The planned wave of European Union enlargement poses intricate challenges and opportunities to the EU and to candidate states, especially in the context of potential enlargement to war torn Ukraine. Drawing on the lessons from previous phases of EU enlargement, a transatlantic network of political scientists and political economists came together to contribute articles to a special issue that aims to scrutinise potential pitfalls, devise effective strategies, and foster a collaborative approach to imagine paths of success of the integration process.
The special issue, commissioned by the Journal of European Public Policy and edited by Veronica Anghel, Assistant Professor at the EUI Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, will provide the key research components for policy recommendations for the European Union’s enlargement agenda.
The special issue workshop, co-hosted by the EUI Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the CEU Democracy Institute, is part of a wider programme of the 'EU Enlargement Hub', a consortium built between the CEU Democracy Institute, the European University Institute, and the Kyiv School of Economics. The project also serves as a capacity-building initiative in Central and Eastern European countries, including Ukraine and the Western Balkan countries, and draws extensively on knowledge from the region through a targeted selection of diverse authors and discussants.
By invitation only.
This event is funded by the EUI Widening Europe Programme.
The EUI Widening Europe Programme initiative, backed by contributions from the European Union and EUI Contracting States, is designed to strengthen internationalisation, competitiveness, and quality in research in Widening countries, and thus foster a more cohesive European Higher Education and Research area.