapter on 'Minority Governments in Romania' appears in Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective, edited by Bonnie N. Field and Shane Martin (OUP, 2022)
Veronica Anghel (2021) Failing forward in Eastern Enlargement: problem solving through problem making, Journal of European Public Policy (with Erik Jones)
Veronica Anghel (2020) Together or Apart? The European Union’s East–West Divide, Survival, 62:3, 179-202
