Articles by Veronica Anghel

December 20, 2024

🧭 Why EU enlargement is a strategic necessity

Veronica Anghel

Launching her series on EU enlargement dilemmas, Veronica Anghel argues that enlargement is no gamble, but a strategic necessity. In crisis, enlargement transforms external risks into shared responsibilities, reinforcing governance, security, and global influence — and ensuring the Union’s survival and relevance

May 7, 2024

The key question for the EU is not whether to enlarge, but how best to do so

Veronica Anghel

Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones redefine the EU as a (selective membership) system of common resource pools, arguing this is the only way to understand its transformation under the pressure to enlarge. Enlargement means less exclusivity, so the key is to understand how the ‘goods’ that it provides are affected

March 10, 2023

Pandemic Europe three years on: insights from political science

Veronica Anghel

It is three years since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, on 11 March 2020. Veronica Anghel conducts a retrospective analysis of the impact of the health crisis, from all social scientific perspectives. Did political science rise to the challenge?

July 21, 2022

Is EU enlargement to Ukraine and Moldova credible?

Veronica Anghel

The credibility of EU membership for Ukraine and Moldova depends on how flexible member states are with the criteria for entry and the notion of full membership. Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones, drawing on analysis of previous enlargements, show that the flexibility can be considerable

August 19, 2021

Progressive mayors in Central Eastern Europe challenge the status quo

Veronica Anghel

Major cities in Central Eastern Europe have elected liberal and progressive mayors. But, writes Veronica Anghel, socially conservative attitudes and voting patterns are unlikely to shift at national level across the region

January 29, 2021

Joe Biden will balance security interests and the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe

Veronica Anghel

Under the Biden administration, the EU stands to have an ally against authoritarian tendencies in some Central and Eastern European countries writes Veronica Anghel. But US involvement will not be transformative

Veronica Anghel

Assistant Professor, Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute / Co-Director, European Governance and Politics Programme, European University Institute

Veronica works at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations.

She studies European integration and EU enlargement at the nexus between security-building and democratisation.

She also investigates the role of the US and the transatlantic relationship in European integration.

In 2020, she was honoured with the inaugural ECPR Rising Star Award.

Veronica is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP), sits on the Executive Committee of the Council on European Studies (CES), and is a Comparative Politics Section Officer for the American Political Science Association (APSA).

Veronica's most recent publications include:

The Enlargement of International Organisations (2024)
West European Politics

The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War (2024)
Political Science Quarterly

What Went Wrong in Hungary (2024)
Journal of Democracy

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